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marketing-ideas

When the user needs marketing ideas, inspiration, or strategies for their SaaS or software product. Also use when the user asks for 'marketing ideas,' 'growth ideas,' 'how to market,' 'marketing strategies,' 'marketing tactics,' 'ways to promote,' 'ideas to grow,' 'what else can I try,' 'I don't know how to market this,' 'brainstorm marketing,' or 'what marketing should I do.' Use this as a starting point whenever someone is stuck or looking for inspiration on how to grow. For specific channel execution, see the relevant skill (paid-ads, social-content, email-sequence, etc.).

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1.10x
Quality

56%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

85%

1.10x

Average score across 3 eval scenarios

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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SKILL.md
Quality
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Quality

Discovery

54%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description excels at trigger term coverage with a comprehensive list of natural user phrases, and it helpfully delineates its scope from related channel-specific skills. However, it critically lacks specificity about what the skill actually does — it never describes concrete actions or outputs, reading more like a routing rule than a capability description. The 'what' half of completeness is essentially missing.

Suggestions

Add specific concrete actions the skill performs, e.g., 'Generates a prioritized list of marketing tactics, brainstorms channel ideas, and suggests growth strategies tailored to SaaS products.'

Describe the output format or deliverable, e.g., 'Produces a structured brainstorm with categorized marketing ideas across acquisition channels, retention tactics, and viral loops.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description does not list any concrete actions the skill performs. It mentions 'marketing ideas, inspiration, or strategies' but never specifies what it actually does (e.g., generates a list of tactics, produces a marketing plan, brainstorms channel-specific ideas). The language remains abstract and vague about capabilities.

1 / 3

Completeness

The 'when' is thoroughly covered with explicit trigger phrases and use cases. However, the 'what' is very weak — it never clearly states what the skill actually does or produces. It says 'marketing ideas, inspiration, or strategies' but doesn't describe the concrete output or actions taken.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The description includes an extensive list of natural trigger phrases users would actually say: 'marketing ideas,' 'growth ideas,' 'how to market,' 'marketing strategies,' 'I don't know how to market this,' 'brainstorm marketing,' etc. These are realistic, varied, and cover many common phrasings.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The description attempts to carve out a niche by distinguishing itself from channel-specific skills (paid-ads, social-content, email-sequence) and positioning itself as a brainstorming/inspiration starting point. However, 'marketing strategies' and 'marketing tactics' are broad enough to overlap with those channel-specific skills, creating some conflict risk.

2 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Implementation

57%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a well-organized reference skill that serves as an effective index/router for marketing ideas, with good progressive disclosure and clear categorization by stage, budget, and timeline. Its main weaknesses are that the ideas themselves lack concrete implementation detail inline (relying heavily on the external reference file), and the workflow could benefit from explicit validation steps to ensure recommendations truly match the user's situation before diving deeper.

Suggestions

Add 2-3 fully fleshed-out example recommendations using the output format template, so Claude has concrete examples of what good output looks like rather than just a template structure.

Include a brief validation checkpoint in the workflow, e.g., 'After suggesting 3-5 ideas, confirm with the user which resonate before providing detailed implementation steps.'

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The content is reasonably efficient but includes some unnecessary framing ('You are a marketing strategist with a library of 139 proven marketing ideas') and the 'Task-Specific Questions' section tells Claude things it already knows how to do. The quick reference table is well-structured but the numbered references to an external list add some overhead without being directly actionable inline.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides a structured catalog of ideas with stage/budget/timeline breakdowns and a clear output format template, which is useful. However, the actual implementation guidance is thin — 'How to start: First 2-3 implementation steps' is a template instruction rather than concrete guidance, and the ideas themselves are just names/numbers pointing to an external reference file rather than containing executable detail.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

There's a clear 4-step workflow (ask about context, suggest ideas, provide details, consider resources) and the output format is well-defined. However, there's no validation or feedback loop — no step to verify recommendations match the user's constraints, no checkpoint to confirm before diving deep into implementation details, and the workflow for checking product-marketing-context.md could be more explicit about what to do when information is missing vs. partially available.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

Excellent progressive disclosure — the skill provides a concise quick-reference table with categories and examples, then points to 'references/ideas-by-category.md' for the complete list. Related skills are clearly signaled at the bottom with specific cross-references. Content is well-organized into scannable sections without being monolithic.

3 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
coreyhaines31/marketingskills
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