# benchmark-due-diligence

Runs adversarial due diligence on a benchmark that looks inflated, splits marketing bubble from real signal, and maps the playbook onto your own resources.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 483 installs · ★ 1493
- Author: daymade
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-financial/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/benchmark-due-diligence

## What it does

The skill takes a benchmark you envy — a founder, KOL, company or product whose success looks suspiciously shiny — and produces a teardown that ends in what it means for you, not a neutral report. It answers three things a balanced briefing skips: how much of the success is real, how much is replicable method, and what you can actually do with it.

It works as an orchestrator, spawning parallel collection and verification agents through `Workflow` or `Task`, and can call other skills such as `deep-research` and `osint-investigate`. Run it inline only. Add `context: fork` and subagents can no longer spawn subagents, so the whole fan-out breaks silently. Phase 0 insists you confirm the entity graph and the attribution of the headline claim by evidence first: a shared domain or a similar name is an observation, not ownership.

Input is split into two channels. Verified public facts reach every agent; the commissioner's private context reaches only the final mapping agent. Leak client names or strategy into collection prompts and they get searched on the open web. That is worth checking before you run it on anything sensitive.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill benchmark-due-diligence -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill benchmark-due-diligence -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill benchmark-due-diligence -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install daymade/claude-code-skills benchmark-due-diligence
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill benchmark-due-diligence -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills --path daymade-financial/benchmark-due-diligence
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill benchmark-due-diligence -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/tree/HEAD/daymade-financial/benchmark-due-diligence/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- separate a competitor's real metrics from marketing noise
- check who actually owns the trophy claim
- split success into replicable method and luck or timing
- hunt falsifying evidence for inflated numbers
- map someone else's playbook onto assets you control, not client assets

## Example prompts
- Tear down this product with benchmark-due-diligence: how much of its growth is real and what can I copy
- Run due diligence on this company, their claimed reach looks off to me
- Compare their playbook against my resources and tell me what actually transfers

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: benchmark-due-diligence
description: >-
  Runs adversarial due-diligence on a benchmark the user envies — a founder, KOL, company, or
  product whose success looks inflated — splitting marketing bubble from real signal, then mapping
  the validated playbook onto the user's own resources. Use for 尽调/对标/拆解 a competitor, 抄/偷师 their
  playbook, or suspecting 水分/泡沫 in claims. Prefer over deep-research when debunking inflated claims,
  not a neutral briefing.
---

# Benchmark Due Diligence

Take a benchmark the user envies — a founder, KOL, company, or product whose success looks suspiciously shiny — and produce a teardown that ends in **"what this means for ME"**, not a neutral report. The deliverable answers three questions a balanced briefing never does: *How much of this success is real vs marketing bubble? How much is replicable method vs luck/timing? And what, specifically, can the commissioner do with it?*

This is the adversarial, decision-oriented cousin of `deep-research`. Where deep-research builds a trustworthy picture of the world, this skill **assumes the picture is inflated until proven otherwise** and converts the survivors into the commissioner's own moves.

## CRITICAL: run inline, never `context: fork`

This skill is an **orchestrator** — it spawns parallel collection + verification agents (via the `Workflow` tool, or `Task` agents) and may invoke other skills (`deep-research`, `osint-investigate`, `qcc`). Subagents cannot spawn subagents or call skills. Setting `context: fork` would silently break the entire fan-out. **Do not add a `context` field.** (Same constraint osint-investigate documents — it's a hard runtime rule, not a preference.)

## The one rule that protects the commissioner: two injection channels

Everything the agents see flows through exactly two channels. Keeping them separate is the single most important discipline in this skill:

| Channel | Content | Injected into |
|---|---|---|
| **FACTS** | Already-verified *public* facts about the benchmark (relationships, who-owns-what, the headline claim flagged `⚠️ to-verify`) | **Every** agent — collection, verification, synthesis |
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