watch-competitors

watch-competitors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack. It costs 67 tokens per session (517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for tracking changes on competitor websites, including their homepages, pricing pages, and published updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
It captures messaging, plans, prices, features, and recent content, compares them with a saved baseline, reports changes with sources, and updates that baseline.
Why use it?
It shows what changed since the previous check instead of requiring someone to compare pages manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the competitor-watch plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onewave-ai/open-agent-stack/watch-competitors
Any agent
npx skills add OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack --skill watch-competitors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install competitor-watch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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 watch-competitors

README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 517 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.00517
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00052

Measured 5d ago against content hash e5e22274cd18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watch-competitors 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.

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.

plugins/competitor-watch/skills/watch-competitors/SKILL.md · 31 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Watch Competitors

Fetch the current state of competitor pages, diff against a stored baseline, report changes with sources, then update the baseline.

This skill requires web access. Use the built-in web search and fetch tools; no API key is needed.

Workflow

  1. Resolve the target list. Take competitor names or URLs from the user. For each name without a URL, search the web to find the canonical domain. Confirm the homepage, pricing page, and content surface (blog, changelog, or newsroom) for each.

  2. Load the baseline. Read references/baseline.json if it exists. If it is missing, treat this as a first run with no prior state and note that the report will be a baseline capture, not a diff.

  3. Capture current state. For each competitor, fetch the homepage, pricing page, and content surface. Record for each page: the headline messaging, listed plans and prices, plan features, and the titles and dates of the most recent content items. Keep the source URL for every captured fact.

  4. Diff against baseline. For each competitor, compare current state to the stored snapshot. Identify: pricing changes (amount, plan name, billing terms), new or removed plans, messaging or positioning shifts, new pages, removed pages, and newly published content since the last run.

  5. Report the diff. Produce a per-competitor summary. Lead with material changes (pricing, plans, launches), then secondary changes (messaging, content). Cite the source URL for each change. If nothing changed for a competitor, state that explicitly. On a first run, report the captured baseline instead.

  6. Update the baseline. Write the current captured state back to references/baseline.json so the next run diffs against it. Stamp each competitor entry with the capture date.

Notes

  • Always attach a source URL to every reported fact; never report a change you cannot point to.
  • Distinguish a real change from a page you simply could not reach. If a fetch fails, flag it as unverified rather than as a removal.
  • See references/baseline-schema.md for the baseline file structure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 31 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. 5d ago First seen · 31 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A e5e22274cd18

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watch-competitors is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneWave-AI/open-agent-stack (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 517 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.