What this skill does
Know what your competitors ship before their customers do. Automated monitoring of competitor websites, product pages, pricing, content, and social presence. Detects changes, extracts new features, tracks pricing updates, and alerts you with digestible summaries. Your agent watches the competition 24/7 so you can focus on building. Configure competitor tiers (fierce rivals get deep monitoring, adjacents get high-level), set check frequency, define alert thresholds, and receive smart diffs highlighting what actually matters. Use when setting up competitive intelligence, tracking product launches, monitoring pricing changes, or staying ahead of market moves.
Competitor Watch is part of the Developer Tools category — developer tools that help your agent write, review, debug, and ship code. You can install it on its own or alongside other developer tools skills from the OpenClaw catalog.
How to install Competitor Watch
The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:
- Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
- Open the in-app Skills panel.
- Search for
competitor-watchand click Install. - The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.
Install from the command line
If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Competitor Watch with a single command:
openclaw skills add competitor-watch
This pulls competitor-watch from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/competitor-watch/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.
How to use Competitor Watch
Once installed, Competitor Watch activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.
Manual install (advanced)
If you prefer manual installation:
- Click the Download .zip button above to grab
competitor-watch-1.1.0.zipdirectly from our S3 mirror. - Unzip into
~/.openclaw/skills/competitor-watch/(create the directory if it does not exist). - Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.
Frequently asked questions
How do I install Competitor Watch?
Install Competitor Watch in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for competitor-watch, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add competitor-watch. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/competitor-watch/.
Is Competitor Watch free?
Yes. Competitor Watch is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.
What does Competitor Watch do?
Know what your competitors ship before their customers do.
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Free, open-source · Apache-2.0 · Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or local Ollama models