cowork-os Competitive Research
Purpose
Research competitors for a product, market, or idea and identify opportunities to differentiate
Routing
- Use when: Use when a user asks to research competitors, analyze a market, or find alternatives to a product.
- Do not use when: Don't use for general web research that isn't competitive analysis.
- Outputs: Structured competitive analysis with feature comparison, market positioning, and differentiation recommendations.
- Success criteria: Identifies at least 3 real competitors with accurate information and provides actionable differentiation advice.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the competitive-research skill for this request.
- Help me with competitive research.
- Use when a user asks to research competitors, analyze a market, or find alternatives to a product.
- Competitive Research: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Don't use for general web research that isn't competitive analysis.
- Do not use competitive-research for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside competitive research scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| topic | string | Yes | The product, market, or idea to research competitors for |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 1020 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../competitive-research.json.