research-competitors SKILL.md skillA
research-competitors from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/research-competitors@v0.5.1Pins v0.5.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gooseworks-ai/goose-skills
- Path
skills/marketing/research-competitors/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v0.5.1, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 23, 2026
- Size
- 11,966 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,302
- License
- MIT
Competitor research: what every main rival is running, launching, charging and saying now, what works for them, and what that means for you. Use when the marketer asks for competitor research or a teardown, "what ads are my competitors running", "how do they price", "find gaps and angles", "what changed this week" (a weekly watch), or "X just launched / shut down / cut prices" (react now). Also builds a sales battlecard, checks a competitor page's tools/pixels, or studies who engages with…
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
# research-competitors
Competitor research tells the marketer what to do next; it is not a list of ads. Craft: `references/research-spec.md`; worker briefs: its step skills (`research-competitors-<step>`); the report: `references/report-format.md` — next to this file.
**The rule that matters most: free pass first, ask nothing, report once** (`../marketing-guide/research-pattern.md` (in the `marketing-guide` skill) — read it before the first search). For a full teardown, research every dimension for every main rival, browser-only sources included, before the first message; never ask permission for free work or offer to pay for what a free read could get. An ask that names an area ("what ads are they running?") gets that area covered completely, news and launches first.
## Before you start
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/research-competitors@sha256:b7286e9e0f4370e1The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.1, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_euzsqx7qsccxbqrf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v0.5.1 latest | 2026-10-25 | 6fac613 | 11,966 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.1 | 2026-10-24 | 5de8433 | 11,959 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-10-23 | 4cd1948 | 11,959 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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Source
gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,302 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_euzsqx7qsccxbqrf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/research-competitors GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b7286e9e0f4370e18100351ad5dddef832b781d597d38ad13a702469c42307d0
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.