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competitor-tracking from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/competitor-tracking@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jonathimer/devmarketing-skills
Path
skills/competitor-tracking/SKILL.md
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Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Mar 3, 2026
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License
MIT

Systematic competitor analysis for developer tools. Track features, pricing, positioning, content strategy, and community sentiment for direct and indirect competitors. Trigger phrases: "competitor analysis", "track competitors", "competitive intelligence", "competitor research", "what are competitors doing", "competitive landscape", "competitor features", "competitor pricing", "battlecard", "competitive battlecard", "compete against", "vs [competitor]".

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

# Competitor Tracking

Systematic framework for tracking competitors in the developer tools space, from identification through ongoing monitoring and battlecard creation.

## Overview

Competitor tracking for developer tools requires monitoring multiple dimensions: product features, pricing, developer sentiment, content strategy, community growth, and funding/trajectory. Unlike consumer products, developer tools compete on technical merit, documentation quality, and community trust.

Effective competitor tracking helps you:
- Understand your competitive positioning
- Anticipate competitor moves
- Arm sales and marketing with accurate battlecards
- Identify market gaps and opportunities
- Learn from competitor successes and failures

## Competitor Identification

### Types of Competitors

**Direct Competitors:**
- Same category, same target developer
- Solve the same core problem
- Would appear in the same "best X tools" lists
- Example: If you're a CI/CD tool, other CI/CD tools

**Indirect Competitors:**
- Adjacent categories that overlap with your use case
- Might be expanding into your space
- Developers might use instead of your category
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/competitor-tracking@sha256:a5b20eb7c375b170

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 3, 2026.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9106 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

jonathimer/devmarketing-skills · 87 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-03-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dng2bzyb2ctlfmye
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/competitor-tracking
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5b20eb7c375b1702c0fc58e60b49437cfa12b876ddde90edda584498552d32a

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