comparison-tool-design

comparison-tool-design is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 146 tokens per session (3,355 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for side-by-side tools that compare plans, products, or alternatives and help people choose between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing comparison criteria, setting sensible default comparisons, and presenting a clear recommendation that users can change.
Why use it?
It prevents comparison pages from becoming long feature tables or disguised sales pitches that do not support a decision.

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 Choosing comparison criteria, setting sensible default comparisons, and presenting a clear recommendation that users can change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rampstackco/claude-skills/comparison-tool-design
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 comparison-tool-design
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.

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Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,355 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00146 $0.03355
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01677
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00671
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00335

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3a8559eadf13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comparison-tool-design 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 8d 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/comparison-tool-design/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Comparison Tool Design

A senior product marketing director's playbook for designing side-by-side comparison tools that help users decide rather than just listing features. Plan-compare, product-compare, alternative-compare. Axis selection, default-comparison logic, recommendation discipline. The discipline of building a comparison tool that earns the user's trust.

Most comparison tools fail in one of two ways. They dump every feature into a giant grid (4 options × 40 features = 160 cells) and ask the user to weigh everything against everything. The user leaves without choosing. Or they pretend to be neutral comparisons but are actually sales pitches with biased defaults and weighted framing; the user catches the bias and trust collapses.

The comparison tools that work do something different. Genuine like-for-like comparison plus an explicit opinionated recommendation. "For X audience, choose Y." The recommendation is visible, defended, and not the only path; users can override. The tool helps the user decide rather than asking them to decide alone.

The voice is the senior product marketing director who has watched comparison tools double conversion when redesigned with honest recommendations and watched them collapse when feature grids grew without decision support. Practical, opinionated about which axes matter, willing to call out when the comparison is decoration.

When to use this skill: scoping a comparison tool for the first time, auditing a feature-grid comparison that produces no conversion lift, designing recommendation logic that is honest about the recommendation, or deciding which axes earn placement in a comparison tool.


What this skill covers

This skill spans side-by-side comparison tools. The growth-tooling distinctions:

  • calculator-design is calculators that give a number. This skill is comparing known options.
  • quiz-and-assessment-design is quizzes that give a category. This skill is comparing options the user already knows about.
  • comparison-tool-design (this skill) is axis selection, default-comparison logic, recommendation engine, filter-and-toggle UX.
  • landing-page-copy is pricing-page copy; one specific application of comparison tools is the pricing page.
  • content-strategy is upstream; what topics warrant comparison content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 268 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A 3a8559eadf13

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comparison-tool-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (826 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 3,355 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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