competitive-battlecard

competitive-battlecard is a skill for Claude Code from Doris-Labs/sales-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deal-specific comparison guide for selling against a named competitor or alternative.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare rebuttals, evaluation questions, proof points, and a plan for addressing the competitor's strengths and weaknesses.
Why use it?
It replaces vague claims with an honest view of where each option fits, along with questions and evidence relevant to this buyer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sales-skills plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare rebuttals, evaluation questions, proof points, and a plan for addressing the competitor's strengths and weaknesses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doris-labs/sales-skills/competitive-battlecard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Doris-Labs/sales-skills --skill competitive-battlecard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Doris-Labs/sales-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sales-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,352 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.
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 $0.00076 $0.01352
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00676
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00135

Measured 12d ago against content hash 944fc96bdd81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-battlecard 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 12d 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.

skills/competitive-battlecard/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Battlecard

Purpose

Turn a competitive threat into a deal-specific plan: an honest read of where you genuinely win and where they genuinely win, landmines to set early, trap questions that expose their weakness, rebuttals to their likely claims, and the proof points that back each one. The goal is to shape the buyer's evaluation criteria before the competitor does — not to spin.

Inputs

  • The competitor's name (and edition/tier if known)
  • How the competitor surfaced (buyer mentioned, incumbent, RFP shortlist)
  • The deal context: stage, who's evaluating, their stated criteria and pains
  • Your real differentiators and your real gaps (be honest with yourself first)

Method

  1. Establish the honest baseline. Split the field into where we win and where they win. If you can't name a category where they legitimately beat you, you don't understand the competitor — and the buyer will smell the spin. Tie each side to this buyer's stated criteria, not a generic feature grid.
  2. Plant landmines early. A landmine is a criterion you seed into the buyer's evaluation that the competitor structurally fails. Plant it as a question the buyer should "make sure to ask any vendor," not as an attack. Set it while you still control the agenda — before the competitor's demo, not after.
  3. Build trap questions. A trap question is one the buyer asks the competitor that exposes a known weakness, where any honest answer hurts them. Frame it neutrally so it lands as due diligence, not a hit job.
  4. Prepare rebuttals to their likely claims. For each thing the competitor will say about you, write the reframe — acknowledge the grain of truth, then pivot to the dimension where you win. Never flatly deny a true claim; you lose credibility.
  5. Attach proof points. Every counter needs evidence: a customer story, a metric, a reference, a doc. A battlecard without proof is just opinion.

Battlecard output format:

Competitor: <name> (<edition/tier>)
Deal: <account> — <stage> — surfaced via <how>

THEIR STRENGTHS (honest)
- <real strength> → why it matters to THIS buyer

THEIR WEAKNESSES
- <real gap> → tied to <buyer criterion it threatens>

OUR COUNTERS
- <their weakness> → <our reframe / where we win> → proof: <evidence>

LANDMINES TO PLANT (early, before their demo)
- "Make sure to ask any vendor: <criterion they fail>"

TRAP QUESTIONS (for the buyer to ask them)
- "<neutral question>" → exposes <weakness>; any honest answer hurts them

REBUTTALS (when they attack us)
- They'll say: "<their claim>" → You say: "<acknowledge truth> + <pivot to win>"

PROOF POINTS
- <story / metric / reference / doc> → supports <which counter>

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 12d ago First seen · 113 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 944fc96bdd81

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competitive-battlecard is a skill published in the GitHub repository Doris-Labs/sales-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,352 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.