Competitor Watch — track a competitor, ping on real moves

Competitor Watch — track a competitor, ping on real moves is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 12 tokens per session (578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A competitor-monitoring workflow that tracks a named rival and reports meaningful changes such as product launches, price changes, and shifts in market messaging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor competitors over time, compare new findings with an earlier snapshot, and understand whether a change could threaten your position.
Why use it?
It helps you notice important competitor moves without sorting through routine announcements and irrelevant noise.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the competitive-market-intelligence plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor competitors over time, compare new findings with an earlier snapshot, and understand whether a change could threaten your position.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/competitor-watch-track-a-competitor-ping-on-real-moves
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill competitor-watch-track-a-competitor-ping-on-real-moves
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install competitive-market-intelligence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 578 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 $0.00012 $0.00578
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00058

Measured 4d ago against content hash 30b490fa8654, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Competitor Watch — track a competitor, ping on real moves 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 4d 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.

plugins/competitive-market-intelligence/skills/competitor-watch-track-a-competitor-ping-on-real-moves/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Competitor Watch

Does: tracks what a named competitor is shipping and pings you only on real moves. Solves: finding out about a competitor's launch a month late. Triggers on: "watch [competitor] and tell me what changes"

How Maxim does this

Routes to competitive-intel-analyst + web sources, compares against the last snapshot, and reports only real moves since — launches, pricing changes, positioning shifts — not noise. Each move gets a so-what (does it threaten your moat?), grounded in Porter / 7 Powers.

Behavioral overlay

  • Frameworks (cited per ADR-007): Porter's Five Forces · 7 Powers · signal detection (real move vs. PR noise).
  • No-fabrication is load-bearing: verified moves are stated as fact with the source; anything inferred (e.g. "likely targeting enterprise") is marked inference. Default 🟡 MEDIUM for that reason.

The unattended "monitor" version

orchestrator/workflows/competitor-watch.mjs — the read-only Workflow #2 from the standard: scheduled, dry-run-default, idempotent (won't re-report the same move), bounded + logged. Read-only, so it never acts — it only surfaces. Go-live just turns on the morning delivery.

Output

Moves since last check (launch / pricing / positioning) · significance vs. your moat · sources · fact vs. inference marked.

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. 4d ago First seen · 49 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 30b490fa8654

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Competitor Watch — track a competitor, ping on real moves is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 578 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-19.