merch-research

merch-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

E-commerce product research for judging whether a product or category is worth investigating further. It covers demand, competitors, prices, possible profit, sourcing risks, compliance, and evidence gaps across Amazon and Chinese shopping platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare products or categories, map competitors and price bands, estimate profit, assess sourcing and compliance risks, and plan the next validation steps.
Why use it?
It helps separate supported findings from estimates and unknowns before time or money is committed. It also highlights risks that may make a product unsuitable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare products or categories, map competitors and price bands, estimate profit, assess sourcing and compliance risks, and plan the next validation steps.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-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 Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills --skill merch-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills

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 merch-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-research/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-research/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 merch-research

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/merch-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,079 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 $0.00035 $0.01079
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured 12d ago against content hash c061dbe303ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

merch-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 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.

ecommerce/skills/merch-research/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

商品选品研究

用于电商商品的前置研究和选品判断。核心任务是帮助用户判断“这个商品/类目是否值得继续验证”,并把数据来源、估算口径、风险和下一步验证说清楚。

何时使用

  • 用户提供 Amazon keyword、category、ASIN、brand 或竞品材料,希望做类目机会、竞品、价格、评论痛点或选品可行性分析。
  • 用户要研究淘宝、天猫、京东、拼多多、抖音、快手、1688、小红书等国内平台的商品机会。
  • 用户要设计价格对比表、竞品字段、利润测算、采集计划或选品报告。
  • 用户已有手动整理的数据、后台导出或合法 API 结果,希望形成经营判断。

不用于商品页面文案、主图/视频创意、评论 VOC 深度归因、下单采购、广告投放或自动平台抓取。

如何调用

  1. 先确认研究对象:商品、关键词、类目、平台、站点、价格带、目标市场、卖家能力、预算、供应链条件和已有数据。
  2. 判断路径:
    • Amazon 市场/ASIN/类目研究:使用 references/amazon-market-research.md
    • 国内平台选品/价格/供应链研究:使用 references/china-platform-research.md
  3. 明确数据来源:用户上传、平台后台导出、手动摘录、公开页面、授权 API、第三方数据源。来源不足时标为待验证。
  4. 不默认自动抓取平台;如用户要求采集,先说明平台条款、登录、频率、授权和反爬风险。
  5. 若使用 APIClaw,必须检查 APICLAW_API_KEY 和额度;缺失时不请求数据,只说明需要凭证、用途和成本风险。
  6. 进行需求、竞争、价格带、评价壁垒、差异化、利润、供应链、合规和售后风险分析。
  7. 对每个结论标注证据类型:直接数据、推断、建议或待验证。使用 references/data-provenance-and-confidence.md
  8. 输出报告结构时使用 references/product-research-output.md

返回格式

  • 调研目标和数据来源。
  • 市场需求与价格带。
  • 竞争格局、评价壁垒和差异化机会。
  • 利润测算框架和供应链风险。
  • 平台/类目合规与售后风险。
  • 数据来源、置信标签和待验证项。
  • 结论:推荐 / 观察 / 暂缓。
  • 下一步验证计划。

外部依赖

  • 无必需外部依赖。
  • Amazon APIClaw 数据研究需要 APICLAW_API_KEY、账户额度和网络访问。
  • Excel、CSV 或表格文件分析需要当前会话具备文件读取能力。
  • 自动采集平台页面必须另行确认授权、登录状态、平台条款、采集频率和依赖。

限制与已知问题

  • 不承诺销量、利润、排名、广告 ROAS 或经营结果。
  • 不把平台展示销量、BSR、热度、评论数或第三方估算当作绝对事实。
  • 不绕过登录、验证码、反爬、权限或付费 API 限制。
  • 不替用户做最终采购、备货、投放或定价决策。
  • 高风险类目如食品、保健、美妆、儿童、医疗器械、宠物食品和电器,需要更严格证据和人工复核。
Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 60 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A c061dbe303ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

merch-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,079 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

viral-tech-reel-editor

End-to-end viral tech reel production for Instagram Reels and TikTok using 2026 trend grammar — retention-first pacing, punch-ins, 3D cinematic AI-generated shots, motion design graphics, proof b-roll, trending SFX, karaoke captions (Georgian/English), safe-zone layout, and QA-gated 1080x1920 export. This skill should…

tornikebolokadze1-cyber/awesome-ai-pulse-georgia · 172 tokens

billing-automation

Build automated billing systems for recurring payments, invoicing, subscription lifecycle, and dunning management. Use when implementing subscription billing, automating invoicing, or managing recurring payment systems.

seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills · 40 tokens

hunt-business-logic

Hunting skill for business logic vulnerabilities. Built from 7 public bug bounty reports. Use when hunting business logic on any target.

adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai · 31 tokens

should-i-buy

Helps the user decide on a purchase by taking the product links they're considering, asking a couple of sharp clarifying questions about their needs and circumstances, then opening each link in real Chrome via the Claude-in-Chrome extension to extract price, specs, ratings, reviews, return policy, and shipping.…

mostafa-drz/claude-skills · 184 tokens

shop-research

Researches products across Amazon, Google Shopping, and relevant specialty sites using the Claude-in-Chrome browser extension. Finds candidates matching user-specified criteria (gift, gadget, gear, home goods, etc.), captures screenshots and key data per candidate, then generates a modern 2026 HTML report with…

mostafa-drz/claude-skills · 138 tokens

MarketplaceStrategist

Complete two-sided marketplace intelligence — cold start strategy, liquidity engineering, take rate optimization, trust and safety, supply/demand balance, and scaling from 100 to 10M transactions.

vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version · 40 tokens