category-opportunity-index

Category Opportunity Index

This skill answers a single question for one category on Mercado Livre (Brasil) or Shopee Brasil: is it worth entering? Given a marketplace and a category named in free text, it reads that category's opportunity index (low, medium, or high) and its current monthly market indicators — estimated revenue, estimated sales, sellers, listings, and average ticket — then writes a short summary, in the language the seller wrote in, that interprets the opportunity level together with how concentrated the market is and which way it is growing. On Mercado Livre the summary can also draw on a year of history and a seasonality read; on Shopee neither exists yet, and the report says so plainly instead of guessing.

This is a point-in-time snapshot, not a tracker. To rank the sellers inside a category, use the top-sellers-in-category skill. For the trending search terms shoppers use in a category, use the top-keywords-in-my-category skill. To compare a category's aggregates against a user-supplied previous snapshot, use the category-monitor skill. This skill answers "how attractive is this category right now?" for a category the user names.

Prerequisites

• JoomPulse MCP access is configured for the current agent environment.
• The user provides a marketplace — Mercado Livre (Brasil) or Shopee Brasil — and names the category to evaluate (free text is fine).
• The available JoomPulse tools can resolve a category name to a category on either marketplace and return that category's current monthly market indicators, plus — on Mercado Livre — its recent monthly history.

If JoomPulse MCP access is unavailable, stop and explain that the skill requires JoomPulse MCP setup before it can report a category's opportunity index.

Scope

• Mercado Livre (Brasil) and Shopee Brasil, one at a time. Other marketplaces are out of scope.
• Sales and revenue are JoomPulse estimates — not real transactions. The seller, listing, and average-ticket figures shown here are estimates too. Disclose this in every output. The estimates are built differently on each marketplace: on Mercado Livre from historical listing data, on Shopee from the marketplace's own rounded sold counters refined with review movement. Use the matching disclaimer.
• Read-only. The skill never writes or modifies anything.
• Language: write in the language of the message you are answering, and default to pt-BR only when that is unclear. Never infer the language from the store, its listings or the marketplace — those are Brazilian whatever language the seller writes in, so a seller who asks in English gets the whole report in English.
• Keep the workflow invisible. The seller wants the answer, not a play-by- play. If one approach does not return data, switch to another quietly; only if every approach fails do you say one short, friendly sentence. Never fill gaps from general knowledge, and never fabricate a number — show — when a value is missing.