competitive

competitive is a skill for Claude Code from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured comparison of competing products or approaches. It identifies direct competitors, indirect alternatives, substitutes—including doing nothing—and compares capabilities to find gaps and positioning opportunities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a market, compare products across important capabilities, and identify gaps in an offering’s position.
Why use it?
It replaces an informal competitor list with a consistent view of alternatives and where each one is strong or weak.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to map a market, compare products across important capabilities, and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/competitive
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 kazdenc/builder-skills --skill competitive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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 1,018 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 $0.01018
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 7d ago against content hash bb5db6cf4ebc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive 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 7d 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/product/discover/competitive/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Analysis

Work through these five steps in order. Each builds on the previous one.


Step 1 — Identify Competitors

Sort every competitor into one of three buckets:

Type Definition How to find them
Direct Solves the same job with a similar product Search the category name, check review sites, ask users "what else did you consider?"
Indirect Solves the same job with a different approach Ask "how did people do this before products like ours existed?"
Substitutes Competes for the same budget, time, or attention Ask "what would they do instead of solving this job at all?"

Include "do nothing" as a substitute — it is always the strongest competitor.

List 3–7 competitors. More than that dilutes focus.

Step 2 — Feature Comparison Matrix

Build a table. Rows are capabilities that matter to the job. Columns are competitors. Score each cell.

| Capability              | Us | Competitor A | Competitor B | Competitor C |
|------------------------|----|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| [capability 1]         | .. | ..          | ..          | ..          |
| [capability 2]         | .. | ..          | ..          | ..          |
| ...                    |    |             |             |             |

Scoring:

  • Strong — does this well, customers recognize it as a strength
  • Adequate — does it, no complaints, no praise
  • Weak — does it poorly or partially
  • Missing — doesn't do it at all

Pick capabilities from the user's perspective, not the feature list. "Quickly see what changed since yesterday" beats "activity feed" or "notification system."

Step 3 — Positioning Analysis

Plot competitors along the two dimensions that matter most for this market. Pick dimensions from the job, not from product attributes.

                        [Dimension A — high]
                              │
                              │    ○ Competitor B
                              │
  [Dimension B — low] ───────┼──────── [Dimension B — high]
                              │
              ○ Competitor A  │
                              │         ○ Competitor C
                        [Dimension A — low]

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 7d ago First seen · 112 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A bb5db6cf4ebc

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competitive is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (44 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,018 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.