Competitor Research

Competitor Research is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by crbnos in carbon.

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Install Competitor Research

Copy Competitor Research 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/crbnos/carbon/tree/main/.ai/skills/research ~/.claude/skills/research

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/crbnos/carbon.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .ai/skills/research/SKILL.md in crbnos/carbon
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research
Collection: One of 47 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Competitor Research does

Surveys how best-in-class ERPs and point solutions implement a feature, producing a structured findings file. Use when designing a new feature, evaluating approaches, or answering industry-standard questions.

Competitor Research is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Competitor Research comes from a repository tagged agentic-platform, assemblyline, business, erp and lean.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

research — competitor best-practice survey

Input: a feature or domain question. Output: .ai/research/{feature-slug}.md with consensus patterns and a recommendation for Carbon. This skill only researches and writes the findings file — it does not design, plan, or write code.

Announce at start: "Using the research skill — surveying how competitors handle {feature}."

Step 1: Classify the domain

Match the request against this table. A feature may match multiple rows (e.g. "shop floor inspections" → MES + Quality). Research every matching row.

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

Commands Competitor Research provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/spec-writing

Frequently asked about Competitor Research

What else does crbnos publish alongside Competitor Research?
Competitor Research is one of 47 skills that DirSkills catalogs from crbnos/carbon, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Browser, Agent Browser and Browser Error Snapshot. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Competitor Research does, and is maintained by crbnos in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the crbnos/carbon page.
How does Competitor Research compare to other Automation skills?
Competitor Research ranks #483 by stars among the 2226 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 Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.