competitor-monitoring

competitor-monitoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,308 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of competitor-monitoring, MIT.

A recurring process for watching competitors' public activity, such as price changes, new features, hiring, funding, and public mentions. It is ongoing monitoring rather than a one-time comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up weekly or biweekly competitor checks and produce updates about pricing, products, hiring, funding, content, or market positioning.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to check many competitor websites and updates manually. Regular scans can reveal strategic changes earlier.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to set up weekly or biweekly competitor checks and produce updates about pricing, products, hiring, funding, content, or market positioning.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring
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 Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills --skill competitor-monitoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for competitor-monitoring

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for competitor-monitoring

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/competitor-monitoring.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,308 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00059 $0.01308
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00131

Measured 12d ago against content hash 842186eff2d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-monitoring 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to competitor-monitoring — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/competitor-monitoring/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Monitoring

When to Use

  • Founder wants to know when competitors change pricing, ship features, or raise funding
  • Founder wants a recurring "what changed this week" scan of competitor activity
  • Founder wants to detect strategic shifts from competitor job postings, blog posts, or product updates
  • Founder wants to stay informed without manually checking 10 websites daily

This is the recurring sibling of competitive-analysis (one-time deep dive). Use this skill for ongoing monitoring, not initial research.

Context Required

  • List of 3-7 competitors to track (names, websites, product URLs)
  • What the founder cares about most (pricing, features, positioning, hiring, funding, content)
  • Monitoring frequency (weekly recommended for early-stage, biweekly for established markets)
  • The founder's own positioning (to flag threats and opportunities)

Workflow

  1. Define the monitoring surface — for each competitor, identify what to watch:
    • Pricing page — plan changes, new tiers, free plan adjustments
    • Changelog / release notes — new features, deprecations, platform shifts
    • Job postings — engineering roles signal product direction, sales roles signal GTM shifts, exec hires signal strategy changes
    • Blog / content — new positioning, case studies (reveal target customers), thought leadership pivots
    • Social media — founder posts, company announcements, community reactions
    • Review sites — new reviews on G2, Capterra, Trustpilot (sentiment shifts)
    • Funding / press — Crunchbase alerts, press releases, media coverage
  2. Set up the monitoring stack — recommend tools and manual checks:
    • Automated: Google Alerts (brand mentions), Visualping or ChangeTower (page change detection), Crunchbase alerts (funding), LinkedIn job alerts
    • Manual weekly scan: pricing pages, changelogs, recent blog posts, latest job postings
    • Quarterly deep dive: full competitive-analysis refresh
  3. Run the scan — check all sources for the monitoring period and flag changes.
  4. Analyze signals — for each change detected:
    • What changed (factual description)
    • What it signals (interpretation — are they moving upmarket? entering your segment? struggling with churn?)
    • Threat level (none / watch / respond / urgent)
    • Recommended action (if any)
  5. Generate the report — produce a concise weekly/biweekly competitor intel brief.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 12d ago First seen · 119 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 842186eff2d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitor-monitoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,308 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to competitor-monitoring, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

top-design

Create award-winning, immersive web experiences at the level of Awwwards-featured agencies. Use when the user mentions "Awwwards quality", "make my site stunning", "scroll animations", "parallax storytelling", "cinematic web design", "portfolio site", or "brand experience". Also trigger when elevating a standard…

wondelai/skills · 113 tokens

traction-eos

Implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to align vision and execution across a company. Use when the user mentions "EOS", "Entrepreneurial Operating System", "V/TO", "quarterly rocks", "Level 10 meetings", "accountability chart", "IDS process", "my company feels chaotic", "we keep having the same…

wondelai/skills · 147 tokens

create-site

Creates a new Power Pages code site (SPA) using React, Angular, Vue, or Astro. Guides through the full process from initial concept to deployed site: requirements discovery, scaffolding, component planning, design, implementation, validation, and deployment. Use when the user wants to create, build, or scaffold a new…

microsoft/power-platform-skills · 73 tokens

configure-env-variables

Configures environment variables for Power Pages site settings to support ALM across environments. Creates environment variable definitions in Dataverse, guides the user through linking site settings to those variables via the Power Pages Management app, adds the variables to the solution, and generates a…

microsoft/power-platform-skills · 119 tokens

create-business

Guided journey from raw idea to a validated, positioned, priced business with a chosen beachhead. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - jobs-to-be-done, mom-test, design-sprint, lean-startup, good-strategy-bad-strategy, blue-ocean-strategy, obviously-awesome, hundred-million-offers, monetizing-innovation…

wondelai/skills · 211 tokens

influence-psychology

Apply the seven principles of ethical persuasion (reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, unity) to product design, copy, and sales. Use when the user mentions "social proof", "persuasive copy", "why users dont convert", "ethical persuasion", "reciprocity", "scarcity tactics", "commitment…

wondelai/skills · 156 tokens