Competitive Intel Example

A portable Agent Skill for sizing up a company, product, or market. It combines you-research synthesis with you-contents page extraction through the standard You.com MCP server so the agent produces a consistent brief covering positioning, traction, pricing, recent moves, and sources.

What You’ll Build

A SKILL.md package that turns company, product, or market prompts into a fixed competitive brief. The skill uses you-research for synthesis and you-contents for high-signal primary pages such as pricing, product docs, and recent company announcements.

When It Fires

The user names a company or market and wants it structured: positioning, traction, pricing, and recent moves.

Prerequisites

Install the Skill

1. Connect your agent harness to the You.com MCP server—see the MCP server guide.
2. Save the skill below as SKILL.md in your harness’s skills directory (or download it).
3. The agent invokes you-research and you-contents whenever the trigger fires.

The Skill

---
name: competitive-intel
description: Use when the user wants a structured read on a company, product, or market - "size up competitor X", "what's the landscape for Y", "build me a battlecard". Produces a brief, not a chat answer.
---
# Competitive intelligence (You.com)
## When This Fires
The user names a company or market and wants it structured: positioning,
traction, pricing, recent moves.
## How to Retrieve
1. Run `you-research` through the standard You.com MCP server for the entity
   and its category.
2. Use `you-contents` to pull full text from the highest-signal sources - the
   company's own pages, recent coverage.
3. Output a fixed brief: one-line summary, what they sell, signals of traction,
   recent moves, sources.

Example Output

# Competitive brief: Acme AI
## One-Line Summary
Acme AI sells workflow automation for regulated support teams, with recent
positioning focused on compliance and auditability.
## What They Sell
- AI case triage and response drafting
- Supervisor review queues
## Signals of Traction
- New enterprise case studies in financial services
Sources:
[1] Company pricing page
[2] Company changelog

Next Steps