What's on the bench.
Social Content
When the user wants help creating, scheduling, or optimizing social media content for LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or other platforms. Also use when the user mentions 'LinkedIn post,' 'Twitter thread,' 'social media,' 'content calendar,' 'social scheduling,' 'engagement,' or 'viral content.' This skill covers content creation, repurposing, and platform-specific strategies.
Site Architecture
When the user wants to audit, redesign, or plan their website's structure, URL hierarchy, navigation design, or internal linking strategy. Use when the user mentions 'site architecture,' 'URL structure,' 'internal links,' 'site navigation,' 'breadcrumbs,' 'topic clusters,' 'hub pages,' 'orphan pages,' 'silo structure,' 'information architecture,' or 'website reorganization.' Also use when someone has SEO problems and the root cause is structural (not content or schema). NOT for content strategy decisions about what to write (use content-strategy) or for schema markup (use schema-markup).
Signup Flow Cro
When the user wants to optimize signup, registration, account creation, or trial activation flows. Also use when the user mentions "signup conversions," "registration friction," "signup form optimization," "free trial signup," "reduce signup dropoff," or "account creation flow." For post-signup onboarding, see onboarding-cro. For lead capture forms (not account creation), see form-cro.
Schema Markup
When the user wants to implement, audit, or validate structured data (schema markup) on their website. Use when the user mentions 'structured data,' 'schema.org,' 'JSON-LD,' 'rich results,' 'rich snippets,' 'schema markup,' 'FAQ schema,' 'Product schema,' 'HowTo schema,' or 'structured data errors in Search Console.' Also use when someone asks why their content isn't showing rich results or wants to improve AI search visibility. NOT for general SEO audits (use seo-audit) or technical SEO crawl issues (use site-architecture).
Referral Program
When the user wants to design, launch, or optimize a referral or affiliate program. Use when they mention 'referral program,' 'affiliate program,' 'word of mouth,' 'refer a friend,' 'incentive program,' 'customer referrals,' 'brand ambassador,' 'partner program,' 'referral link,' or 'growth through referrals.' Covers program mechanics, incentive design, and optimization — not just the idea of referrals but the actual system.
Prompt Engineer Toolkit
Turns marketing prompts into tested, versioned production assets: A/B prompt evaluation against structured test cases, immutable prompt version history with diffs, ready-to-use marketing prompt templates (ad copy, email campaigns, social posts, landing pages, SEO meta), and an LLM-governance playbook for marketing teams (claim discipline, disclosure rules, human-review gates). Use when a marketing team relies on AI-generated content and needs prompt quality to be measurable and safe — or when the user mentions 'prompt engineering,' 'improve my prompts,' 'prompt templates,' 'prompt versioning,' 'AI content workflow,' or 'AI governance for marketing.'
Programmatic SEO
When the user wants to create SEO-driven pages at scale using templates and data. Also use when the user mentions "programmatic SEO," "template pages," "pages at scale," "directory pages," "location pages," "[keyword] + [city] pages," "comparison pages," "integration pages," or "building many pages for SEO." For auditing existing SEO issues, see seo-audit.
Pricing Strategy
Design, optimize, and communicate SaaS pricing — tier structure, value metrics, pricing pages, and price increase strategy. Use when building a pricing model from scratch, redesigning existing pricing, planning a price increase, or improving a pricing page. Trigger keywords: pricing tiers, pricing page, price increase, packaging, value metric, per seat pricing, usage-based pricing, freemium, good-better-best, pricing strategy, monetization, pricing page conversion, Van Westendorp. NOT for broader product strategy — use product-strategist for that. NOT for customer success or renewals — use customer-success-manager for expansion revenue.
Popup Cro
When the user wants to create or optimize popups, modals, overlays, slide-ins, or banners for conversion purposes. Also use when the user mentions "exit intent," "popup conversions," "modal optimization," "lead capture popup," "email popup," "announcement banner," or "overlay." For forms outside of popups, see form-cro. For general page conversion optimization, see page-cro.
Paywall Upgrade Cro
When the user wants to create or optimize in-app paywalls, upgrade screens, upsell modals, or feature gates. Also use when the user mentions "paywall," "upgrade screen," "upgrade modal," "upsell," "feature gate," "convert free to paid," "freemium conversion," "trial expiration screen," "limit reached screen," "plan upgrade prompt," or "in-app pricing." Distinct from public pricing pages (see page-cro) — this skill focuses on in-product upgrade moments where the user has already experienced value.
Onboarding Cro
When the user wants to optimize post-signup onboarding, user activation, first-run experience, or time-to-value. Also use when the user mentions "onboarding flow," "activation rate," "user activation," "first-run experience," "empty states," "onboarding checklist," "aha moment," or "new user experience." For signup/registration optimization, see signup-flow-cro. For ongoing email sequences, see email-sequence.
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,' or 'consumer behavior.' This skill provides 70+ mental models organized for marketing application.
