market-research

market-research is a skill for Claude Code from ne11nn/cantos-plugin. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured process for researching markets, competitors, and target audiences using information from the web.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before entering a market, launching a product, comparing competitors, understanding an audience, or testing a business idea.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered research with a repeatable way to assess market size, trends, customers, opportunities, and risks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cantos plugin — 25 skills, 2 commands, 11 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before entering a market, launching a product, comparing competitors, understanding an audience, or testing a business idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ne11nn/cantos-plugin/market-research
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 ne11nn/cantos-plugin --skill market-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ne11nn/cantos-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cantos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 2 commands, 11 agents, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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 $0.00032 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00157

Measured 9d ago against content hash 516e6c1f1827, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-research 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/market-research/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Research Skill

A comprehensive market research methodology that leverages web search to gather real market data, analyze competitors, and synthesize actionable insights.

When to Use

  • Researching a new market or industry
  • Analyzing competitors before product launch
  • Understanding target audience demographics and behaviors
  • Identifying market opportunities and gaps
  • Assessing risks before market entry
  • Validating business ideas or product concepts

Research Framework

Phase 1: Market Overview

Gather high-level market intelligence:

Market Size & Growth:

  • Total addressable market (TAM)
  • Serviceable addressable market (SAM)
  • Market growth rate (CAGR)
  • Key market segments

Industry Trends:

  • Recent industry developments
  • Emerging technologies
  • Regulatory changes
  • Economic factors

Data Sources:

  • Industry reports (Statista, IBISWorld, Grand View Research)
  • News articles and press releases
  • Government statistics
  • Trade publications

Phase 2: Target Audience Analysis

Profile the ideal customer:

Factor Analysis Points
Demographics Age, location, income, education, occupation
Psychographics Values, interests, lifestyle, attitudes
Needs Pain points, desires, unmet needs
Behaviors Purchase patterns, channels, decision factors
Segments High-potential customer groups

Research Methods:

  • Search for industry consumer studies
  • Analyze social media discussions
  • Review competitor customer bases
  • Identify buying triggers and barriers

Phase 3: Competitor Landscape

Map the competitive environment:

Competitor Identification:

  • Direct competitors (same product/market)
  • Indirect competitors (different approach, same need)
  • Potential entrants (adjacent markets)

Analysis Framework:

Competitor Market Position Strengths Weaknesses Recent Moves
[Name] [Leader/Challenger/Niche] [List] [List] [News]

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 230 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 516e6c1f1827

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market-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository ne11nn/cantos-plugin (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,566 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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