Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add bromso/metapowers/plugin install marketingWrote 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/bromso/metapowers/competitor-alternatives)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bromso/metapowers/competitor-alternatives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bromso/metapowers/competitor-alternatives/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bromso/metapowers/competitor-alternatives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bromso/metapowers/competitor-alternatives.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00072 | $0.00681 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00029 | $0.00272 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00136 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
competitor-alternatives scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Competitor Alternatives
Develop "vs" comparison and "alternatives to" content strategy for "$ARGUMENTS". Create positioning frameworks that highlight differentiation against specific competitors.
Arguments. $ARGUMENTS may contain the project name and optional flags. Take the first token as <project> and treat --skip-checks as a flag; never include flags in file paths. All paths below use <project>. If --skip-checks is present, skip the prerequisite check and, before writing any artifact, append one line to .metapowers/marketing/<project>/skip-log.md: - <ISO timestamp> — <skill name> skipped prerequisite check for <artifact file> — reason: <reason or "none given">.
Prerequisites
Read .metapowers/marketing/<project>/00-strategy.md. If this file does not exist or lacks a ## Competitor Analysis section, suggest running /marketing:competitor-profiling <project> first.
Process
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Read context:
- Read
.metapowers/marketing/<project>/00-strategy.mdfor competitor profiles and positioning - Read
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/race-framework-guide.mdfor methodology reference
- Read
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Identify high-value comparison targets:
- Use WebSearch to find which competitor comparisons have search volume
- Prioritize competitors that share the most audience overlap
- Identify "alternatives to [competitor]" search opportunities
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Build comparison frameworks:
- For each target competitor, create a feature comparison matrix
- Identify the 3-5 key differentiators (where "" wins)
- Note honest areas where competitors are stronger (builds credibility)
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Draft positioning angles:
- For each competitor: one-sentence "why switch" message
- Category-level "alternatives" positioning
- Objection handling for each competitor's strengths
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Write the artifact — append to
.metapowers/marketing/<project>/00-strategy.mdunder a## Competitor Alternativessection. Create the file with a# Strategy — <project>heading if it does not exist; if a## Competitor Alternativessection already exists, replace only that section. The section contains:- Comparison Targets — ranked by opportunity
- Comparison Matrices — feature-by-feature for top competitors
- Positioning Angles — per-competitor messaging
- Content Recommendations — what pages/posts to create
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 50 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 98686a84ef6a
competitor-alternatives is a skill published in the GitHub repository bromso/metapowers (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 681 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-21.
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