competitor-alternatives

competitor-alternatives is a skill for Claude Code from MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli. It costs 200 tokens per session (3,311 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating search pages that compare competing products or list alternatives. SEO is the practice of making pages easier for search engines to understand and rank.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create “X vs Y” pages or “X alternatives” pages. It helps research competitors, write comparisons, and add FAQ and list metadata for search engines.
Why use it?
It organizes comparison information for people already choosing between products. It also uses competitor research and structured page data to support comparison and alternatives searches.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./campaigns/comparisons/.

Part of the marketing-cli plugin — 88 skills, 9 commands, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to create “X vs Y” pages or “X alternatives” pages. It helps research competitors, write comparisons, and add FAQ and list metadata for search engines.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moizibnyousaf/marketing-cli/competitor-alternatives

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 88 skills, 9 commands, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 200 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,311 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00200 $0.03311
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.01656
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00662
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00331

Measured 9d ago against content hash ef189826aaf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-alternatives 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 9d 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.

skills/competitor-alternatives/SKILL.md · 334 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Alternatives Pages

Purpose

People searching "[Competitor] alternatives" or "[Product] vs [Competitor]" have high purchase intent. They already know the category — they're choosing. This skill captures that traffic with structured comparison content that ranks and converts.

On Activation

  1. Read brand/ directory: load competitors.md, positioning.md, voice-profile.md, audience.md if present.
  2. Show what loaded:

Backend Selection

Prefer OpenSEO find_serp_competitors / get_serp_results and openseo-competitor-analysis findings when configured; otherwise Exa SERP scrape with overlap unknown. Full contract: skills/openseo/references/backend-contract.md.

Brand context loaded:
├── Competitors    ✓/✗  ({N} competitors profiled)
├── Positioning    ✓/✗  ("{primary angle}")
├── Voice Profile  ✓/✗
└── Audience       ✓/✗
  1. If competitors.md is missing: suggest running /competitive-intel first, or ask user to provide competitor names, pricing, and key differentiators.
  2. If positioning.md is missing: ask for the product's primary value prop and target audience.
  3. Ask which competitors to create pages for (or "all" from competitors.md).
  4. Read brand/landscape.md if it exists — check the Claims Blacklist before making ecosystem or competitive claims. If stale (>14 days) or missing, warn that market claims may be outdated.

Reads

  • brand/competitors.md — Known competitors, their positioning, pricing, weaknesses
  • brand/positioning.md — Your product's unique value props, differentiators, target audience
  • brand/voice-profile.md — Tone for comparison copy
  • brand/audience.md — Who is choosing between you and competitors

Depends On

  • competitive-intel — Should have competitor research completed first (not hard-blocked — can proceed with user-provided data)

Workflow

Step 1: Identify Comparison Queries

Pull from competitors.md and generate the full keyword set:

  • [competitor] alternatives (highest volume)
  • [competitor] vs [your product] (branded)
  • [your product] vs [competitor] (branded reverse)
  • best [category] tools (category)
  • [competitor] review (review intent)
  • [competitor] pricing (price-sensitive)

Read the full file on GitHub · 334 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 334 lines · 200 tokens per session scan A ef189826aaf9

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competitor-alternatives is a skill published in the GitHub repository MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli (31 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 200 tokens to every session and 3,311 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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