brand-discovery

brand-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 132 tokens per session (2,088 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research process for understanding a brand’s audience, competitors, market category, problem space, and possible positioning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a brand or website project to research customers and competitors or explore positioning options.
Why use it?
It helps establish who the brand is for and where it could stand before creative or content work begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a brand or website project to research customers and competitors or explore positioning options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/brand-discovery
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 rampstackco/claude-skills --skill brand-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,088 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 $0.00132 $0.02088
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01044
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00209

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1826d52344ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-discovery 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 10d 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/brand-discovery/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Discovery

Upstream of every brief, identity, and content plan. Discovery answers four questions: who the brand is for, what they need, who else is competing for that need, and where the brand could plausibly stand that competitors do not.


When to use

  • The very first phase of a new brand or website project
  • Understanding an audience before any creative work begins
  • Mapping competitors and category dynamics
  • Surfacing the problem space the brand will operate in
  • Generating positioning territories before brief or ideation
  • When a creative brief was requested but the inputs are missing

When NOT to use

  • The audience and category are already well-understood (jump to creative-brief or brand-ideation)
  • Validating a specific design or feature with users (use usability-testing)
  • Mapping the customer journey of an existing audience (use journey-mapping)
  • Generating brand names or visual directions (use brand-ideation)

Required inputs

  • The product, service, or organization being branded
  • Whatever is already known about the audience and category (often very little)
  • Access to existing materials (sales calls, support tickets, reviews, analytics)
  • Any constraints (parent brand, regulatory, geographic)
  • A timeline (a 1-week discovery looks different than a 6-week one)

The framework: 4 dimensions

Discovery covers four dimensions. Each has its own sources, methods, and outputs.

1. Audience

Who specifically does this serve?

Layers to surface:

  • Demographic: Age range, geography, language, life stage, income (only if relevant; do not over-collect demographics)
  • Psychographic: Values, motivations, beliefs, fears
  • Behavioral: What they currently do to address the problem, what tools they use, where they spend time online and offline
  • Jobs-to-be-done: The functional, emotional, and social jobs they hire a brand to perform

Sources:

  • Existing customer interviews (5 to 8 ideal)
  • Sales call recordings or transcripts
  • Support ticket themes
  • Review and forum analysis (Reddit, Trustpilot, App Store, niche communities)
  • First-party analytics (search console queries, on-site search, top pages)
  • Social listening (what they post about the category)

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 204 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 1826d52344ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brand-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (832 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 2,088 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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