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competitive-positioning

competitive-positioning is a skill for Claude Code from lool-ventures/founder-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (29,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A startup competition analysis skill that identifies competitors, compares their differences, and assesses how difficult those differences are to copy. A moat is an advantage that helps protect a business from competitors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a competitive landscape, positioning map, moat scorecard, and competition narrative for investor materials.
Why use it?
It helps founders replace vague claims about competition with a documented view of who else exists, where the product differs, and how defensible those differences are.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

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 founder-skills plugin — 6 skills, 1 command, 6 agents shipped together

not rated 33repo +1 changed 5d ago A scan 83 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to create a competitive landscape, positioning map, moat scorecard, and competition narrative for investor materials.

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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 lool-ventures/founder-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 6 agents.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 29,742 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 $0.00083 $0.29742
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.14871
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.05948
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.02974

Measured 5d ago against content hash e85838726e61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-positioning 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 15 executable files (scripts/_axis_compat.py, scripts/_dispatch_json.py, scripts/_theme.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

founder-skills/skills/competitive-positioning/SKILL.md · 1,398 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,398 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Positioning Skill

Help startup founders see their competitive landscape clearly — who the real competitors are, where they're differentiated, how defensible that differentiation is, and how to present it to investors. Produce a competitive analysis with positioning maps, moat scorecards, and an investor-ready narrative. The tone is founder-first: a coaching tool for preparation, not a judgment.

Skill Metadata

  • Author: lool-ventures
  • Version: managed in founder-skills/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
  • Compatibility: Python 3.10+ and uv for script execution.
  • Imports (optional):
    • deck-review:checklist.json — competition slide claims for cross-validation
    • market-sizing:sizing.json — validate market claims in positioning
  • Exports:
    • landscape.json → deck-review, fundraise-readiness
    • report.json → ic-sim, fundraise-readiness, cross-document-consistency

Skill Execution Model (READ FIRST)

See founder-skills/references/skill-execution-model.md for the full inline-skill execution model (3 dispatch contexts, Mitigation 1+2, producer contract, Cowork quirks, per-symptom triage).

This skill runs inline in the main thread, not as a sub-agent — see the reference above ("Why Inline (Not Forked Sub-Agent)") for the rationale. Sub-agents are deliberately shell-free, so orchestration (producer scripts, artifact persistence) stays in the main thread. Network note: this skill's Context A sub-agent declares WebSearch in its own tool allowlist and performs its own live competitor research (LANDSCAPE_RESEARCH, MOAT_SCORING, POSITIONING_SCORING) — the main thread does NOT need a research-before-dispatch pass; pass founder-provided context inline and let the sub-agent research.

Two dispatch contexts for the sub-agent:

  • Context A — Per-step analytical dispatch (Mitigation 1): Steps 4 (LANDSCAPE_RESEARCH), 5 (MOAT_SCORING + POSITIONING_SCORING), and 6 (CHECKLIST) dispatch the competitive-positioning agent via the Task tool. The agent does deep analysis (including its own WebSearch research), WRITES its output JSON to the OUTPUT_PATH given in its prompt (the handoff/ dir), and returns a small receipt. The main thread gates the file with check_handoff.py, then pipes it through the producer script (validate_landscape.py, score_moats.py, score_positioning.py, or checklist.py). The sub-agent never writes canonical artifacts — only its hand-off file.
  • Context B — Post-compose coaching dispatch: Step 7 dispatches the sub-agent after compose_report.py writes report.md. The sub-agent Reads the staged coaching_payload.json from the hand-off dir (Mitigation 2) — it does NOT read the full report.md — composes the coaching commentary, WRITES it to the OUTPUT_PATH hand-off file, and returns a small receipt. The main thread gates the file (check_handoff.py) and inserts it via the shared insert_coaching.py script (idempotency matrix, uuid-marker replacement, run_id-parity verification — all deterministic). See the reference above for the full Context B contract.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,398 lines

Files

What ships with it

19 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago Changed · +37 lines e85838726e61
  2. 9d ago First seen · 1,361 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 115fa56f4b81

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competitive-positioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository lool-ventures/founder-skills (33 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 29,742 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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