competitive-analysis

competitive-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for studying competing iOS and macOS apps, including their features, prices, strengths, and market position.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify competitors, compare features and pricing, assess strengths and weaknesses, and find opportunities for differentiation.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to understand what similar apps offer and where a new app could differ.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit It helps identify competitors, compare features and pricing, assess strengths and weaknesses, and find opportunities for differentiation.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/competitive-analysis
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 rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill competitive-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

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 competitive-analysis

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/competitive-analysis.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/competitive-analysis)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/competitive-analysis"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/competitive-analysis.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,691 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 326
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00057 $0.02691
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01345
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00538
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00269

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3e937fc3039a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-analysis 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.

skills/product/competitive-analysis/SKILL.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Analysis Skill

Performs deep competitive analysis for iOS/macOS app ideas. Goes beyond basic discovery to provide detailed competitor insights, feature matrices, and differentiation opportunities.

When This Skill Activates

Use this Skill when the user wants to:

  • Understand competitors in detail
  • Compare features across competitors
  • Analyze competitor pricing strategies
  • Identify competitive strengths/weaknesses
  • Find differentiation opportunities
  • Map market positioning
  • Deep-dive after initial problem discovery

This is a follow-up to the product-agent skill — use this when you need more competitive depth.

What This Skill Does

1. Competitor Identification

  • Identifies direct and indirect competitors
  • Categorizes by market position (leaders, challengers, niche)
  • Includes App Store rankings and ratings

2. Feature Comparison

  • Creates feature comparison matrix
  • Identifies unique features per competitor
  • Highlights feature gaps (opportunities)

3. Pricing Analysis

  • Compares pricing models (free, paid, subscription, freemium)
  • Analyzes price points
  • Identifies pricing strategies

4. SWOT Analysis

  • Strengths of each competitor
  • Weaknesses and limitations
  • Opportunities for differentiation
  • Threats to new entrants

5. Market Positioning

  • How competitors position themselves
  • Target audience differences
  • Brand messaging analysis

6. Differentiation Strategy

  • Key output: How to be different
  • Feature gaps in market
  • Underserved user segments
  • Unique value propositions

How to Use

Basic Usage

Start with the product-agent skill for baseline problem discovery, then enhance with deep competitor research using WebSearch and WebFetch.

Workflow

  1. Start with discovery using the product-agent skill to identify competitors. Extract the current_solutions field for the competitor list.

  2. Research each competitor using WebSearch/WebFetch:

    • Search for "[competitor name] app features"
    • Search for "[competitor name] pricing"
    • Fetch their App Store page
    • Fetch their website

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 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 · 373 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 3e937fc3039a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitive-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (710 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,691 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 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

thinking-theory-of-constraints

When throughput or latency is pipeline-limited, identify the single binding constraint and exploit, subordinate, elevate, then recheck—ignore non-constraints.

tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills · 37 tokens

electron-desktop

Desktop application development with Electron for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Use when building cross-platform desktop apps, implementing native OS features, or packaging web apps for desktop.

travisjneuman/.claude · 38 tokens

investment-memo-generator

Investment memo creation combining financial analysis, document generation, and structured templates. Use when creating investment memos, pitch decks, deal summaries, or investment committee materials.

travisjneuman/.claude · 37 tokens

impact-report-writer

Nonprofit/NGO impact report generation with data visualization suggestions, outcome metrics, narrative structure, and program data presentation. Use when writing impact reports, annual reports, or program evaluation summaries.

travisjneuman/.claude · 43 tokens

generic-static-feature-developer

Guide feature development for static HTML/CSS/JS sites. Covers patterns, automation workflows, and content validation. Use when adding features, modifying automation, or planning changes.

travisjneuman/.claude · 40 tokens

python-memory-safe-scripts

Memory-safe Python script patterns for long-running processes under systemd MemoryMax constraints. Covers allocator purge (mimalloc/glibc malloctrim), HTTP response lifecycle, DataFrame cleanup, thread-local connection reuse, and periodic GC cadence. Battle-tested through 5 OOM optimization cycles on production GPU…

terrylica/cc-skills · 197 tokens