competitive-analyzer

competitive-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code from varunk130/ai-customer-discovery-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (800 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for comparing competing products based on the few buying factors that matter most. It scores competitors on those factors, then identifies gaps, risks, and actions suggested by the comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define decision-relevant comparison dimensions, score competitors with evidence, find areas where all competitors are weak, identify where one is stronger, and choose concrete strategic moves.
Why use it?
It avoids a long feature checklist that does not help with a product or positioning decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to define decision-relevant comparison dimensions, score competitors with evidence, find areas where all competitors are weak, identify where one is stronger, and choose concrete strategic moves.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/varunk130/ai-customer-discovery-skills/competitive-analyzer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add varunk130/ai-customer-discovery-skills --skill competitive-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/varunk130/ai-customer-discovery-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 800 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 $0.00063 $0.00800
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00400
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00080

Measured 11d ago against content hash 98b27f9995d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-analyzer 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 11d 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/competitive-analyzer/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Competitive Analyzer

Run a disciplined competitive teardown that goes beyond a feature checklist. The output is the smallest set of decision-relevant dimensions, scored objectively across competitors, with explicit gaps you can attack and risks you should defend.

Core Principle

A competitive analysis is only useful if it changes a decision. Most teardowns produce 40-row feature grids that no one reads. This skill forces brutal selection: pick the 4-6 dimensions buyers actually weigh, score them with a defensible rubric, and surface the 2-3 moves the analysis implies.

Output

Save to outputs/competitive-analysis-[market]-[YYYY-MM-DD].md

Artifact Description
Dimension Map The 4-6 buyer-weighted dimensions with rationale for inclusion
Scoring Matrix Each competitor scored 1-5 on each dimension, with one-line evidence per cell
Gap Map Dimensions where every competitor underperforms - the white space
Risk Map Dimensions where one competitor strongly outperforms us
Implied Moves 2-3 concrete strategic moves the analysis suggests, ranked by leverage

Process

Step 1: Frame the Market

I'll ask:

"What market are we analyzing, and from whose perspective? List the competitors (3-7 works best). What's the deal context - what's a typical buyer trying to accomplish?"

Step 2: Pick the Dimensions

Generate a candidate list of 12-15 dimensions, then ruthlessly cut to 4-6 by applying two filters:

  • Decision relevance - does this dimension actually move buying decisions?
  • Discriminating power - do competitors meaningfully differ on it? (Dimensions where everyone scores the same get cut.)

Step 3: Score with Evidence

For each (competitor × dimension) cell, score 1-5 with a single sentence of evidence - a public artifact, a customer quote, a product behavior - not opinion.

Step 4: Identify Gaps and Risks

Two scans across the matrix:

  • Gap - any dimension where the highest score is ≤3 → market is underserved, opportunity
  • Risk - any dimension where a competitor scores 5 and we score ≤3 → defensive priority

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 11d ago First seen · 65 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 98b27f9995d2

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competitive-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository varunk130/ai-customer-discovery-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 800 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 2026-08-31.

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