ai-vision-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/market-research/SKILL.md

market-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp. It costs 50 tokens per session (449 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of market-research, MIT.

A guide to researching markets, competitors, investors, companies, and industry trends using cited sources. It turns the findings into conclusions that support business decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps estimate market size, compare competitors, investigate investors, assess technologies, and test a business idea before building or funding it.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making decisions from unsupported claims, outdated information, or a one-sided view of the market.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: installed under .claude/, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

This is tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ai-vision-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ai-vision-mcp configures →

Part of the ai-vision-mcp plugin — 29 skills, 1 plugin shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp/main/.claude/skills/market-research/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-vision-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 1 plugin.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 449 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7d5ba9b09206, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-research 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to market-research — 149 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/market-research/SKILL.md · 76 lines

What it actually says

Market Research

Produce research that supports decisions, not research theater.

When to Activate

  • researching a market, category, company, investor, or technology trend
  • building TAM/SAM/SOM estimates
  • comparing competitors or adjacent products
  • preparing investor dossiers before outreach
  • pressure-testing a thesis before building, funding, or entering a market

Research Standards

  1. Every important claim needs a source.
  2. Prefer recent data and call out stale data.
  3. Include contrarian evidence and downside cases.
  4. Translate findings into a decision, not just a summary.
  5. Separate fact, inference, and recommendation clearly.

Common Research Modes

Investor / Fund Diligence

Collect:

  • fund size, stage, and typical check size
  • relevant portfolio companies
  • public thesis and recent activity
  • reasons the fund is or is not a fit
  • any obvious red flags or mismatches

Competitive Analysis

Collect:

  • product reality, not marketing copy
  • funding and investor history if public
  • traction metrics if public
  • distribution and pricing clues
  • strengths, weaknesses, and positioning gaps

Market Sizing

Use:

  • top-down estimates from reports or public datasets
  • bottom-up sanity checks from realistic customer acquisition assumptions
  • explicit assumptions for every leap in logic

Technology / Vendor Research

Collect:

  • how it works
  • trade-offs and adoption signals
  • integration complexity
  • lock-in, security, compliance, and operational risk

Output Format

Default structure:

  1. executive summary
  2. key findings
  3. implications
  4. risks and caveats
  5. recommendation
  6. sources

Quality Gate

Before delivering:

  • all numbers are sourced or labeled as estimates
  • old data is flagged
  • the recommendation follows from the evidence
  • risks and counterarguments are included
  • the output makes a decision easier
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 · 76 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 7d5ba9b09206

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market-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository tan-yong-sheng/ai-vision-mcp (78 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 449 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to market-research, differing in 149 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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