competitor-pr-finder

competitor-pr-finder is a skill for Claude Code from Varnan-Tech/opendirectory. It costs 112 tokens per session (7,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that studies a product's competitors and the public-relations channels they use, such as news sites, podcasts, and online communities. It returns potential contacts, story angles, and outreach drafts based on fetched evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify competitors, find repeated PR channels, locate journalists or podcast hosts, develop story angles, and draft outreach pitches.
Why use it?
It turns competitor research into a list of possible media and community targets while requiring names and claims to be supported by search results or the product page.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the opendirectory plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify competitors, find repeated PR channels, locate journalists or podcast hosts, develop story angles, and draft outreach pitches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/varnan-tech/opendirectory/competitor-pr-finder
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 Varnan-Tech/opendirectory --skill competitor-pr-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Varnan-Tech/opendirectory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opendirectory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 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-pr-finder

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/varnan-tech/opendirectory/competitor-pr-finder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/varnan-tech/opendirectory/competitor-pr-finder/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,470 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 9 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 52
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Supply Chain · line 93
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high Supply Chain · line 109
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 762
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 93
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 93
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 109
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 109
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 441
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00112 $0.07470
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.03735
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00747

Measured 9d ago against content hash 202508fb6519, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitor-pr-finder scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/research.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

from urllib.parse import urlparse
skills/competitor-pr-finder/SKILL.md · 768 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 768 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitor PR Finder

Give it your product URL. It finds your competitors, researches every PR channel they used (news, podcasts, communities), surfaces the channels that appear across multiple competitors (your proven targets), finds the journalist or host for each, and drafts a personalized cold pitch for your product at every tier-1 channel.


Zero-hallucination policy: Every channel, journalist name, story angle, and pitch detail in the output must trace to a specific Tavily search result or the fetched product page. This applies to:

  • Competitor names: must appear in Tavily search results, not AI training knowledge
  • Channel names: must have a URL in the search results
  • Journalist/host names: must appear verbatim in a Tavily snippet
  • Story angles: extracted from article/episode titles in search results only
  • Pitch drafts: reference specific evidence from search data + product analysis

Common Mistakes

The agent will want to... Why that's wrong
Name a journalist from training knowledge Every journalist name must trace to a search result snippet. Writing "Sarah Perez covers startups at TechCrunch" from memory is hallucination.
List channels without evidence URLs Every channel in the output must have at least one URL from the PR search results proving a competitor was featured there.
Skip the competitor confirmation step Always show discovered competitors and wait for the user to confirm. Wrong competitors = wasted searches and a useless output.
Generate generic pitches ("We'd love to be featured") Every pitch must reference a specific angle from the evidence AND a specific differentiator from the product analysis.
Mark a channel as Tier 1 with only 1 competitor occurrence Tier 1 = 3+ competitors. Tier 2 = exactly 2. Tier 3 = 1. Do not promote channels that haven't proven themselves.
Use em dashes in output Replace all em dashes (--) with hyphens.

Read Reference Files Before Each Run

Read the full file on GitHub · 768 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 768 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 202508fb6519

Subscribe to this mod's changes

competitor-pr-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository Varnan-Tech/opendirectory (635 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 7,470 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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