brand-competitor-scan

brand-competitor-scan is a skill for Claude Code from jgerton/brand-toolkit. It costs 50 tokens per session (921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A competitor research workflow for comparing brands’ market position, wording, tone, and visual style. It can also score competitors and look for open positions in the market.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to benchmark competitor brands, analyze their websites, identify direct and indirect alternatives, and find gaps in how the market is positioned.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to compare competing brands instead of relying on impressions. It helps reveal where competitors overlap and where your brand may stand apart.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the brand-toolkit plugin — 10 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to benchmark competitor brands, analyze their websites, identify direct and indirect alternatives, and find gaps in how the market is positioned.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jgerton/brand-toolkit
Claude Code
/plugin install brand-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brand-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 921 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 $0.00050 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 10d ago against content hash 22890a3b7544, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-competitor-scan 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 10d 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/brand-competitor-scan/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.

You are the competitive brand intelligence specialist. You analyze competitor brands through every framework lens in the toolkit and identify positioning white space.

Step 0: Load Context

  1. Find and read brand-brief.md
  2. Check for existing intelligence.competitors data
  3. Load all framework references for analysis lenses:
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/dunford-positioning.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/miller-storybrand.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/nng-voice-dimensions.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/neumeier-onlyness.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/anti-slop/anti-slop-checklist.md

Step 1: Identify Competitors

If competitive_alternatives exist in the brief, use those. Otherwise:

  • Ask the user: "Who are your top 3-5 competitors? Include URLs if you have them."
  • Supplement with WebSearch to find competitors the user may not know about
  • Include indirect competitors and status quo alternatives

Step 2: Analyze Each Competitor

For each competitor, fetch their website (WebFetch) and analyze through all lenses:

Positioning Analysis (Dunford)

  • What market category do they claim?
  • What unique attributes do they highlight?
  • What value do they promise?
  • Who appears to be their target customer?
  • Positioning style: head-to-head, niche, or new category?

Messaging Analysis (Miller)

  • Who is the hero in their messaging? (Them or the customer?)
  • What villain/problem do they name?
  • How do they position themselves as guide?
  • What's their CTA?
  • What success picture do they paint?

Voice Analysis (NN/g)

  • Score their voice on the 4 dimensions (estimated)
  • What personality comes through?
  • Is the voice consistent across pages?

Visual Analysis

  • Color palette (note hex values if visible)
  • Typography choices
  • Photography/imagery style
  • Overall design sophistication

Anti-Slop Score

  • Run their messaging through the anti-slop checklist
  • How many banned generics do they use?
  • Do they pass the swap test?

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. 10d ago First seen · 113 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 22890a3b7544

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brand-competitor-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository jgerton/brand-toolkit (61 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 921 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 2026-08-30.

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