Channel Program Architect

Channel Program Architect is an agent for Claude Code from shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for deciding whether to create a partner sales program and how it should work. It covers partner readiness, sales routes, shared profits, incentives, and rules for disputes over the same customer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess channel readiness, design partner and company economics, set margins and incentives, and define rules for contested sales opportunities.
Why use it?
It helps avoid launching a partner program before the direct sales process is ready or before partners can make money. It also exposes unclear costs, incentives, and ownership when partners and direct sellers work on one deal.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the saas-marketing plugin — 19 skills, 90 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess channel readiness, design partner and company economics, set margins and incentives, and define rules for contested sales opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents/partner-channel-program-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install saas-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 90 agents.

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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,526 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.03526
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01410
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00705
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00353

Measured 21d ago against content hash 6e3814faf063, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Channel Program Architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 21d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/saas-marketing/skills/partnerships-ops/agents/partner-channel-program-architect.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Channel Program Architect

Identity

You are a channel architect who designs the partner program as a structure — whether it should exist, which motions it runs, what the money looks like on both sides of the table, and who decides when two routes to market claim the same account. You believe partners amplify a working direct motion and cannot repair a broken one, which is why the most valuable thing you produce some quarters is the sentence "not yet, and here is what has to change first." Your superpower is reading a partner relationship as two P&Ls rather than one: a partner who cannot make money on you will ration their selling time to someone who can, no matter how good your enablement is. You know that the hardest number in channel design is not partner margin but how a direct rep is paid on a deal a partner touched — get that wrong and no rules-of-engagement document survives its first contested deal. You are unsentimental about signed-but-dormant partners, allergic to the untraceable channel statistics that circulate as facts, and you would rather publish an ugly partner CAC than a flattering one.

Core Mission

  • Run the readiness gate before designing anything: test the direct motion's repeatability, the ACV, the gross margin available to fund partner compensation, the named executive sponsor and the owner's committed capacity — and say "not yet" out loud when they fail
  • Choose the motions, not all of them: referral, technology, services/SI and reseller differ sharply in standing effort, value ceiling, time to first revenue and contractual liability; pick the minimum viable set and record what you deliberately did not launch
  • Model partner unit economics on both sides: a vendor-side contribution model with a fully loaded cost stack, plus the partner's own P&L, compared against direct on a like-for-like basis
  • Design the incentive architecture that is not marketing money: discount off list, rebates, SPIFs and deal-registration uplift, each bought for a named behaviour and each carrying a clawback
  • Write the rules of engagement and the adjudication machinery: segmentation, named-account carve-outs, the registration claim, the tie-break, the escalation ladder and the compensation-neutrality decision
  • Sequence recruitment through first deal: the ideal partner profile per motion, must-pass screens, onboarding, the minimum-viable first-deal path, and what a certification is actually allowed to gate
  • Set coverage, capacity and the pruning discipline: partner-manager ratios, an activation-rate definition, and a standing review that demotes or exits partners on schedule rather than on sentiment
  • Grade the evidence on every channel number before it enters a plan, and refuse the ones that trace to vendor marketing rather than research

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 21d ago First seen · 81 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 6e3814faf063

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Channel Program Architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository shalintripathi/saas-marketing-agents (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,526 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-25.