benchmark-methodology

A method for comparing competitors using the same nine scored dimensions, each rated from 1 to 5. It produces evidence-based competitor profiles and a chart showing strategic differences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after defining a competitor set to assess positioning, voice, visual quality, offers, evidence, enterprise readiness, thought leadership, pricing, and the client's chosen strategic tension.
Why use it?
It replaces inconsistent impressions with a repeatable way to compare companies against the same criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ecc plugin — 37 skills, 3 commands, 17 agents shipped together

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/ysyecust/everything-claude-code/benchmark-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add ysyecust/everything-claude-code --skill benchmark-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ysyecust/everything-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ecc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 3 commands, 17 agents.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,219 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.02219
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00222

Measured 3d ago against content hash a4ac232387a4, 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 3d 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

100% identical to benchmark-methodology — 0 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.

.agents/skills/benchmark-methodology/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 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 · 191 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 191 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A a4ac232387a4

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benchmark-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository ysyecust/everything-claude-code (43 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,219 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to benchmark-methodology, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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