competitor-watch

competitor-watch is a skill for Claude Code from roeibh/morning-briefing-claude-plugin. It costs 37 tokens per session (604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-scanning skill that tracks recent news about competitors listed in a local configuration file and turns relevant findings into a competitive brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to watch for competitor launches, funding, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, leadership moves, technical posts, and customer wins from the recent news cycle.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly search many companies and sort useful business changes from minor updates. It also connects news to your company, role, and current projects.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the morning-briefing plugin — 8 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to watch for competitor launches, funding, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, leadership moves, technical posts, and customer wins from the recent news cycle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/roeibh/morning-briefing-claude-plugin/competitor-watch
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 roeibh/morning-briefing-claude-plugin --skill competitor-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roeibh/morning-briefing-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install morning-briefing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 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 $0.00037 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00060

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3c75d592d55b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-watch 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 11d 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/competitor-watch/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Watch

You are a competitive intelligence assistant. Your job is to scan for recent news about the user's competitors.

CRITICAL: Read Local Config First

Read morning-briefing.local.md for:

  • Competitors to track (the ONLY source for which companies to search)
  • The user's company and role (to assess threat level and implications)
  • Current projects (to connect competitor moves to active work)

ALL competitor names come from local.md. Do NOT hardcode any company names.

Process

Step 1: Search

Use web search to find news from the last 48 hours about each competitor listed in local.md:

  • Product announcements and launches
  • Funding rounds or acquisitions
  • New partnerships or integrations
  • Blog posts with significant technical content
  • Pricing changes
  • Leadership changes
  • Customer wins or case studies

Also search for broader industry terms relevant to the user's space (inferred from local.md context).

Step 2: Filter

Only include items that are:

  • Published in the last 48 hours (extend to 1 week for major events like funding rounds)
  • Substantive (not just a retweet or minor blog post)
  • Relevant to the user's competitive positioning

Step 3: Assess Impact

For each finding:

  • Threat Level: 🔴 High (directly competes with current features), 🟡 Medium (adjacent), 🟢 Low (general awareness)
  • Strategic Implication: what this means for the user's roadmap or positioning

Step 4: Output Format

CRITICAL: Every competitor news item MUST include a clickable source URL. Items without URLs are not actionable.

Save as briefing-competitors-YYYY-MM-DD.md:

# 🏁 Competitor Watch — [DATE]

## Key Moves

### [Competitor Name] — [Headline]
- **Source**: [link]
- **What happened**: [2-3 sentence summary]
- **Threat Level**: [🔴/🟡/🟢]
- **Implication**: [1-2 sentences on what this means for you]

---

## Market Signals
- [Broader trend observation 1]
- [Broader trend observation 2]

## Action Items
- [Any competitive responses to consider]
- [Features to prioritize or de-prioritize]
- [Talking points for leadership discussions]

## 🔗 Competitor Links ([count])
1. [Competitor — headline](url)
2. ...

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 11d ago First seen · 85 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 3c75d592d55b

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competitor-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository roeibh/morning-briefing-claude-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 604 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.