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competitor-research from hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/competitor-research@git:20260819.f995fd2

Pins git:20260819.f995fd2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish
Path: factory/skills/competitor-research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260819.f995fd2, committed Aug 19, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 7, 2026
Size: 2,774 bytes
Repository stars: 10
License: MIT

Map a product's competitive landscape — direct + adjacent competitors, their positioning, naming conventions, and white-space. Persists findings to a per-product competitors file so it compounds over time. Use before naming, positioning, pricing, or GTM — and as the collision baseline for name-clearance.

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-research

## When you activate

- Before **naming** a product (this is phase 1 of `name-product` — it seeds themes and the collision baseline).
- Before positioning, pricing, or GTM.
- Whenever the user asks "who else does this", "competitors", "landscape", "who are we up against".

## What you produce

1. A **competitor table** — direct + adjacent + incumbents.
2. A **naming-conventions read** — what patterns the category uses (to fit or to break).
3. The **white-space** — positioning angles nobody owns.
4. A persisted file: `products/<slug>/competitors.md` (create/update, dedupe) so the picture **compounds** across sessions.

## Protocol

1. **Frame.** One line: what the product does · its category · its ICP. (Pull from the product config / positioning brief if it exists.)
2. **Find, three rings** (WebSearch, a few angles each):
   - **Direct** — same job-to-be-done for the same user.
   - **Adjacent** — overlapping capability or audience (these still cause name collisions).
   - **Incumbents** — the big, generic players everyone compares against.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/competitor-research@sha256:be856dee59248254

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.f995fd2, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wotux66s5mtdnnu4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wotux66s5mtdnnu4)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 7, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 73 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260819.f995fd2 latest	2026-08-19	f995fd2	2,774 B	A	view · diff
git:20260607.37a9b70	2026-06-07	37a9b70	2,427 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2774 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

hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wotux66s5mtdnnu4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/competitor-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/be856dee5924825411df8f9f1c944fff686c398857d045ccf26f97a287bec5d5

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.

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