competitive-analysis

competitive-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,661 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for comparing how two to four established companies solve the same business problem. It uses web research and cites the sources for each comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Studying competitor approaches before designing product flows, APIs, permissions, notifications, subscriptions, account recovery, or other well-known business features.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid designing common features from guesswork by showing existing patterns and trade-offs side by side. It is intended for problems such as billing, access rules, search, onboarding, and data deletion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit/competitive-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit --skill competitive-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,661 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00061 $0.01661
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00166

Measured 4d ago against content hash 81cf4811a5bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

competitive-analysis 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/competitive-analysis/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/competitive-analysis

Before designing a feature in a well-trodden domain, look at how 2–4 mature companies handle it. Faster than inventing. More robust than guessing. Cite every source — never copy product copy or terms-of-service language.

When to use

  • Designing billing, dunning, refunds, plan changes, trials, onboarding.
  • Designing RBAC, workspace management, team invitations.
  • Designing notifications, digests, preferences.
  • Designing API rate limits, pagination, idempotency, error formats.
  • Designing search, filters, saved views.
  • Designing data export, deletion, retention.
  • Stuck on UX for a non-obvious flow (account merging, plan downgrade, account recovery).

When NOT to use

  • The user's domain is unique enough that competitor patterns won't transfer (specialized B2B verticals, regulated industries with custom workflows).
  • The user has already decided. Don't second-guess; just ship.
  • Style and copy decisions — those are taste, not pattern.

Operating method

1. Confirm the question

Ask the user, in one round:

  • What's the specific problem? Not "how does Stripe work" but "how should we handle a failed-payment retry schedule and the user-facing dunning emails?"
  • What's our context? B2C / B2B / SMB / enterprise / specific vertical. Self-serve vs sales-led. Plan structure.
  • What constraints are non-negotiable? Compliance, no-third-party-data, must-self-host, etc.
  • Which competitors should I look at? If unsure, suggest 3–4 mature ones in the relevant space.

Don't research without these answers. Researching the wrong question wastes a few minutes; acting on the wrong research costs a quarter.

2. Pick competitors deliberately

Mature comparison sets by domain (suggest these as defaults; adjust per user):

Domain Suggested competitors
SaaS billing & dunning Stripe, Recurly, Chargebee, Paddle
B2B SaaS workspace + RBAC Linear, Notion, Slack, Asana
CRM Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Close
E-commerce checkout Shopify, Stripe Checkout, BigCommerce, WooCommerce
Marketplace fees + payouts Stripe Connect, Airbnb, Etsy, Uber
Customer support Intercom, Zendesk, HelpScout, Front
Project management Linear, Jira, Asana, Monday
ERP financials NetSuite, SAP, Odoo, Microsoft Dynamics
Inventory Shopify, NetSuite, Cin7, Brightpearl
Auth / SSO Auth0, Clerk, WorkOS, Okta
Notifications / engagement Customer.io, Braze, Iterable, Knock
Webhooks / events Stripe, GitHub, Segment
Analytics Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, Segment
Search Algolia, Elasticsearch, Typesense, Meilisearch
Status / incidents StatusPage, Statuspal, Better Uptime

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 4d ago First seen · 152 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 81cf4811a5bb

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competitive-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,661 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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