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Stalk Bot
Signs up for your competitors' newsletters and products under its own research email, walks their onboarding on video, and watches their site, pricing, changelog, jobs, and X. Each pulse reports what changed against your positioning and closes with counterpositioning moves, and it never posts or contacts anyone.
Instructions
From the MarketplaceSkills
From the Marketplacestalk-setup
Use on first run or to change company, competitors, gameplan, cadence, or identity. Minimal-button, time-to-first-value setup: company → competitor shortlist → gameplan → spin inbox and show proof.
modules
The 13 per-competitor modules, what each does, defaults, and the gameplan-first rule for presenting them. Read during setup, add-competitor, and whenever the user asks what I can watch.
identity-ladder
How I obtain and run research identities: the source ladder (teammate identity bot, AgentMail plugin, AgentMail key, self sign-up, existing inbox, Gmail), the AgentMail REST shape for when I hold a key, display-name rules, the bot-to-bot AUTH protocol, and why I use my own email. Read before creating any inbox or signing up anywhere.
profile-us
Use at setup and whenever the user's own positioning, pricing, or product changes. Builds the baseline every delta is measured against.
subscribe
Use to get a competitor's research identity onto their newsletter, blog updates, product updates, and waitlists.
walk-the-product
Default-on module. Sign up, walk onboarding on video, then aggressively test every feature you can reach with test data, recording a clip and screenshots per feature. Ends with a self-contained HTML teardown report. Handles web, open-source, and downloadable products with explicit fallbacks.
snapshot-site
Default-on modules for website, pricing, changelog, positioning drift, and open roles. Fetches watched pages, diffs against the last snapshot, screenshots everything, stores, and writes a hiring direction read.
read-the-mail
Use for the newsletter pulse and sequence anatomy modules. Reads new mail at each competitor's research identity since the last pulse, classifies it, extracts positioning and offers.
watch-x
Default-on module. Uses the X connector to track competitor product and founder handles plus brand mentions since the last pulse, builds a dated "what they shipped" timeline per competitor, and mines complaints. Read-only: never follow, like, reply, post, or DM.
pulse
Use for the scheduled pulse or when the user says "run a pulse". Runs every enabled module for every competitor, reads the dossiers, writes the delta report with Shipped, Hiring direction, Against-us, Website pros/cons, and For-our-site, with screenshots attached.
evidence-media
How I capture visual evidence: exhaustive screenshots on every pass, a mandatory onboarding video and a clip per key feature for every product walkthrough, and how the recording is produced. Read before any walkthrough, pulse, or test drive.
html-report
Build the self-contained HTML report that closes every teardown, every pulse with changes, and the onboarding test drive. Every image and video is embedded as a data URI so the file renders with zero missing assets anywhere. Verify by opening it in the browser before delivering.
teardown
Use on demand for a side-by-side onboarding comparison between one competitor and the user's product.
battlecard
Use on demand to turn a competitor dossier into a battlecard draft. Draft only, handed to a writing bot if one exists.
competitor-churn
Opt-in module. Detect the user's customers lost to a watched competitor from a source they name, attribute the competitor, write a facts brief, and hand the winback body to the user's writing bot or a marked skeleton. Use when the churn module is on, when the churn watch routine fires, or when the user says they lost a customer.
feature-matrix
Use on demand or in the pulse when enabled. Features by competitor from the dossiers, with cells changed since last pulse highlighted.
add-competitor
Use when the user names a new competitor. Provisions an identity, creates the dossier, asks for modules, runs the first pass.
drop-competitor
Use when the user stops watching a competitor. Unsubscribes the research identity, archives the dossier, removes it from the pulse.
demo-pulse
Run the full delivery shape on clearly labeled EXAMPLE data for a demo, a screenshot, or a dry run, without touching real competitors, inboxes, or customers. Use when the user says demo, sample, show me what a pulse looks like, or before any connector is wired.
Routines
From the MarketplaceCompetitor pulse
Disabled by default. Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am in the user's timezone (user can pick daily, weekly, or a custom cron). Runs every enabled module for every competitor and delivers the live brief with media, Against-us, For-our-site, Worth a decision, and Proactive suggestions. Quiet when nothing changed.
Weekly deep dive
Disabled by default. Friday 10am, one competitor in rotation. Re-walks the product on video, re-runs the feature test pass, diffs against the previous teardown, and delivers a self-contained HTML report. Report only.
Competitor churn watch
Disabled by default and only useful once a churn source is named. Weekdays at 10am in the user's timezone. Scans the churn source for customers lost to a watched competitor, writes the facts brief, and hands the winback body to the user's writing bot or a marked skeleton. Never sends. Quiet when there are no new cases.
Connectors
From the MarketplaceAgentMail
Preferred. Research inboxes for newsletters, trials, and sales sequences. Create inboxes and read mail via the plugin MCP.
X
Needed for the X radar and complaint mining modules. Read-only: posts, mentions, replies for competitor and founder handles.
Gmail
Fallback only. Used when you choose your own Gmail instead of AgentMail for research identities. Puts newsletters and trials on your address.
Slack
Optional. Deliver the pulse to a channel you name instead of this chat.
Salesforce
Optional, churn module only. Read closed-lost opportunities and the competitor or reason field to detect customers lost to a watched competitor. Read only. A sheet or a paste works instead.
Google Sheets
Optional, churn module only. A sheet of lost customers with competitor and reason columns, when there is no CRM. Read only.
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