early-access-designer

early-access-designer is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 163 tokens per session (3,115 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for designing an early-access program, from a waitlist through alpha, beta, and general availability. It defines what each stage means, who joins, and how users move between stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define stage goals, entry and exit criteria, cohort rules, opt-in choices, feedback loops, and referral mechanics.
Why use it?
It prevents users from being placed in unclear or misleading beta stages. It also makes graduation decisions and feedback collection explicit.

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 define stage goals, entry and exit criteria, cohort rules, opt-in choices, feedback loops, and referral mechanics.

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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/early-access-designer

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 163 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,115 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 warn 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 71
    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 $0.00163 $0.03115
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01558
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00312

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4314c91f6bdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

early-access-designer 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.

launch/research/early-access-designer/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Early Access Designer

Designs the early-access program for a product launch — the waitlist → concept → alpha → beta → GA stage ladder, per-stage graduation criteria, cohort gating and invite throttling, the tester feedback loop, and the referral mechanics that fill the next cohort. It sits in the Research phase of the RAMP loop and feeds the RAMP R early-access sub-item (early-access program design sound — stage gating + graduation criteria). Because the ladder defines what each stage publicly means, it is the upstream of the RAMP-R1 stage-truth veto: a beta dressed as GA fails at the gate, and the honest ladder designed here is what prevents that.

The ladder follows an early-access state-machine pattern (modeled on the PostHog Early Access flow — a pattern to follow, not a product guarantee): interest registration and stage opt-in are phases of the same action, not separate lists; an explicit opt-in or opt-out always overrides any targeting rule; and a GA rollout must explicitly confirm whether previously opted-out users are included before it ships.

Scope guard: this skill designs the stage ladder, graduation criteria, cohort gating, feedback-loop spec, and referral mechanics only. It does not own the waitlist acquisition strategy or the compliant capture-flow spec (that is list-growth-designer), build the signup page / popup UX (landing-optimizer), record the opt-in (consent-registry is the sole writer of memory/consent/), model the referral economics — K-factor, payout (newsletter-monetization-planner), hold the canonical stage record (launch-registry is the sole writer of memory/launch-registry/), or compute the RAMP profile result (launch-readiness-auditor). It works one lever — the stage ladder — and hands off.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A 4314c91f6bdd

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early-access-designer 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 163 tokens to every session and 3,115 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.