channel-portfolio-planner

channel-portfolio-planner is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 102 tokens per session (2,427 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning tool for choosing which social media channels a brand should use based on its audience, goals, access, and available time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose channels, assess platforms such as X or Xiaohongshu, or rebalance an existing set of social accounts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid spreading a small team across more platforms than it can maintain. It also separates channels worth running from accounts that should be reduced or retired.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Emit the standard shape from [skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format](../../../references/skill-contract.md)..

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit Use it to choose channels, assess platforms such as X or Xiaohongshu, or rebalance an existing set of social accounts.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/channel-portfolio-planner

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,427 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 2 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 68
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00102 $0.02427
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00243

Measured 9d ago against content hash c39ee4d4943f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

channel-portfolio-planner 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 9d 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.

social/explore/channel-portfolio-planner/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Channel Portfolio Planner

Picks organic channels with audience and objective first. It feeds ECHO platform-capability evidence and submits each selected channel as a proposed-state event so no handle is treated as active without accepted registry state. It declares one operating profile for future program-maturity reads; the asset gate remains profile-independent.

Scope guard: this skill decides which channels to run. It submits proposed state but does not own canonical facts/transitions, voice records, norm cards, warmup, or ECHO gates. Adjacent paid, creator, launch, and email asks route to their owners.

Quick Start

Pick our organic social channels: dev-tool CLI product, audience = backend engineers, staffing = 1 founder + 1 DevRel at 6 hrs/week total.
Should we add 小红书 and 视频号? Objective: B2C skincare awareness in China. Audience research: [paste]. Current team: one part-time social manager.
Rebalance the portfolio — we hold 6 handles but only ship on 2. Staffing hours: [list]. Recommend keep / reduce / retire per channel.

Skill Contract

Expected output: a capability/access matrix, cadence-budget reality check, declared ECHO program-maturity profile, primary/secondary/watch tiers, boundary triage, authorized proposed-state events, and the standard handoff.

  • Reads: objective and staffing capacity (User-provided); audience evidence from audience-mapper output in memory/influencer/audience-mapper/ or pasted persona/analytics exports (User-provided); existing dossiers in memory/channels/ read-only, so re-planning starts from recorded states; platform capability and policy facts from official platform docs; public attention signals via scripts/connectors/pageviews.py and scripts/connectors/hn.py (keyless).
  • Writes: the portfolio to its WARM path after permission; selected channel facts become authorized operation: propose events. It does not write HOT automatically.
  • Done when: every candidate platform has all four capability columns and an access class filled; the selected portfolio fits inside the stated staffing budget with every hour figure labeled; and each selected channel proposal is submitted through the runtime.
  • Primary next skill: voice-dossier-builder — codify voice and content pillars for the channels just chosen.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 9d ago First seen · 87 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A c39ee4d4943f

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channel-portfolio-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,427 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.