Perplexity
Perplexity AIAn answer engine that cites what it used.
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Competitor Scan
Collects what changed on a competitor's site since the last scan.
Use it for
A monthly check on pricing, changelog, and positioning pages
Skip it if
Continuous monitoring — a scan compares two snapshots, it does not watch
What it is
Fetches a fixed list of competitor pages, compares them with the previous snapshot, and reports only the differences with a quote. The value is the diff: a summary of a pricing page is noise, while “the middle tier moved from 20 to 25 dollars” is a fact you can act on.
Install
Clone the repository, then copy the skill folder into your agent's skills directory — ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code. Skills are plain files: no build step, no daemon.
Terminal
npx skills add competitor-scanHow to judge it
Read the SKILL.md before you install. A good skill states when it applies, what it must not do, and how to verify the result. A skill that only lists adjectives will change the agent's tone without improving its output — skip those.
Other research skills
- RAG Eval — Scores retrieval quality on a fixed question set.
- SQL Analyst — Turns a business question into one reviewed query.
- Data Cleaning — Profiles a messy CSV and reports what would break a join.
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