Agent skill

Competitive Battlecard

by phuryn in phuryn/pm-skills

Create sales-ready competitive battlecards comparing your product against a specific competitor — positioning, feature comparison, objection handling, and win/loss patterns.

MITAuto-check passedSales & Support

Install Competitive Battlecard

skills CLI
$ npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill competitive-battlecard -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install phuryn/pm-skills competitive-battlecard --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/pm-go-to-market/skills/competitive-battlecard .claude/skills/competitive-battlecard && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
competitive-battlecard
GitHub stars
27k
Token cost
~721 tokens
SKILL.md length
300 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
67
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Create sales-ready competitive battlecards comparing your product against a specific competitor — positioning, feature comparison, objection handling, and win/loss patterns.

  • Works in 3 steps: Research the competitor (use web search) → Create the battlecard with these sections → Keep it scannable: Sales reps need to…
  • Preparing sales teams
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Creating competitive materials

What it does

Competitive Battlecard is an agent skill from phuryn/pm-skills. Create sales-ready competitive battlecards comparing your product against a specific competitor — positioning, feature comparison, objection handling, and win/loss patterns. Use when preparing sales teams, creating competitive materials, or responding to 'why not competitor X?'

Its SKILL.md is about 720 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Sales & Support, covering Sales enablement and Competitor analysis. The repository describes itself as: PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ agentic skills, commands, and plugins — from discovery to strategy, execution, launch, and growth. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Preparing sales teams
  • Creating competitive materials
  • Responding to why not competitor X?

Example prompts

  • “why not competitor X?”
  • “/competitive-battlecard”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Research the competitor (use web search)
  2. Create the battlecard with these sections
  3. Keep it scannable: Sales reps need to reference this during calls. Use tables, bold text, and short bullets.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6058e29. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • productcompass.pm

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Competitive Battlecard loads about 721 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 300 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~721

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from phuryn/pm-skills at commit 6058e29, republished under its MIT licence (© phuryn). 300 words, ~721 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/competitive-battlecard/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
competitive-battlecard
description
Create sales-ready competitive battlecards comparing your product against a specific competitor — positioning, feature comparison, objection handling, and win/loss patterns. Use when preparing sales teams, creating competitive materials, or responding to 'why not competitor X?'

Competitive Battlecard

Create a concise, sales-ready battlecard for use against a specific competitor.

Context

You are creating a competitive battlecard for $ARGUMENTS.

Use web search to research the competitor's current product, pricing, positioning, and recent changes. If the user provides files (feature lists, win/loss data, sales call notes), read them first.

Instructions
  1. Research the competitor (use web search):

    • Current product offerings and features
    • Pricing tiers and model
    • Target market and positioning
    • Recent product launches or changes
    • Known strengths and weaknesses
    • Customer reviews and sentiment (G2, Capterra, Reddit)
  2. Create the battlecard with these sections:

    Company Overview
    • Founded, HQ, funding/revenue (if public)
    • Target market and ICP
    • Positioning in one sentence
    Quick Comparison
    CapabilityUsThemWinner
    [Feature area 1][Our approach][Their approach][Us/Them/Tie]
    [Feature area 2].........
    Pricing.........
    Support.........
    Where We Win
    • [Advantage 1]: [Proof point or customer quote]
    • [Advantage 2]: [Specific capability they lack]
    • [Advantage 3]: [Better approach with reasoning]
    Where They Win
    • [Their strength 1]: [Our counter-positioning]
    • [Their strength 2]: [How we mitigate this gap]
    Common Objections & Responses
    Prospect SaysRespond With
    "Competitor X has [feature]""[Our alternative approach and why it's better for them]"
    "They're cheaper""[Value framing: total cost of ownership, ROI, hidden costs]"
    "They're more established""[Our advantages: speed, innovation, focus, support]"
    Landmines to Plant

    Questions to ask the prospect that highlight competitor weaknesses:

    • "How important is [area where we excel] to your team?"
    • "Have you evaluated [specific capability they lack]?"
    Win/Loss Patterns
    • We tend to win when: [pattern]
    • We tend to lose when: [pattern]
    • Key differentiator in competitive deals: [what tips the scale]
  3. Keep it scannable: Sales reps need to reference this during calls. Use tables, bold text, and short bullets.

Save as markdown. Format for easy printing or sharing in Notion/Confluence.


Further Reading

© phuryn, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in pm-go-to-market/skills/competitive-battlecard of phuryn/pm-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6058e29

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Questions about Competitive Battlecard

What does Competitive Battlecard do?

Create sales-ready competitive battlecards comparing your product against a specific competitor — positioning, feature comparison, objection handling, and win/loss patterns. Competitive Battlecard is an agent skill from phuryn/pm-skills. Create sales-ready competitive battlecards comparing your product against a specific competitor — positioning, feature comparison, objection handling, and win/loss patterns.

When should I use Competitive Battlecard?

Competitive Battlecard fits situations like: preparing sales teams; creating competitive materials; responding to why not competitor X?.

How do I install Competitive Battlecard in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill competitive-battlecard -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (pm-go-to-market/skills/competitive-battlecard in phuryn/pm-skills) into .claude/skills/competitive-battlecard in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Competitive Battlecard in Codex?

Run `npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill competitive-battlecard -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (pm-go-to-market/skills/competitive-battlecard in phuryn/pm-skills) into .agents/skills/competitive-battlecard in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Competitive Battlecard in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill competitive-battlecard -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/competitive-battlecard, .gemini/skills/competitive-battlecard, .github/skills/competitive-battlecard and .opencode/skills/competitive-battlecard in your project.

What does Competitive Battlecard need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Competitive Battlecard is instructions for the agent only.

Does Competitive Battlecard access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: productcompass.pm. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Competitive Battlecard safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Competitive Battlecard use?

Competitive Battlecard is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Competitive Battlecard use?

About 721 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Competitive Battlecard?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Competitive Battlecard: Sales Enablement Kit (aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills, 2.9k stars), Battlecards (growthack88/growth-marketing-os, 116 stars), Battlecard Generator (gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, 1.2k stars) and Gtm Competitive Battlecard Writer (criptogus/agent-evolve-network, 288 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Competitive Battlecard?

phuryn (a GitHub user) maintains it in phuryn/pm-skills, which has 26,862 GitHub stars. The repository holds 67 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: phuryn/pm-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.