# Channel Competitor Analysis

> Reverse-engineer any creator, channel, profile, or single viral post to extract the hooks, formats, content pillars, posting cadence, engagement patterns, and exploitable weaknesses behind their growth. Use when the user wants to analyze a competitor/account/video, understand why something went viral, find gaps to attack, or model a winning channel. Trigger on "analyze this profile/channel/video"…

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-moses607-socialforge-channel-competitor-analysis`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [moses607](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/moses607)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Content & Media](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/content-and-media)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [moses607](https://github.com/moses607)
- **Source:** https://github.com/moses607/socialforge/tree/main/skills/channel-competitor-analysis

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-moses607-socialforge-channel-competitor-analysis
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Channel & Competitor Analysis

Growth leaves fingerprints. Every channel that works is running a repeatable system — a few pillars, a hook style, a format, a cadence — and you can read it off their public output. The goal is not to copy; it's to find the **pattern they're exploiting** and the **gap they're leaving open** for you.

## Inputs

Ask for (or work with what's given): the profile/handle, 5-20 of their recent posts (ideally their top performers), and follower/engagement numbers if available. If you only have a URL, work from titles, hooks, thumbnails, and visible metrics.

## Method

1. **Separate outliers from baseline.** Rank their posts by engagement relative to *their own* average. The 2-3× outliers are the signal — that's what the audience actually wants. The baseline is filler.
2. **Decode the outliers** on five axes:
   - **Hook** — the opening move and archetype (see `hook-machine`).
   - **Format** — talking-head, listicle, story, tutorial, reaction, B-roll+VO.
   - **Pillar** — the recurring topic/theme it belongs to.
   - **Emotion** — what it makes the viewer feel (status, fear, curiosity, belonging, aspiration).
   - **Structure** — hook → escalation → payoff → CTA; where retention is engineered.
3. **Map the pillars.** Cluster all posts into 3-5 content pillars; note the % of output and % of total engagement per pillar. The high-engagement/low-output pillar is an underexploited vein.
4. **Read the cadence & funnel.** Posting frequency, best-performing times, and how they convert attention (link in bio, series, lead magnet, product).
5. **Find the weaknesses (your opening).** Where are they weak or absent? Common gaps: no strong hooks, no series/retention loop, ignoring a platform, weak CTA, a pillar their audience loves but they underserve, poor production, or a tone that alienates a sub-segment.

## Output template

```
## Analysis: 
Baseline vs outliers: avg engagement ; outliers 

### What's working (their winning system)
Pillars (share of output / share of engagement): 
Hook style:   | Dominant format:   | Core emotion: 
Cadence & best times:   | Conversion path: 

### Why the outliers hit

### Their weaknesses = your openings

### Attack plan for you

```

## Rules

- Analyze outliers, not averages — the average post tells you what didn't work.
- Model the system, don't clone the posts. Copying a viral video a week late loses; stealing its *mechanism* wins.
- Always end with an attack plan — analysis without an action is trivia.
- Separate "what they do" from "what actually drives their engagement" — creators are often wrong about their own hits.
- Note production floor: if their weakness is low effort, your opening is craft; if it's craft, your opening is speed/volume or a sharper niche.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [moses607](https://github.com/moses607)
- **Source:** [moses607/socialforge](https://github.com/moses607/socialforge)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-moses607-socialforge-channel-competitor-analysis
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/moses607
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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