Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add ashermahonin/agentic-skills --skill competitive-analysisgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashermahonin/agentic-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashermahonin/agentic-skills/competitive-analysis)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ashermahonin/agentic-skills/competitive-analysis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ashermahonin/agentic-skills/competitive-analysis.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00066 | $0.00392 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00196 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00078 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00039 |
Grade A, and why
competitive-analysis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Competitive Analysis
Purpose
Prevent the team from building in a vacuum. Compare the proposed product against real alternatives and translate that comparison into product choices, not generic market commentary.
Inputs
- Define the comparison category: direct competitors, substitutes, internal tools, manual workflows, or adjacent products.
- Pick comparison criteria that matter to the target user.
- Separate table-stakes features from differentiators.
- Name the positioning question the analysis must answer.
Decision process
- Build a short list of alternatives with why each matters.
- Compare them on user workflow, capability, pricing, trust, onboarding, integrations, and switching cost when relevant.
- Call out gaps and over-served areas.
- Identify a wedge: the narrow reason this product should exist first.
- Translate findings into scope recommendations and product risks.
Decision boundaries
- Use Context7 MCP for current library, framework, platform, API, CLI, and configuration documentation whenever the task depends on external technology behavior.
Decision record
- Alternative list
- Feature and workflow matrix
- Differentiation notes
- Opportunity and risk summary
- Scope recommendations
Ready when
- Do not confuse feature count with product strength.
- Prefer user workflow comparison over marketing-copy comparison.
- Call out uncertainty when evidence is thin.
- End with decisions the next skill can use.
Handoff
Hand off the wedge, table stakes, differentiators, and scope cautions to requirements and architecture.
References
references/matrix.md: Use this matrix format for competitor or alternative analysis.
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 7d ago First seen · 53 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 288e2442b3ba
competitive-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashermahonin/agentic-skills (10 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 392 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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