Overview
competitive-research-snapshot is an open-source productivity skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by deanpeters. Its author describes it as: “Research a competitive landscape with cited snapshots, a comparison matrix, and so-what implications. Use when a product decision needs competitive grounding, not a market report.”. The project has 6.5k stars on GitHub and ships custom license terms, so review them before reuse. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills`.
What competitive-research-snapshot does
Research a company's competitive landscape using a workflow, not a one-shot answer: **search plan → competitor selection → just-enough research → fact/inference labels → real URL citations → next-step options.** The output is a decision-support snapshot, not a market report — and because its schema is stable, downstream skills (battle cards, delta monitors) can consume it and diff it. Because it proceeds on labeled assumptions when questions go unanswered, it can run as an agent task or on a schedule; re-run it and diff against the prior snapshot.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for competitive-research-snapshot is organised into these sections:
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- Application
- Output schema (do not reorder)
- 1. Scope
- 2. Competitor Snapshots
- Competitor: [Name]
- 3. Quick Comparison
- 4. So What?
- Final Step (offer exactly 4 options)
- Examples
Installation
Add competitive-research-snapshot to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-SkillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license for this repository (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
Strengths
- Ships in deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, an established project with 6,527 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Things to check
- No license declared — confirm terms with the author before reuse
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does competitive-research-snapshot do?
- Research a competitive landscape with cited snapshots, a comparison matrix, and so-what implications. Use when a product decision needs competitive grounding, not a market report.
- How do I install competitive-research-snapshot?
- Run /plugin marketplace add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills before installing.
- Is competitive-research-snapshot free to use?
- competitive-research-snapshot is publicly available on GitHub, but deanpeters has not declared a standard open-source license (Other). Confirm the terms with the author before reusing it.
- Which agents does competitive-research-snapshot work with?
- competitive-research-snapshot lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does competitive-research-snapshot come from?
- competitive-research-snapshot ships inside deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 6,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.