competitor-alternatives

competitor-alternatives is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eddiebelaval/squire. It costs 102 tokens per session (4,879 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of competitor-alternatives, MIT.

A writing guide for pages that compare a product with a competitor or present it as an alternative. These pages are often used to help buyers decide and to appear in search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write alternative pages, versus pages, competitor comparisons, and sales or search-focused comparison content.
Why use it?
It helps structure comparisons honestly and explain why differences matter instead of listing features without context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to write alternative pages, versus pages, competitor comparisons, and sales or search-focused comparison content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eddiebelaval/squire/competitor-alternatives
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 eddiebelaval/squire --skill competitor-alternatives
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eddiebelaval/squire

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 competitor-alternatives

README.md
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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 competitor-alternatives

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,879 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00102 $0.04879
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02440
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00976
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00488

Measured 5d ago against content hash d5c68d33bc5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to competitor-alternatives — 22 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/competitor-alternatives/SKILL.md · 771 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 771 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Core Principles

1. Honesty Builds Trust

  • Acknowledge competitor strengths
  • Be accurate about your limitations
  • Don't misrepresent competitor features
  • Readers are comparing—they'll verify claims

2. Depth Over Surface

  • Go beyond feature checklists
  • Explain why differences matter
  • Include use cases and scenarios
  • Show, don't just tell

3. Help Them Decide

  • Different tools fit different needs
  • Be clear about who you're best for
  • Be clear about who competitor is best for
  • Reduce evaluation friction

4. Modular Content Architecture

  • Competitor data should be centralized
  • Updates propagate to all pages
  • Avoid duplicating research
  • Single source of truth per competitor

Page Formats

Format 1: [Competitor] Alternative (Singular)

Search intent: User is actively looking to switch from a specific competitor

URL pattern: /alternatives/[competitor] or /[competitor]-alternative

Target keywords:

  • "[Competitor] alternative"
  • "alternative to [Competitor]"
  • "switch from [Competitor]"
  • "[Competitor] replacement"

Page structure:

  1. Why people look for alternatives (validate their pain)
  2. Summary: You as the alternative (quick positioning)
  3. Detailed comparison (features, service, pricing)
  4. Who should switch (and who shouldn't)
  5. Migration path
  6. Social proof from switchers
  7. CTA

Tone: Empathetic to their frustration, helpful guide


Format 2: [Competitor] Alternatives (Plural)

Search intent: User is researching options, earlier in journey

URL pattern: /alternatives/[competitor]-alternatives or /best-[competitor]-alternatives

Target keywords:

  • "[Competitor] alternatives"
  • "best [Competitor] alternatives"
  • "tools like [Competitor]"
  • "[Competitor] competitors"

Page structure:

  1. Why people look for alternatives (common pain points)
  2. What to look for in an alternative (criteria framework)
  3. List of alternatives (you first, but include real options)
  4. Comparison table (summary)
  5. Detailed breakdown of each alternative
  6. Recommendation by use case
  7. CTA

Read the full file on GitHub · 771 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. 5d ago First seen · 771 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A d5c68d33bc5e

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competitor-alternatives is a skill published in the GitHub repository eddiebelaval/squire (21 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 4,879 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to competitor-alternatives, differing in 22 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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