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marketing-psychology

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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Quality

Content

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

A well-organized but bloated reference catalog: the trigger-rich description sets up a skill whose body spends most of its tokens defining standard mental models Claude already knows, while the genuinely useful parts (marketing applications, Quick Reference, diagnostic questions) are diluted by the padding. The workflow and file structure leave selection and disclosure to the reader.

Suggestions

Strip the definitional sentence from each model entry (Claude already knows what loss aversion or anchoring is) and keep only the marketing application and any non-obvious usage caveats, cutting the body by roughly half.

Split the catalog into per-category reference files (e.g. references/persuasion.md, references/pricing.md) and keep SKILL.md as a lean overview with the Quick Reference table and diagnostic questions.

Add guidance for choosing between the overlapping behavior frameworks (AIDA, BJ Fogg, EAST, COM-B) and a short worked example showing the full process from diagnostic questions to recommended models to ethical implementation.

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Conciseness

The ~430-line body extensively re-explains concepts Claude already knows (e.g. 'Losses feel roughly twice as painful as equivalent gains feel good,' 'The first number people see heavily influences subsequent judgments'), with roughly half of each model entry being a redundant definition rather than marketing-specific added value.

2 / 5

Actionability

Concrete guidance exists (the 4-step usage list, per-model 'Marketing application' tactics, the challenge-to-model Quick Reference table, and diagnostic questions), but there is no worked end-to-end example and competing frameworks (BJ Fogg, EAST, COM-B, AIDA) are presented with no guidance on when to choose which.

3 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A sequence is present ('1. Identify which mental models apply... 2. Explain the psychology... 3. Provide specific marketing applications... 4. Suggest how to implement ethically') and the Quick Reference and Task-Specific Questions act as implicit checkpoints, but how to actually select among 60+ models or the five behavior frameworks is left to inference with no validation step.

3 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Internal structure is good (clear category sections, a Quick Reference table, Related Skills), but the entire 60-model catalog is inlined in one monolithic SKILL.md with no bundle files, where per-category reference files would keep the overview lean and reduce context load.

3 / 5

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20

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Description

86%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

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

A strong description with explicit what/when framing, excellent trigger-term coverage, third-person voice, and thoughtful boundary guidance to sibling skills. Its main weakness is that capability statements stay at the purpose level ('apply,' 'understand,' 'leverage') rather than enumerating concrete actions.

Suggestions

Replace abstract purpose verbs ('apply,' 'understand or leverage') with the concrete operations the skill performs, e.g. 'Identifies which mental models apply to a marketing situation, explains the psychology, and provides specific marketing applications and ethical implementation guidance.'

Tighten the overlapping trigger terms shared with the pricing/cro/copywriting skills by more sharply stating which contexts route to this skill versus the ones it already defers to.

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Specificity

The description names its domain clearly ("apply psychological principles, mental models, or behavioral science to marketing") and states its purpose ("understand or leverage how people think and make decisions"), but these are abstract purpose statements rather than the several specific concrete actions of the top anchors.

3 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ("apply psychological principles, mental models, or behavioral science to marketing") and when ("When the user wants to...", "Also use when the user mentions...", "Use this whenever someone wants to...") with concrete trigger phrases, plus boundary guidance pointing to related skills.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger coverage with many synonyms and specific model names users would actually say: 'psychology,' 'mental models,' 'cognitive bias,' 'persuasion,' 'behavioral science,' 'why people buy,' 'decision-making,' 'consumer behavior,' 'anchoring,' 'social proof,' 'scarcity,' 'loss aversion,' 'framing,' 'nudge.'

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The niche is clearly bounded ("in a marketing context") and explicit redirects reduce conflict ("For applying psychology to specific pages, see cro; for pricing tactics, see pricing; for copy framing, see copywriting"), but broadly shared trigger terms like 'anchoring,' 'scarcity,' and 'loss aversion' create minor overlap risk with those closely related skills.

4 / 5

Total

17

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20

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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joshmanders/dotfiles

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claude/skills/marketing-psychology/SKILL.md

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