map-your-market SKILL.md skillA

map-your-market from varnan-tech/opendirectory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add varnan-tech/opendirectory/map-your-market@git:20260916.a03d635

Pins git:20260916.a03d635 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
varnan-tech/opendirectory
Path
skills/map-your-market/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260916.a03d635, committed Sep 16, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 23, 2026
Size
17,060 bytes
Repository stars
699
License
MIT

Given a product description, category keywords, or competitor names (any combination), searches Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub Issues, G2, and Google Trends for the real pains your market experiences, then synthesizes everything into a positioning framework showing who your ICP is, what they say out loud, and exactly how to talk to them. Use when asked to understand a market, find ICP pain points, map competitors, build a positioning doc, find messaging angles, or answer who is my customer and…

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

# Map Your Market

Take a product description, category keywords, or competitor names. Search Reddit, HN, GitHub Issues, G2, and Google Trends for real pain signals. Score and cluster them. Build a complete positioning framework: ICP definition, ranked pain themes with verbatim quotes, market size signals, and messaging angles derived from actual language people use.

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**Critical rule:** Every pain quote in the output must exist verbatim in the raw data collected by the script. Every vendor name in the market map must come from G2 scrape results or GitHub search results. Market size must say "signals suggest" -- never estimate a dollar figure from thin proxies. If a source returns 0 results, report 0 -- do not supplement with invented examples.

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## Common Mistakes

| The agent will want to... | Why that's wrong |
|---|---|
| Invent pain points or market size numbers | Every pain quote must be verbatim from raw data. Market size must cite signals found. Never estimate "typical" market size. |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add varnan-tech/opendirectory/map-your-market@sha256:860d9c07dcd0f9a8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.a03d635, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Apr 23, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 49 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17060 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

varnan-tech/opendirectory · 699 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6w63o77mjoesgvkf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varnan-tech/opendirectory/map-your-market
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/860d9c07dcd0f9a82b5de98a696a6d0bf8831981a92ba3eff046fceb07f4d9f3

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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