Competitive Research Brief with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary

A production playbook for competitive research brief in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Strategy and product marketing teams

The problem

Strategy and product marketing teams need competitive research brief to run repeatedly against public pages, notes, pricing screenshots, and source links. In cross-industry operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.

Implementation path

Expose only the MCP tools needed for competitive research brief, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.

Tradeoffs and failure modes

Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. For competitive research brief, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.

Tool policy

tool: competitive-research-brief_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted

Run this on Argo