benchmark-methodology

benchmark-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ufy2024/AuC. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,315 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of benchmark-methodology, MIT.

A method for comparing competitors using the same nine scored criteria, including positioning, pricing, evidence, and enterprise readiness. Each criterion uses a defined 1–5 scale rather than an informal opinion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after building a competitor list to create scores and profile cards for a competitive report. It helps identify where competitors are strong, where they are weak, and where a client may find an open position in the market.
Why use it?
It makes competitor rankings easier to compare and defend because the same rules and evidence are applied to every company. It also accounts for the client's own strategic trade-off, such as memorability versus ease of hiring.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

AuC is a Python framework for running a single AI agent with an asynchronous, pluggable reasoning loop, language-model adapters, permission levels, and observable events. It is used to build coding and conversational agents with tools, security checks, web interfaces, background jobs, evaluations, and isolated execution. The catalogue entries are skills for extending its agent workflow.

ufy2024/AuC · 1,091 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ufy2024/auc/benchmark-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add ufy2024/AuC --skill benchmark-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ufy2024/AuC

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 2,315 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% 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 $0.00072 $0.02315
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01157
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00231

Measured 5d ago against content hash cb4fc5b7828a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

benchmark-methodology 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to benchmark-methodology — 33 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.

auc/skill_library/bundled/benchmark-methodology/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Benchmark Methodology

Use this skill to turn a scoped competitor set into comparable, defensible scores. Each competitor is assessed on the same nine dimensions, with explicit 1–5 rubrics, then captured in a uniform profile card. Consistency is the point: scores are only useful if the same evidence would earn the same number for any competitor.

When to Activate

  • A scoped, tiered competitor set from competitive-platform-analysis is ready to score.
  • Need comparable, evidence-anchored scores across competitors — not gut-feel rankings.
  • Client's strategic tension (the paired axes defining their target white-space) has been established.
  • Preparing to produce profile cards for assembly in competitive-report-structure.

Client positioning brief (establish first)

Before scoring, establish the client's positioning brief. It supplies:

  • Strategic tension — the two axes (e.g., memorability × hireability) whose intersection marks the client's target white-space. Dimension 9 is always the client's named tension; report both poles separately, never averaged.
  • Differentiator — what makes the client's moat. This informs which dimensions matter most for the client's positioning argument.
  • Brand balance — the intended mix of distinct strategic emphases. Strategic recommendations must not break this balance without flagging it.

Why these dimensions

The client competes on a specific tension held across two poles, not on service breadth. The dimensions are weighted to reflect that moat. Two dimensions — the tension poles — are scored separately and never averaged together, because the client's strategic question is precisely whether a rival achieves both simultaneously.

The nine dimensions (with weights)

Weights guide synthesis emphasis, not a single blended score (avoid a false composite — see Bias controls). Sum = 100%.

  1. Positioning clarity & distinctiveness (18%) — Is the studio's position sharp, ownable, and instantly legible? Or generic?
  2. Brand voice / verbal distinctiveness (15%) — Does the copy have an ownable register, or is it interchangeable agency-speak?
  3. Visual identity & site craft (15%) — Quality and ownership of the visual system; site as proof-of-craft.
  4. Service offer & packaging (12%) — Productized and legible (named sprints/audits) vs vague. Packaging maturity.
  5. Evidence & credibility (12%) — Named clients, quantified outcomes, case-study depth. Proof beyond assertion.
  6. Enterprise-readiness / commercial maturity (10%) — Signals they can land and hold SaaS/fintech/B2B/enterprise work (process, logos, scale, contracts).
  7. Thought leadership / content presence (8%) — Owned POV: writing, talks, newsletters, frameworks. Depth over volume.
  8. Pricing transparency & engagement model (5%) — Is pricing/engagement legible? Productized vs bespoke vs opaque.
  9. [Client's strategic tension] (5% as a flag; score BOTH poles, report separately) — Read the tension name and axis descriptions from the client's positioning brief. Plot both; the gap is the insight. The client's target quadrant is the single most important finding: who else is already there?

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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. 5d ago First seen · 210 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A cb4fc5b7828a

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benchmark-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository ufy2024/AuC (1,091 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,315 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to benchmark-methodology, differing in 33 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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