competitor-research

competitor-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter. It costs 44 tokens per session (223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for comparing three to five competitors for a product or feature. It gathers how they position themselves, who they target, their public pricing, strengths, weaknesses, and market gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a product idea, compare competing services, review market positioning, and identify an underserved price point or positioning angle.
Why use it?
It saves you from collecting competitor information in scattered notes and makes comparisons easier to review. It also highlights opportunities that competitors may be missing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/competitor-research
Any agent
npx skills add hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter --skill competitor-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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-research

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/competitor-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/competitor-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 223 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00044 $0.00223
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00022

Measured 5d ago against content hash ef253e97f23f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-research 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.

.claude/skills/competitor-research/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Ask the user: "What product or feature are you researching? Who is it for?"

Then research 3–5 direct competitors using web search. For each competitor return:

[Competitor Name]

  • Positioning: one sentence on how they describe themselves
  • Target customer: who they're built for
  • Pricing: tiers and price points if public
  • Key differentiators: 2–3 things they do well
  • Weaknesses: 1–2 gaps or complaints from reviews/forums

After all competitors, add a Gap Analysis section:

  • What no competitor does well
  • Where pricing is underserved
  • One positioning angle that is unclaimed

Keep each competitor to 6 bullet points max. No padding. End with one sharp question: "Based on this, which gap are you trying to own?"

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 · 23 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ef253e97f23f

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competitor-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter (139 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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