Marketing Context
Create and maintain the marketing context document that all marketing skills read before starting. Use when the user mentions 'marketing context,' 'brand voice,' 'set up context,' 'target audience,' 'ICP,' 'style guide,' 'who is my customer,' 'positioning,' or wants to avoid repeating foundational information across marketing tasks. Run this at the start of any new project before using other marketing skills.
Free Tool Strategy
When the user wants to build a free tool for marketing — lead generation, SEO value, or brand awareness. Use when they mention 'engineering as marketing,' 'free tool,' 'calculator,' 'generator,' 'checker,' 'grader,' 'marketing tool,' 'lead gen tool,' 'build something for traffic,' 'interactive tool,' or 'free resource.' Covers idea evaluation, tool design, and launch strategy. For pure SEO content strategy (no tool), use seo-audit or content-strategy instead.
Form Cro
When the user wants to optimize any form that is NOT signup/registration — including lead capture forms, contact forms, demo request forms, application forms, survey forms, or checkout forms. Also use when the user mentions "form optimization," "lead form conversions," "form friction," "form fields," "form completion rate," or "contact form." For signup/registration forms, see signup-flow-cro. For popups containing forms, see popup-cro.
Copy Editing
When the user wants to edit, review, or improve existing marketing copy. Also use when the user mentions 'edit this copy,' 'review my copy,' 'copy feedback,' 'proofread,' 'polish this,' 'make this better,' or 'copy sweep.' This skill provides a systematic approach to editing marketing copy through multiple focused passes.
Content Production
Full content production pipeline — takes a topic from blank page to published-ready piece. Use when you need to execute content: write a blog post, article, or guide end-to-end. Triggers: 'write a post about', 'draft an article', 'create content for', 'help me write', 'I need a blog post'. NOT for content strategy or calendar planning (use content-strategy). NOT for repurposing existing content (use content-repurposing). NOT for social captions only.
Content Humanizer
Makes AI-generated content sound genuinely human — not just cleaned up, but alive. Use when content feels robotic, uses too many AI clichés, lacks personality, or reads like it was written by committee. Triggers: 'this sounds like AI', 'make it more human', 'add personality', 'it feels generic', 'sounds robotic', 'fix AI writing', 'inject our voice'. NOT for initial content creation (use content-production). NOT for SEO optimization (use content-production Mode 3).
Competitor Alternatives
When the user wants to create competitor comparison or alternative pages for SEO and sales enablement. Also use when the user mentions 'alternative page,' 'vs page,' 'competitor comparison,' 'comparison page,' '[Product] vs [Product],' '[Product] alternative,' 'competitive landing pages,' 'switch from competitor,' or 'comparison content.' Covers four formats: singular alternative, plural alternatives, you vs competitor, and competitor vs competitor. Emphasizes deep research, modular content architecture, and varied section types beyond feature tables.
Cold Email
When the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them. Use when the user mentions 'cold email,' 'cold outreach,' 'prospecting emails,' 'SDR emails,' 'sales emails,' 'first touch email,' 'follow-up sequence,' or 'email prospecting.' Also use when they share an email draft that sounds too sales-y and needs to be humanized. Distinct from email-sequence (lifecycle/nurture to opted-in subscribers) — this is unsolicited outreach to new prospects. NOT for lifecycle emails, newsletters, or drip campaigns (use email-sequence).
Campaign Analytics
Analyzes campaign performance with multi-touch attribution, funnel conversion analysis, and ROI calculation for marketing optimization. Use when analyzing marketing campaigns, ad performance, attribution models, conversion rates, or calculating marketing ROI, ROAS, CPA, and campaign metrics across channels.
Brand Guidelines
When the user wants to apply, document, or enforce brand guidelines for any product or company. Also use when the user mentions 'brand guidelines,' 'brand colors,' 'typography,' 'logo usage,' 'brand voice,' 'visual identity,' 'tone of voice,' 'brand standards,' 'style guide,' 'brand consistency,' or 'company design standards.' Covers color systems, typography, logo rules, imagery guidelines, and tone matrix for any brand — including Anthropic's official identity.
Analytics Tracking
Set up, audit, and debug analytics tracking implementation — GA4, Google Tag Manager, event taxonomy, conversion tracking, and data quality. Use when building a tracking plan from scratch, auditing existing analytics for gaps or errors, debugging missing events, or setting up GTM. Trigger keywords: GA4 setup, Google Tag Manager, GTM, event tracking, analytics implementation, conversion tracking, tracking plan, event taxonomy, custom dimensions, UTM tracking, analytics audit, missing events, tracking broken. NOT for analyzing marketing campaign data — use campaign-analytics for that. NOT for BI dashboards — use product-analytics for in-product event analysis.
Ad Creative
When the user needs to generate, iterate, or scale ad creative for paid advertising. Use when they say 'write ad copy,' 'generate headlines,' 'create ad variations,' 'bulk creative,' 'iterate on ads,' 'ad copy validation,' 'RSA headlines,' 'Meta ad copy,' 'LinkedIn ad,' or 'creative testing.' This is pure creative production — distinct from paid-ads (campaign strategy). Use ad-creative when you need the copy, not the campaign plan.