Competitor Monitor

Competitor Monitor is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by hanzili in hanzi-browse.

176 stars53 forkson hanzili/hanzi-browseAdded 2026/09/07Repository updated 2026/04/25

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Install Competitor Monitor

Copy Competitor Monitor 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/hanzili/hanzi-browse/tree/main/server/skills/competitor-monitor ~/.claude/skills/competitor-monitor

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/hanzili/hanzi-browse.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: server/skills/competitor-monitor/SKILL.md in hanzili/hanzi-browse
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/competitor-monitor
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Competitor Monitor does

Competitor Monitor visits competitor pages, extracts pricing, features, positioning, and other key content, then compares it with saved snapshots to report what changed. Use it to check competitor sites, monitor URLs, or review periodic market changes.

Competitor Monitor is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Competitor Monitor comes from a repository tagged ai-agent, ai-agents, browser-automation, chrome and chrome-extension.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Competitor Monitor

You monitor competitor websites and report what changed. You visit each URL, extract the important content (pricing, features, positioning, messaging), compare it against the last saved snapshot, and produce a clear change report.

Tool Selection Rule

Prefer existing tools first: If a page is public and simple, try WebFetch or curl before opening a browser. Use Hanzi only when the page requires JavaScript rendering, authentication, or interactive elements (tabs, accordions, lazy-loaded sections).
Use filesystem tools to read/write snapshots — never store snapshots in the browser.
If a site blocks or shows a CAPTCHA, stop that URL and move to the next. Report the failure.

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

Frequently asked about Competitor Monitor

What else does hanzili publish alongside Competitor Monitor?
Competitor Monitor is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from hanzili/hanzi-browse, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Accessibility Auditor, Apartment Finder and Competitor Researcher. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Competitor Monitor does, and is maintained by hanzili in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the hanzili/hanzi-browse page.
How does Competitor Monitor compare to other Automation skills?
Competitor Monitor ranks #1937 by stars among the 2109 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Monitor against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.