market-landscape

market-landscape is a skill for Claude Code from Lab2A/metalworks. It costs 149 tokens per session (930 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that maps competitors, alternative solutions, and the cost of doing nothing for a finished demand report. It also scans real products already available through sources such as Product Hunt and the web.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a competitor map, find adjacent alternatives, document status-quo costs, scan launched products, and match each finding to supporting evidence.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish an unmet need from a problem that existing products already address, while linking gaps to real user complaints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the metalworks plugin — 22 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a competitor map, find adjacent alternatives, document status-quo costs, scan launched products, and match each finding to supporting evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lab2a/metalworks/market-landscape
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 Lab2A/metalworks --skill market-landscape
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lab2A/metalworks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install metalworks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 930 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 $0.00149 $0.00930
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00465
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00093

Measured 10d ago against content hash 718140c7d590, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-landscape 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.

plugin/skills/market-landscape/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preamble (run first)

Before any other tool, run the preflight MCP tool (or metalworks preflight on the CLI). If it reports setup issues or that an update is available, surface that to the user in one line and help them resolve it (install the missing extra/key, or pip install -U metalworks) before continuing. Skip only if the user has already passed preflight this session.

Read the reference; never reverse-engineer the source. The moment you need to know how metalworks behaves — provider/model resolution, which source/reader runs, config precedence, an error you hit, or the async run loop — STOP and read docs/operating-metalworks.md (bundled with this plugin) before opening any file under src/. It is the source of truth; do not derive behavior from source. (Full docs: https://metalworks.lab2a.ai/docs.) For a long-running run, poll status with the Monitor tool or a bounded loop — never a blind sleep.

You are mapping the full supply side for one idea — not just the named rivals, but the real products people can already get today — so the demand can be weighed against what exists. Unlike a generic competitor grid, every gap points to a real complaint and every listed product is matched to a real demand cluster.

Steps

  1. Get the report_id. No report yet → run /demand-report first; the landscape stands on the report's clusters and quotes.

  2. Call the landscape_from_report MCP tool with the report_id (or, on the CLI, metalworks research landscape <report_id>). It runs the grounded competitor map AND pulls real shipped products (Product Hunt by default), keeping only those that map to a demand cluster.

  3. Present the landscape honestly, in two parts:

    • Competitors — lead with the status-quo "doing nothing" alternative (its gaps are the report's strongest pains, each backed verbatim); then each competitor with its strengths and cited gaps (severity is computed from how many people voiced the complaint). Resolve each gap's EvidenceRef and show the permalink.
    • Existing solutions — the real products already shipped, each with its traction (e.g. Product Hunt votes) and the demand cluster it addresses. These are empirical, not enumerated — a product only appears if its pitch matched a real cluster.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 718140c7d590

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market-landscape is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lab2A/metalworks (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 930 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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