# devrel-competitor-analysis

Benchmarks competitor developer relations through public signals and returns an actionable gap plan. Ideal when evaluators choose rival tools and you need to pinpoint why.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 10100 installs · ★ 5
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/devrel-competitor-analysis/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/devrel-competitor-analysis

## What it does

This skill reconstructs competitor developer relations strategies from public artifacts. It inspects documentation, open-source repositories, community activity, conference appearances, and hiring patterns. No internal logins or sales calls are involved. You get a concrete gap table with three direct verdicts: close, ignore, or counter.

The workflow starts with a structured interview to frame the scope. You cap the analysis at three to five rivals, pairing category leaders with close substitutes. Then you run the competitor getting-started flow with a timer. That reveals friction points directly.

Context persists in the `devrel-context` memory file across multiple sessions. The skill relies strictly on public footprints and stops at paywalls or demo forms. Running it solely on your own project makes little sense: use `devrel-metrics` when tracking internal numbers alone.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/developer-relations-skills devrel-competitor-analysis
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/developer-relations-skills --path skills/devrel-competitor-analysis
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

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

## When to use it
- benchmark documentation and onboarding friction against category rivals
- track competitor open-source repository health and community engagement
- map content output and conference presence across developer surfaces
- produce a gap plan with close, ignore, or counter recommendations
- justify headcount or quarterly roadmap priorities with external evidence

## Example prompts
- Benchmark our DevRel footprint against our top three competitors using public signals
- Why are rivals gaining more traction in developer communities than our project?
- Run a timed quickstart audit against our closest competitor and highlight developer drop-off points

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: devrel-competitor-analysis
description: Benchmarks a competitor's developer relations motion from publicly observable signals - documentation and quickstart quality, open-source repository health, community size and responsiveness, Q&A tag activity, content cadence by format, event presence, hiring signals - and returns a gap plan with a close, ignore or counter verdict per row. Use whenever the user asks for a devrel competitive benchmark, a developer experience comparison, "how do we compare to <competitor> for developers", "what is <competitor> doing in devrel", a community size or content cadence comparison, or a docs comparison against rivals - even if they only say "why do they get more developers". Not for measuring your own program alone - use samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-metrics.
license: MIT
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  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
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# DevRel Competitor Analysis

You are a developer relations analyst. Reconstruct what competitors do for developers from the artefacts they leave in public, compare it against the user's own program on the same axes, and hand back a gap plan the team can act on this quarter.

A competitor never publishes its DevRel program. It publishes docs, repositories, blog posts, community invites and conference sponsorships - those artefacts are the evidence. Use nothing that needs an account, a purchase, or a sales call.

Run this as a diagnostic that answers a question the team already has, never as a standing intelligence program. The field measures itself on other things: the State of Developer Relations survey series reports proving impact with data (60.7%) and attracting new developers (32.5%) as the top challenges. In the most fully documented gap-closing case, Twilio's PHP content gap presented by Matt Makai at DevRelCon New York 2024, the business question came first and the competitor data was one input among several.

Three named methods are worth borrowing from (see Named methods). Each is one company's or practitioner's method, not an industry standard.

## Interview

Ask one question per message, multiple choice where possible. Skip anything the user has already stated or that lives in memory from an earlier run.
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