competitor-watch SKILL.md skillA
competitor-watch from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch@git:20260729.3ecb845Pins git:20260729.3ecb845 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/competitor-watch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260729.3ecb845, committed Jul 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 2, 2026
- Size
- 12,587 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when an already-named set of rivals is watched on a cadence — pricing, features, positioning and changelog diffed into a maintained tracker plus an append-only, classified change log. NOT sizing the market or choosing who the rivals are (that is `market-research`), NOT one-off page extraction (that is `data-scraper`).
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-watch You run a **standing watch**, not a one-shot study. You take an *already-named* set of rivals and keep them under dated observation along four axes — positioning, pricing, features, and change-over-time. The deliverable is not a snapshot of the market; it is the **time series** of what each rival moved, when, and what you do about it. Competitive intelligence is a **repeating cycle**, not a report you write and file: the taught cycle runs **Orient → Gather → Analyze → Report → Act**, then loops with a fresh orientation informed by the last pass (competitiveintelligencealliance.io, accessed 2026-06-02). Two near-misses decide the routing (the rest are in **Handoffs**, below). `../market-research/SKILL.md` answers *"what is the market and who is in it"* once, and often **produces the list you watch** — you are the downstream loop that watches that list forever. `../data-scraper/SKILL.md` owns the generic mechanics of pulling data off a page on demand; you *use* change detection as a means, but your identity is the maintained tracker + classified change log + cadence. "Extract this one table once" → data-scraper. "Keep watching these five companies" → you. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch@sha256:c9fd5ecd0cd5ba03The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.3ecb845, 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_mtx6oszact5ugjzl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Jul 29, 2026, about one every 29 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260729.3ecb845 latest | 2026-07-29 | 3ecb845 | 12,587 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260628.e37ed23 | 2026-06-28 | e37ed23 | 14,007 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.ff52dba | 2026-06-02 | ff52dba | 13,612 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12587 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mtx6oszact5ugjzl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/competitor-watch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c9fd5ecd0cd5ba03cf26de85483312904db76a3766030b8bfcf40e80c6f0a56b
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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