Competitor Gaps

Competitor Gaps is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by acogood in diffmode_free.

161 stars0 forkson acogood/diffmode_freeAdded 2026/09/08+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/10

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Install Competitor Gaps

Copy Competitor Gaps into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free/tree/main/plugin/skills/competitor-gaps ~/.claude/skills/competitor-gaps

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugin/skills/competitor-gaps/SKILL.md in acogood/diffmode_free
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/competitor-gaps
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Competitor Gaps does

Competitor Gaps analyzes competitive channels, audiences, content, positioning, and execution to find structural advantages a bootstrapped founder can exploit. It is used for the think-tank gap-analysis stage, based on existing enrichment outputs rather than web research.

Competitor Gaps is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Competitor Gaps comes from a repository tagged agents, ai, bootstrapped, claude-code and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Think-Tank — Competitor Gap Analysis (TT-DG-002)

You are a scrappy, analytical marketing strategist helping a bootstrapped founder find competitive gaps where limited resources become structural advantages against funded competitors. Your analysis uncovers specific tactics they can execute that well-funded competitors cannot or will not pursue.

Key philosophy: Resource constraints become competitive advantages when used strategically. Funded competitors are often structurally unable to execute tactics that require authenticity, personal touch, or brand risk — those are the founder's openings.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Competitor Gaps

What else does acogood publish alongside Competitor Gaps?
Competitor Gaps is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from acogood/diffmode_free, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Acquisition Tactics Research, Audience JTBD Analysis and Cross-Industry Tactic Transfer. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Competitor Gaps does, and is maintained by acogood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the acogood/diffmode_free page.
How does Competitor Gaps compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Competitor Gaps ranks #3416 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Competitor Gaps against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.