competitive-analysis

competitive-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 206 tokens per session (1,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison of a plugin with an outside tool, plugin, feature set, or idea. It identifies differences and drafts possible improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing products or plugins, finding capability gaps, and writing rough specifications for closing them.
Why use it?
It makes missing or weaker capabilities visible instead of evaluating the plugin in isolation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Comparing products or plugins, finding capability gaps, and writing rough specifications for closing them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/competitive-analysis
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team --skill competitive-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for competitive-analysis

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/competitive-analysis/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/competitive-analysis)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for competitive-analysis

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 206 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,830 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00206 $0.01830
Opus 5.5 $0.00082 $0.00732
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00183

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4ba69568f67b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev-team/skills/competitive-analysis/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Analysis

Overview

Systematic comparison of the dev-team plugin against another plugin, tool, feature set, or idea. The goal is to surface gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities — then produce rough specs for closing each gap.

This skill is analytical first, generative second. It catalogs what both sides offer, identifies where dev-team falls short, and then drafts actionable specs for each gap. The analysis should be honest — if the other plugin does something better, say so plainly.

Input Sources

The comparison target can come in several forms. Determine which applies and gather the data accordingly:

Source How to gather
URL (repo, docs, marketplace) Fetch the URL. Look for README, CLAUDE.md, plugin manifests, agent/skill/command directories. If the repo is large, focus on the manifest, README, and directory listing first.
Local path Read the directory structure, then key files (README, CLAUDE.md, manifests, agent/skill dirs).
Pasted description or feature list Use as-is. Ask clarifying questions only if the description is too vague to compare against.
Concept or idea Treat as a hypothetical plugin with the described capabilities. Note in the report that the comparison is against an idea, not a shipped product.

Analysis Framework

Step 1: Catalog dev-team

Read knowledge/agent-registry.md for the full inventory. Organize into these capability layers:

  • Team agents — roles and primary focus areas
  • Review agents — what code quality aspects are covered
  • Skills — reusable knowledge modules
  • Commands — user-invocable workflows
  • Templates — language/framework-specific scaffolding
  • Knowledge files — progressive-disclosure reference data
  • Hooks — automated guards and triggers
  • Workflows — multi-phase orchestration (Research → Plan → Implement)

Step 2: Catalog the comparison target

Map the other plugin's capabilities into the same layers where possible. Not every plugin will have all layers — that's fine. For capabilities that don't map cleanly, create an "Other" category and describe them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 192 lines · 206 tokens per session scan A 4ba69568f67b

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competitive-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 206 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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