competitive-analysis

Framework for building competitive landscape decks — market positioning, competitor deep-dives, comparative analysis, strategic synthesis. Use when the user asks for a competitive landscape, competitor analysis, peer comparison, market positioning assessment, strategic review, or investment memo deck. Also triggers on "who are the competitors to X", "benchmark X against peers", "build a market map", or any request to systematically evaluate competitive dynamics across an industry.

Quality

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, actionable instruction-only skill with concrete schemas, a gated two-phase workflow, validation checkpoints, and properly signaled one-level-deep bundle references. The main improvement is trimming minor redundancy between the Standards and Quality checklist sections.

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Consolidate the overlapping guidance between the 'Standards — Prompt fidelity' bullets and the 'Quality checklist — Prompt fidelity' bullets to reduce redundancy and token cost.

Move the reusable inline table schemas (e.g. target profile, competitor deep-dive, comparative analysis) into references/schemas.md and reference them, so the workflow reads leaner.

Reconcile the 'What's strict vs. flexible' table with the earlier Prompt fidelity bullets, which restate the same rules in a different form.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Dense, information-rich body that assumes Claude's competence (no basic concept explanations), tight tables and bullets; minor redundancy between the 'Standards' section and the 'Quality checklist' and the 'What's strict vs. flexible' table keeps it just below lean at 5.	4 / 5
Actionability	Highly actionable for an instruction-only skill: exact table schemas, typography point sizes, citation formats, source-quality ordering, moat categories, and concrete Correct/Wrong examples; matches anchor-5 actionable guidance for common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Two-phase process with an explicit gating checkpoint ('Do not create slides until the outline is approved'), numbered Steps 0–9, an environment check, and a final Quality checklist with visual verification; includes feedback loops appropriate to a batch slide-generation skill.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Overview SKILL.md with two real, clearly-signaled one-level-deep references (references/frameworks.md and references/schemas.md, both verified to exist); minor organization gap in that some inline schemas are reused across steps rather than consolidated in references, keeping it just below 5.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, third-person description with explicit what/when structure and excellent natural trigger-term coverage including direct user phrasings. The only gap is mild overlap among the named sub-tasks and a small conflict risk with broad research skills.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several concrete sub-tasks ('market positioning, competitor deep-dives, comparative analysis, strategic synthesis') tied to a concrete deliverable (competitive landscape decks); actions overlap somewhat in domain, keeping it just below comprehensive at 5.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (build competitive landscape decks with named components) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when...' plus 'Also triggers on...' phrases); matches the anchor-5 example.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural-term coverage including synonyms and quoted user utterances ('competitive landscape', 'competitor analysis', 'peer comparison', 'who are the competitors to X', 'benchmark X against peers', 'build a market map'); matches the anchor-5 example.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear niche (competitive/market landscape decks) with well-targeted triggers and minimal conflict risk; minor overlap with a generic company-research skill keeps it just below 5.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

100%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository: anthropics/financial-services
Path: plugins/agent-plugins/market-researcher/skills/competitive-analysis/SKILL.md
Commit: 69cbc81

Reviewed: about 8 hours ago

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