# intelligence-collection-disciplines

A skill that splits market and competitor research into eight collection channels, then fuses the results. Three weak but independent signals beat one loud claim.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1100 installs · ★ 7673
- Author: deanpeters
- License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/intelligence-collection-disciplines/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/intelligence-collection-disciplines

## What it does

The skill covers eight disciplines: open sources, financial filings, geospatial and demographic data, patents and changelogs, human-source moves and win/loss, web and pricing monitoring plus job posts, operational indicators, and all-source fusion. Every discipline says what to gather, where to find it, which signal-to-inference chains to run, and which PM artifact it feeds: a battle card, a TAM/SAM/SOM estimate, a roadmap bet, pricing.

Why bother with eight? Because each channel fails in its own way. A press release can stretch the truth; a customs record, a patent application and thirty job ads come from three separate bureaucracies that would all have to mislead in the same direction. The skill opens with six variables to fill in: target, market, geography at country level, buyer, suspected strategic move, and the decision the research will change. Author's advice: leave the last one blank and you have a hobby, not research.

Check your access to paid sources before you start, since some disciplines lean on full analyst reports while free alternatives sit in separate columns. Treat the output as reference material: it structures the work, it does not hand you a finished report with numbers.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill intelligence-collection-disciplines -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill intelligence-collection-disciplines -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill intelligence-collection-disciplines -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills intelligence-collection-disciplines
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/intelligence-collection-disciplines/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill intelligence-collection-disciplines -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --path skills/intelligence-collection-disciplines
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill intelligence-collection-disciplines -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/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/intelligence-collection-disciplines/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick collection channels for a specific competitor question
- turn public signals into a defensible inference
- cross-check a suspected competitor move across sources
- build battle card material from reviews and job posts
- back a TAM slide with evidence that survives scrutiny

## Example prompts
- Work through OSINT and SIGINT on this competitor and show me where the signals agree and where they contradict.
- Map signal-to-inference chains from the competitor's patents and job posts, labeling each item fact, inference or assumption.

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