When the user wants to apply psychological principles, mental models, or behavioral science to marketing. Also use when the user mentions 'psychology,' 'mental models,' 'cognitive bias,' 'persuasion,' 'behavioral science,' 'why people buy,' 'decision-making,' 'consumer behavior,' 'anchoring,' 'social proof,' 'scarcity,' 'loss aversion,' 'framing,' or 'nudge.' Use this whenever someone wants to understand or leverage how people think and make decisions in a marketing context. For applying psychology to specific pages, see cro; for pricing tactics, see pricing; for copy framing, see copywriting.
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./skills/marketing-psychology/SKILL.mdQuality
Discovery
89%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a strong description with excellent trigger term coverage and explicit disambiguation from related skills. Its main weakness is that it focuses more on the domain and when to use it than on listing specific concrete actions the skill performs. Adding 2-3 specific capabilities (e.g., 'identifies relevant cognitive biases, recommends persuasion frameworks, analyzes decision-making patterns') would make it even stronger.
Suggestions
Add specific concrete actions the skill performs, e.g., 'Identifies relevant cognitive biases, recommends persuasion frameworks, maps consumer decision-making patterns, and suggests behavioral nudges for marketing campaigns.'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | The description names the domain (psychological principles in marketing) and mentions some actions like 'apply' and 'leverage how people think,' but it doesn't list multiple specific concrete actions the skill performs (e.g., 'identifies cognitive biases in campaigns, recommends persuasion frameworks, maps decision-making patterns'). | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (apply psychological principles and behavioral science to marketing) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when' clause with extensive trigger terms). It also includes helpful disambiguation pointing to related skills (cro, pricing, copywriting). | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms users would say: 'psychology,' 'mental models,' 'cognitive bias,' 'persuasion,' 'behavioral science,' 'why people buy,' 'decision-making,' 'consumer behavior,' 'anchoring,' 'social proof,' 'scarcity,' 'loss aversion,' 'framing,' and 'nudge.' These are highly natural and comprehensive. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The description explicitly disambiguates from related skills (cro for specific pages, pricing for pricing tactics, copywriting for copy framing), creating a clear niche focused on psychological principles and mental models in marketing. This cross-referencing significantly reduces conflict risk. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
27%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill is essentially a comprehensive encyclopedia of marketing psychology concepts that Claude already knows, making it extremely token-inefficient. While well-organized with clear categories and a useful quick-reference table, the content adds very little beyond what Claude could generate from its training data. The skill would be far more effective as a concise decision framework pointing to specific application guides, rather than re-teaching dozens of well-known psychological principles.
Suggestions
Drastically reduce content to only what Claude doesn't already know: remove definitions of well-known concepts (anchoring, social proof, loss aversion, etc.) and focus on the specific application framework, decision logic, and output format you want Claude to follow when applying psychology to marketing.
Split the monolithic file into category-specific reference files (e.g., pricing-psychology.md, persuasion-tactics.md, growth-models.md) and make SKILL.md a concise overview with the quick-reference table and links to detailed files.
Add a concrete workflow with a structured output format—e.g., when a user asks about low conversions, show exactly what the analysis output should look like (which models apply, specific recommendations, implementation steps, testing plan).
Include 1-2 worked examples showing input (user's marketing challenge) → output (structured psychological analysis with specific, actionable recommendations) to make the skill truly actionable rather than encyclopedic.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | This is extremely verbose at ~400+ lines, essentially a textbook of psychological concepts Claude already knows well. Definitions like 'Sunk Cost Fallacy: People continue investing in something because of past investment' and 'Anchoring Effect: The first number people see heavily influences subsequent judgments' are explaining basic concepts Claude has deep knowledge of. Very little here is novel information that Claude couldn't generate on its own. | 1 / 3 |
Actionability | Each model includes a 'Marketing application' paragraph with concrete-ish guidance, but these are brief descriptions rather than executable steps, specific frameworks, or copy-paste templates. There are no code examples, no specific implementation scripts, no concrete output formats, and no worked examples showing input→output transformations. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The skill provides a useful quick reference table mapping challenges to models, task-specific diagnostic questions, and a 4-step process at the top (identify models → explain psychology → provide applications → implement ethically). However, there's no clear workflow for actually applying these models to a specific marketing problem—no validation steps, no decision tree for selecting which models to use, and no structured output format. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | This is a monolithic wall of text with 50+ mental models all inline in a single file. There are no bundle files, and the content would benefit enormously from splitting into separate files (e.g., pricing-psychology.md, persuasion-models.md, growth-models.md) with the SKILL.md serving as a concise overview with references. The related skills section at the bottom is helpful but doesn't compensate for the massive inline content. | 1 / 3 |
Total | 6 / 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.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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