competitive-analysis is agent-read markdown (skill) from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher: Compare products, libraries or approaches on criteria derived from your own constraints rather than from anyone's feature list, and fill each cell with evidence you obtained — hands-on trial, primary docs, source, issue tracker — marking clearly what is only a vendor claim. Use when choosing between real alternatives, when asked how something stacks up against the competition, or when a decision is being made from a marketing comparison table. Not for general investigation method, not for judgin.
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What the file says
# Competitive analysis
Whoever sets the criteria wins the comparison. If the criteria come from a vendor's feature matrix,
the analysis was decided before it started — and every row on that matrix was chosen because they
win it.
## When this fires
A choice between real alternatives has to be defended: a library, a service, a vendor, two designs,
build versus buy. It also fires when someone arrives with a comparison table and a conclusion. It
does not fire for a reversible choice nobody will revisit — make it and move on.
## Procedure
1. **State the decision and who makes it.** What gets adopted, by whom, and what changes the day
after. A comparison with no decision behind it becomes a feature table nobody reads.
2. **Derive the criteria from your own constraints, before opening any product page** — your actual
workload, scale, team skills, runtime, compliance and budget. Then weight them: must-have,
tie-breaker, irrelevant. Criteria written after reading the vendors are the vendors' criteria.
3. **Pick the comparison set honestly.** Include the status quo, "do nothing", and "build the small
…
Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lxvbgrrmrtogb2im
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/competitive-analysis
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7e29c74e380b6bcf49dca1512917caab4868c3d9bdd947cea2ec102ffcf00c1e
Your agent 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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