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competitive-analysis from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/competitive-analysis@git:20261019.be4abccPins git:20261019.be4abcc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- qa-aman/claude-skills
- Path
skills/by-role/pm/competitive-analysis/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261019.be4abcc, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 3, 2026
- Size
- 3,926 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Conduct a competitive analysis. Use when the user says "competitive analysis", "how do competitors handle X", "market landscape", "blue ocean", "strategy canvas", "what does [competitor] do", "compare us to X", "positioning analysis", "value curve", or wants to understand how a product or feature compares to alternatives - even if they don't explicitly say "competitive analysis". For marketing positioning work that writes to knowledge/markets/competitors.md, see competitor-analyst.
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What the file says
## Overview Based on **"Blue Ocean Strategy"** by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne. Most competitive analysis maps what competitors do and tries to do it better - this is red ocean thinking. Blue Ocean Strategy asks a different question: what can we eliminate, reduce, raise, or create to make competition irrelevant? ## Workflow ### Step 1: Define the scope - Is this for a specific feature or the whole product? - What decision will this analysis inform? - Who are the direct and indirect competitors? Cap at 5-7 competitors. More dilutes the analysis. ### Step 2: Build the Strategy Canvas Plot competitors on a graph: - **X-axis:** Competing factors (price, speed, features, support, UX, etc.) - **Y-axis:** Offering level (low to high) for each factor This is the "as-is" state. Where do all competitors cluster? That cluster is the red ocean. ### Step 3: Apply the Four Actions Framework For each competing factor, ask: | Action | Question | Example | |--------|----------|---------| | **Eliminate** | What do all competitors offer that adds no real value? | Eliminate: complex onboarding wizards | …
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How to install
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/competitive-analysis@sha256:a830d3562a19bd7eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.be4abcc, 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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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Mar 3, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 77 days.
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| git:20261019.be4abcc latest | 2026-10-19 | be4abcc | 3,926 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260303.19bc151 | 2026-03-03 | 19bc151 | 3,824 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260303.f77c189 | 2026-03-03 | f77c189 | 3,206 B | A | view |
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Source
qa-aman/claude-skills · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bwhzo5a4thxx5otu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/competitive-analysis GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a830d3562a19bd7e23b2f9fb00cde3e5fe1e278030378b0dfb81cd4db8dea889
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