# Competitive Research

> Research competitors for a product, market, or idea and identify opportunities to differentiate

- Skill: `cowork-os/competitive-research` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add cowork-os/competitive-research`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/cowork-os/competitive-research/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search
- Author: cowork-os (https://skillmd.com/u/cowork-os)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/cowork-os/competitive-research

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# 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`.