competitor-discovery

competitor-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from superamped/ai-marketing-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,141 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for finding, checking, classifying, and ranking companies that compete with a product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when entering a market, reviewing alternatives customers might choose, or updating competitor research after a product change.
Why use it?
It helps build a credible competitor list instead of relying only on familiar names or assumptions about the market.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-marketing-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when entering a market, reviewing alternatives customers might choose, or updating competitor research after a product change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superamped/ai-marketing-skills/competitor-discovery
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 superamped/ai-marketing-skills --skill competitor-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superamped/ai-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,141 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 $0.00053 $0.01141
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00114

Measured 12d ago against content hash a13c2361ab1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-discovery 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.

skills/research/competitor-discovery/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor Discovery

Usage

Use when you don't know who your competitors are, when entering a new market, or when refreshing the competitor list after a pivot or market shift.

Process

Step 1: Gather Inputs

Ask the user for:

  1. Product description — what it does, what category it's in, key features
  2. Target audience — who buys or uses the product (role, industry, company size)
  3. Known competitors (optional) — names or URLs to include without searching
  4. Number to find (optional) — default: 5-7

Step 2: Build Search Queries

Construct 4-6 search queries mixing these angles:

  • Category: "[category] tools 2025 2026" or "[category] software"
  • Alternative: "[product name] alternatives" or "tools like [product name]"
  • Problem: "[primary use case] solution" or "[pain point] tool"
  • Audience: "best [category] for [target company type]" or "[category] for [target role]"
  • Comparison: "best [category] compared" or "top [category] platforms"
  • Review sites: "[category] G2" or "[category] Capterra" (to mine company names from lists)

Tailor queries to the product type. A B2B SaaS product needs different queries than a marketplace or agency service.

Step 3: Search and Collect

Run web searches for each query. For each result:

  • Extract company names and domains that appear across multiple results
  • Pull companies listed on review/comparison sites (G2, Capterra, etc.) — these are strong signals
  • Skip aggregator sites themselves, job boards, news articles about funding, and clearly unrelated results

Compile a candidate list of 8-12 companies. For each, note:

  • Name
  • URL (homepage)
  • How found — which search queries surfaced them

Rank candidates by frequency — companies appearing in 3+ different searches are almost certainly direct competitors.

Step 4: Quick Profile Each Candidate

For each candidate, fetch their homepage (and pricing page if easily accessible) and extract:

  • One-liner — what they say they do, in their own words
  • Target audience signals — who the site speaks to
  • Overlap — how directly they compete (direct / adjacent / tangential)

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 12d ago First seen · 123 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A a13c2361ab1f

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competitor-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository superamped/ai-marketing-skills (67 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,141 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 2026-08-30.

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