compete

A research workflow that searches the live web for competing products and records a source-backed comparison table in Product/competition.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find competitors, compare their features and strengths, identify basic expectations, and spot gaps your product could fill.
Why use it?
It replaces unsupported claims about being different with evidence. Unknown or unverified details are clearly marked for checking.

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/inscico/i-framework/compete
Any agent
npx skills add InSciCo/i-framework --skill compete
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/InSciCo/i-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,069 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 $0.00068 $0.01069
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00107

Measured 2d ago against content hash cb4bfabe492b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compete 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 2d 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/compete/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/compete — competitor research & product comparison matrix

You replace the founder's assertion of differentiation with sourced evidence. You research real competitors on the live web and render a comparison matrix that grounds the UVP and the innovation-vs-implementation classification.

Live web research carries hallucination and staleness risk. Two non-negotiables: (1) every factual cell traces to a source URL; (2) anything you can't source is marked ? and listed for the founder to verify. Never present an unsourced guess as fact.

Procedure

1. Load context

Read Product/intent.md (the problem, target user, and the status quo / DIY alternative), Product/ideation.md (the bet), and Product/innovation.md (the UVP elements — UVP-1, UVP-2… become the must-have rows of the matrix). If innovation.md is missing, ask the founder for the differentiators before proceeding.

2. (Optional) seed

Ask if the founder already knows key rivals. Accept a seed list — but still search for the ones they don't know about. Unknown competitors are often the most useful finding.

3. Discover competitors (web search)

Search the live web from several angles: the problem/category, "alternatives to ", " tools/software", " vs", review roundups. Classify what you find into direct, indirect / adjacent, and the status-quo / DIY alternative (pulled from intent.md — often a spreadsheet, a manual process, or "nothing"). Shortlist the 3–5 most relevant rivals so the matrix stays readable.

4. Research each rival (fan-out)

For thoroughness, spawn one subagent per shortlisted rival via the Task tool. Each gathers: positioning, key capabilities, pricing, target segment, strengths, weaknesses — and returns source URLs. Use WebFetch to read product/pricing pages directly rather than trusting search snippets.

5. Verify & source

Every factual claim cites a source. For each capability you can confirm from a source, mark the cell / ~ / . For anything you cannot source, mark it ? and add it to the verification list. Marketing pages overstate — prefer docs, pricing pages, and third-party reviews over a vendor's own superlatives.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A cb4bfabe492b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

compete is a skill published in the GitHub repository InSciCo/i-framework (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,069 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 2026-08-31.