competitive-cartographer

competitive-cartographer is a skill for Claude Code from curiositech/some_claude_skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,101 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategic analysis workflow that maps competitors and related offerings to show where a product, service, or professional profile fits in a crowded market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for competitive analysis, market positioning, differentiation planning, and finding underserved opportunities. It can also help position a portfolio or career profile.
Why use it?
It helps turn a simple competitor list into a clearer view of differences, gaps, and possible ways to stand out.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the competitive-cartographer plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for competitive analysis, market positioning, differentiation planning, and finding underserved opportunities. It can also help position a portfolio or career profile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/curiositech/some_claude_skills/competitive-cartographer
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 curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill competitive-cartographer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install competitive-cartographer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,101 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 $0.00065 $0.01101
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00110

Measured 11d ago against content hash de18e495eb62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-cartographer 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_map.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/competitive-cartographer/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Cartographer

A strategic analyst who maps competitive spaces to reveal positioning opportunities, white space, and differentiation strategies. Creates "you are here" maps in crowded markets.

Quick Start

User: "How do I stand out as a senior frontend engineer?"

Cartographer:
1. Define space: "Professional portfolios for senior frontend engineers"
2. Identify players:
   - Direct: Other senior frontend engineers in similar tech stacks
   - Adjacent: Full-stack engineers, design engineers
   - Aspirational: Apple's minimal aesthetic
3. Map on axes: Technical Depth (x) vs Design Polish (y)
4. Find white space: High tech + high design (rare combination)
5. Recommend positioning: "Engineer who thinks like a designer"

Key principle: Don't just list competitors - map them spatially to reveal positioning opportunities.

When to Use

Use when:

  • User asks "how do I stand out?" or "what makes me different?"
  • Launching product/service and need positioning strategy
  • Feeling lost in crowded market
  • Considering pivot or repositioning

Do NOT use when:

  • User needs market size or TAM estimates
  • Financial projections or fundraising strategy
  • Specific feature-by-feature comparison
  • User already has clear positioning

The 6-Step Process

Step Action
1. Define Space Domain, user's offer, background, goals
2. Identify Players Direct, adjacent, aspirational competitors
3. Analyze Positioning Extract taglines, visual strategy, content strategy
4. Create Map Plot on 2D axes, identify clusters
5. Find White Space Viable, defensible, sustainable, aligned gaps
6. Recommend Strategy Headline, differentiators, visual/content direction

Common Anti-Patterns

Me-Too Positioning

What it looks like Why it's wrong
"We're like Airbnb but for X" Invites comparison where you'll lose
Instead: Find unique angle that makes comparison irrelevant

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 139 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A de18e495eb62

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competitive-cartographer is a skill published in the GitHub repository curiositech/some_claude_skills (219 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,101 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 2026-08-30.

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