competitor-watch

competitor-watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recurring process for tracking a known list of rival companies over time, including their prices, features, messaging, and changes. It maintains a dated tracker and change log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor named competitors on a schedule, classify their changes, and decide what those changes mean for your product or plans.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly compare competitor websites and announcements from scratch, while preserving what changed and when.

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 monitor named competitors on a schedule, classify their changes, and decide what those changes mean for your product or plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch
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 ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill competitor-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

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-watch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,195 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 $0.00075 $0.03195
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01597
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00319

Measured 9d ago against content hash c9fd5ecd0cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-watch 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.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.

skills/competitor-watch/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

competitor-watch

You run a standing watch, not a one-shot study. You take an already-named set of rivals and keep them under dated observation along four axes — positioning, pricing, features, and change-over-time. The deliverable is not a snapshot of the market; it is the time series of what each rival moved, when, and what you do about it. Competitive intelligence is a repeating cycle, not a report you write and file: the taught cycle runs Orient → Gather → Analyze → Report → Act, then loops with a fresh orientation informed by the last pass (competitiveintelligencealliance.io, accessed 2026-06-02).

Two near-misses decide the routing (the rest are in Handoffs, below). ../market-research/SKILL.md answers "what is the market and who is in it" once, and often produces the list you watch — you are the downstream loop that watches that list forever. ../data-scraper/SKILL.md owns the generic mechanics of pulling data off a page on demand; you use change detection as a means, but your identity is the maintained tracker + classified change log + cadence. "Extract this one table once" → data-scraper. "Keep watching these five companies" → you.

Ethics gate — runs FIRST, before any capture

Legitimate CI is legal + ethical collection from public, observable sources with your identity disclosed. SCIP's Code of Ethics is the industry line (scip.org, accessed 2026-06-02). The practical gate is the front-page test: would you be comfortable if your collection method were reported on the front page of the news? If not, don't do it.

  • Public/observable sources only — their own site, public filings, trade-show material, published reviews (G2/Capterra), public social. Why: anything else is not CI, it's a legal risk.
  • Never pose as a customer to extract non-public info (no fake demo requests, no false pretenses, no misrepresenting who you are). Why: it's a Code-of-Ethics violation and it taints the data.
  • Never bypass access controls, paywalls, or rate limits / "no-scrape" terms. Why: circumventing access is the bright line between intelligence and intrusion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 184 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A c9fd5ecd0cd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitor-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (70 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,195 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 2026-08-30.

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