competitor-monitor

competitor-monitor is a skill for Claude Code from sandbaseai/sandbase-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (500 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research workflow for tracking publicly visible changes across competitor websites, social media, news coverage, and search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare competitor content, social activity, news coverage, search rankings, and market positioning over the same period.
Why use it?
It brings several kinds of competitor activity into one comparison, while making clear which information cannot be observed, such as private or paid activity.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the sandbase-skills plugin — 97 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare competitor content, social activity, news coverage, search rankings, and market positioning over the same period.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/competitor-monitor
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 sandbaseai/sandbase-skills --skill competitor-monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sandbase-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 97 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 competitor-monitor

README.md
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Your own site
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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 competitor-monitor

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 500 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 $0.00040 $0.00500
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00250
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4cf5b35e58df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-monitor 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.

research/competitor-monitor/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Monitor

Cross-channel competitive intelligence through SandBase. Track competitor website content, social media activity, news coverage, and search visibility. Read the API map before selecting a capability.

Call SandBase capabilities

For every selected tool, call sandbase_describe_tool first and use only arguments in its current input schema. Then call sandbase_call_tool with the exact tool_name.

Operating principles

  • Focus on observable, public behavior — don't speculate on internal strategy.
  • Compare like-for-like: same time period, same metrics across competitors.
  • Track multiple dimensions: content, social, search, news.
  • Note what you can't observe (private channels, paid activity) as gaps.

Workflow

1. Website monitoring

Use firecrawl_scrape or context_dev_scrape_markdown to extract competitor page content. Use firecrawl_map to discover competitor site structure. Use context_dev_capture_screenshot for visual monitoring.

2. Search visibility

Use exa_search with include_domains to find competitor content. Use dataforseo_v3_serp_google_organic_live_advanced to check their rankings.

3. Social monitoring

Use twitter_web_search_timeline for competitor brand mentions. Use linkedin_web_v2_company_posts for competitor LinkedIn activity. Use youtube_web_v2_channel_videos for competitor YouTube content.

4. News tracking

Use tavily_search with competitor name and "news" topic. Use google_news_bulk_articles for news coverage.

Output

Return: competitor activity summary, content changes detected, social media presence comparison, search visibility snapshot, news coverage, and strategic observations.

Example tasks

  • "Monitor [competitor]'s website — what pages have they added or changed?"
  • "Compare [our brand] vs [competitor] social media activity this month."
  • "What's [competitor] ranking for that we're not?"
  • "Track [competitor]'s recent news coverage and announcements."
  • "Analyze [competitor]'s LinkedIn content strategy — what topics, cadence, engagement?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 12d ago First seen · 56 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 4cf5b35e58df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitor-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandbaseai/sandbase-skills (159 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 500 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.

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