competitor-spy
Reverse-engineer successful affiliate strategies from competitors. Use this skill when the user asks about spying on competitors, researching what other affiliates promote, analyzing competitor affiliate sites, understanding how top affiliates in a niche make money, or says "what programs does X promote", "how does [site] make money", "what affiliate strategy does this site use", "spy on competitor affiliates", "reverse engineer affiliate site", "copy what works in my niche", "who are the top affiliates in X niche", "what content gets traffic in my niche", "competitor affiliate analysis".
npx skills add Affitor/affiliate-skills --skill competitor-spy --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Competitor Spy Analyze competitor affiliate sites, YouTube channels, and social profiles to surface which programs they promote, what content drives their traffic, and which strategies are worth replicating. Outputs an actionable reverse-engineering report so you can skip years of trial and error. ## Stage This skill belongs to Stage S1: Research ## When to Use - User wants to know what programs are working in a specific niche - User has a competitor site/channel in mind and wants to understand their strategy - User is entering a new niche and wants a shortcut to what works - User wants to find underserved content gaps a competitor hasn't covered - User asks "how do top affiliates in [niche] make money?" ## Input Schema ``` { competitor_url: string # (optional) Direct URL to competitor site, channel, or profile niche: string # (optional) Niche to analyze if no specific competitor given platform: string # (optional) "blog" | "youtube" | "tiktok" | "twitter" | "newsletter" depth: string # (optional, default: "standard") "quick" | "standard" | "deep" focus: string # (optional) "programs" | "content" | "traffic" | "all" } ``` ## Workflow ### Step 1: Identify Competitors to Analyze If
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- When to Use
- Input Schema
- Workflow
- Step 1: Identify Competitors to Analyze
- Step 2: Identify Affiliate Programs They Promote
- Step 2.5: Analyze Competitor Content Engagement (data-driven)
- Step 3: Analyze Their Content Strategy
- Step 4: Find Content Gaps
- Step 5: Score Competitor Strategies
- Step 6: Build the Intelligence Report
- Step 7: Self-Validation
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What does the competitor-spy skill do?
Reverse-engineer successful affiliate strategies from competitors. Use this skill when the user asks about spying on competitors, researching what other affiliates promote, analyzing competitor affiliate sites, understanding how top affiliates in a niche make money, or says "what programs does X promote", "how does [site] make money", "what affiliate strategy does this site use", "spy on competitor affiliates", "reverse engineer affiliate site", "copy what works in my niche", "who are the top affiliates in X niche", "what content gets traffic in my niche", "competitor affiliate analysis".
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add Affitor/affiliate-skills --skill competitor-spy --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From Affitor/affiliate-skills, a repository with 586 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.