# SKILL: Competitive Intelligence Agent Skill

## Purpose
Produce a grounded competitor brief that compares positioning, offers, pricing signals, proof, and likely weaknesses.

## When to Use
Use this when the user needs to: Produce a grounded competitor brief that compares positioning, offers, pricing signals, proof, and likely weaknesses. It is designed for repeatable agent or automation work, not one-off fluffy prompting.

## Inputs Required
- Competitor names
- Your offer
- Market segment
- Research depth
- Decision to support

## Workflow
1. Collect current public evidence from authoritative pages
2. Summarise each competitor without hype
3. Compare claims, proof, pricing, and audience
4. Identify defensible differentiation
5. Flag claims requiring verification

## Output Format
Competitor matrix with citations, opportunities, and messaging risks.

## Quality Rules
- Ground every claim in supplied inputs or clearly mark it as an assumption.
- Prefer specific fields, examples, and decision points over generic advice.
- Include a test command and pass criteria so the skill can be evaluated.
- Keep the output usable by a human first and automation-ready second.

## Guardrails
- Do not send emails, publish posts, contact leads, change calendars, spend money, delete data, or alter production systems without explicit human approval.
- Do not invent facts, private details, legal claims, prices, or external data.
- For web or profile research, use current sources and separate evidence from inference.
- For connected tools, use the minimum permission needed and log the action taken.

## Test Command
Run this skill on a simple example for Competitive Intelligence Agent Skill and return the expected output structure plus any missing inputs.