# competitor-analysis

Research competitors, discover additional candidates, and produce an HTML report with feature and pricing comparisons. Use it when you need public competitive evidence.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 659 installs · ★ 3742
- Author: browserbase
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/browserbase/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/competitor-analysis/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-29
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/browserbase-competitor-analysis

## What it does

This skill researches a user’s company and its competitors, with optional seed URLs. It discovers further candidates through the Browserbase Search API, checks candidate relevance, and gathers marketing material, external signals, public benchmarks, and differences from the user’s company.

It writes per-competitor Markdown files, HTML views, a CSV file, and homepage screenshots to a Desktop output directory. The report includes an overview, individual competitor pages, a side-by-side feature and pricing matrix, plus a chronological feed of news, reviews, social posts, comparison pages, and public benchmarks. In deep modes, 5 subagents handle separate research lanes for each competitor.

You need `BROWSERBASE_API_KEY` and the `browse` CLI, installed with `npm install -g browse`. The workflow uses `browse cloud search` for searches and `browse cloud fetch --allow-redirects` for page retrieval; initial runs ask for shell permissions. Check Bash permissions first, because subagents are restricted to Bash.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill competitor-analysis -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill competitor-analysis -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill competitor-analysis -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install browserbase/skills competitor-analysis
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/competitor-analysis/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill competitor-analysis -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/browserbase/skills --path skills/competitor-analysis
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill competitor-analysis -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/browserbase/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/competitor-analysis/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- discover competitors from a company profile
- build a feature and pricing matrix
- find competitor comparison pages
- track news, reviews, and social mentions
- compare public competitor benchmarks

## Example prompts
- Run competitor analysis for my company and create an HTML report.
- Find our competitors and compare their features and pricing with ours.
- Research competitor mentions, comparison pages, and public benchmarks.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: competitor-analysis
description: |
  Competitor research and intelligence skill. Takes a user's company (with optional
  seed competitor URLs), auto-discovers additional competitors via Browserbase Search API,
  deeply researches each using a 4-lane pattern (marketing surface, external signal,
  public benchmarks, strategic diff vs the user's company), and compiles the results
  into an HTML report with four views: overview, per-competitor deep dive, side-by-side
  feature/pricing matrix, and a chronological mentions feed (news, reviews,
  social, comparison pages, and public benchmarks).
  Use when the user wants to: (1) analyze competitors, (2) build a competitive matrix,
  (3) extract competitor pricing / features, (4) find comparison pages and online
  mentions of competitors, (5) surface public benchmarks. Triggers: "competitor analysis",
  "analyze competitors", "competitive intel", "competitor research", "competitor pricing",
  "feature comparison", "price comparison", "find comparisons", "who's comparing us",
  "competitor mentions", "competitor benchmarks".
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires the browse CLI (npm install -g browse) and BROWSERBASE_API_KEY env var
allowed-tools: Bash Agent AskUserQuestion
metadata:
  author: browserbase
  version: "0.2.0"
---

# Competitor Analysis

Analyze a user's competitors. Uses Browserbase Search API for discovery and a 4-lane Plan→Research→Synthesize pattern for enrichment — outputting an HTML report with overview, per-competitor deep dives, a side-by-side feature/pricing matrix, and a chronological mentions feed.

**Required**: `BROWSERBASE_API_KEY` env var and the `browse` CLI installed (`npm install -g browse`).

**First-run setup**: On the first run you'll be prompted to approve `browse cloud fetch`, `browse cloud search`, `cat`, `mkdir`, `sed`, etc. Select **"Yes, and don't ask again for: browse cloud fetch:\*"** (or equivalent) for each. To permanently approve, add these to your `~/.claude/settings.json` under `permissions.allow`:
```json
"Bash(browse:*)", "Bash(bunx:*)", "Bash(bun:*)", "Bash(node:*)",
"Bash(cat:*)", "Bash(mkdir:*)", "Bash(sed:*)", "Bash(head:*)", "Bash(tr:*)", "Bash(rm:*)"
```

**Path rules**: Always use full literal paths in Bash — NOT `~` or `$HOME`. Resolve the home directory once and use it everywhere. When building subagent prompts, replace `{SKILL_DIR}` with the full literal path.

**Output directory**: All output goes to `~/Desktop/{company_slug}_competitors_{YYYY-MM-DD}/`. This directory contains one `.md` file per competitor plus the generated HTML views and CSV.

**CRITICAL — Tool restrictions (applies to main agent AND all subagents)**:
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