Agent skill · marketing growth · deanpeters
competitive-intel-watch
Scheduled delta monitoring against a prior competitive snapshot. Use when tracking competitors on a cadence: material shifts only, cited evidence, battle-card update flags, runs unattended.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a structured workflow for monitoring competitive shifts that the AI wouldn't generate on its own.
What it needs
About 6k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-17. 6,302 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Competitive Intel Watch Purpose Monitor a competitive landscape for material shifts since the last run. Diff the world against the previous snapshot; report only what changed, with evidence; flag which downstream artifacts need updating. This is the skill that turns competitive research from a document into a cadence — the weekly SIGINT sweep and monthly OSINT digest from the fusion cadence live here. A watch reports change, not state: regenerating the same report weekly is theater, and "no material shifts this cycle" is a valid, useful result. Input Works best with: the previous Competitive Research Snapshot (pasted or attached) — the baseline this run diffs against — and the competitor list (defaults to those in the snapshot). Also useful: anything specific you're watching for this cycle, and a materiality bar adjustment if the default needs tightening or loosening. Input supplied inline with the invocation — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it against the question budget; don't re-ask. Arriving empty-handed? That works too. With no prior snapshot, the skill falls back to baseline mode: it produces a first snapshot using the competitive-research-snapshot structure and stops — the delta value starts on run two. Example invocation: Competitive intel watch — prior snapshot pasted below; this cycle I'm specifically watching for pricing moves. [snapshot] Key Concepts Governing protocol: honors the autonomous-investigation contract — question budget of 2 (this skill's tightest), search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, Just Enough Mode, stable schema, 4-option Final Step. Discipline mix: SIGINT first (site diffs, pricing pages, job posts — the freshest layer), with OSINT and HUMINT signals monthly and FININT on the quarterly pass — the fusion cadence in intelligence-collection-disciplines is this skill's operating rhythm. The materiality bar. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills deanpeters/competitive-intel-watch