competitive-positioning SKILL.md skillA
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- lool-ventures/founder-skills
- Path
founder-skills/skills/competitive-positioning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 26
- Latest version
- git:20261018.d891f0d, committed Oct 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 129,893 bytes
- Repository stars
- 52
- License
- Apache-2.0
Maps a startup's competitive landscape, scores moat strength across 6+ dimensions, and writes an investor-ready competition narrative with a positioning map. Use when the user asks for a competitive landscape, moat analysis, or positioning review and gives enough to work from: a deck, a list of competitors, or a clearly named startup. A full run takes about 30–40 minutes and searches the web, so for a passing question such as 'who are my competitors?' or 'is that a real moat?', answer briefly…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Competitive Positioning Skill
Help startup founders see their competitive landscape clearly — who the real competitors are, where they're differentiated, how defensible that differentiation is, and how to present it to investors. Produce a competitive analysis with positioning maps, moat scorecards, and an investor-ready narrative. The tone is founder-first: a coaching tool for preparation, not a judgment.
## Skill Execution Model (READ FIRST)
> See `founder-skills/references/skill-execution-model.md` for the full inline-skill execution model (3 dispatch contexts, Mitigation 1+2, producer contract, Cowork quirks, per-symptom triage).
This skill runs **inline in the main thread**, not as a sub-agent — see the reference above ("Why Inline (Not Forked Sub-Agent)") for the rationale. Sub-agents are deliberately shell-free, so orchestration (producer scripts, artifact persistence) stays in the main thread. **Network note:** this skill's Context A sub-agent declares `WebSearch` in its own tool allowlist and performs its own live competitor research (LANDSCAPE_RESEARCH, MOAT_SCORING, POSITIONING_SCORING) — the main thread does NOT need a research-before-dispatch pass; pass…
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How to install
mdr add lool-ventures/founder-skills/competitive-positioning@sha256:df1a5488d8c474e5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.d891f0d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
lool-ventures/founder-skills · 52 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5pbxmzdm3yzk23jn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lool-ventures/founder-skills/competitive-positioning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df1a5488d8c474e59a332e62b0318c2e68d9060faacab5cb29f5c14429c0850e
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