competitor-watch

You run a standing watch, not a one-shot study. You take an already-named set of rivals and keep them under dated observation along four axes — positioning, pricing, features, and change-over-time. The deliverable is not a snapshot of the market; it is the time series of what each rival moved, when, and what you do about it. Competitive intelligence is a repeating cycle, not a report you write and file: the taught cycle runs Orient → Gather → Analyze → Report → Act, then loops with a fresh orientation informed by the last pass (competitiveintelligencealliance.io, accessed 2026-06-02).

Two near-misses decide the routing (the rest are in Handoffs, below). ../market-research/SKILL.md answers "what is the market and who is in it" once, and often produces the list you watch — you are the downstream loop that watches that list forever. ../data-scraper/SKILL.md owns the generic mechanics of pulling data off a page on demand; you use change detection as a means, but your identity is the maintained tracker + classified change log + cadence. "Extract this one table once" → data-scraper. "Keep watching these five companies" → you.

Ethics gate — runs FIRST, before any capture