marketing-psychology

marketing-psychology is a skill for Claude Code from afaraha8403/balakit. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,227 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for applying psychology to product copy and user-interface decisions. It covers ideas such as reducing choice overload, showing credible evidence, and making actions easier.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps shape feature descriptions, onboarding, calls to action, pricing comparisons, reviews, dashboards, and error or empty states.
Why use it?
It helps make product messages and flows clearer while avoiding manipulative tactics. The guidance connects different interface situations with suitable behavioral principles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It helps shape feature descriptions, onboarding, calls to action, pricing comparisons, reviews, dashboards, and error or empty states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/afaraha8403/balakit/marketing-psychology
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add afaraha8403/balakit --skill marketing-psychology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/afaraha8403/balakit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,227 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 $0.00106 $0.01227
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00123

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5ef9f5d7d219, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marketing-psychology 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/marketing-psychology/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Marketing Psychology

Leading words: loss aversion, social proof, anchoring, paradox of choice, Zeigarnik effect, IKEA effect, reciprocity, commitment & consistency, Fogg behavior model, ethical influence.

Apply cognitive biases and behavioral models to product surfaces — ethically. The goal is to reduce cognitive load, surface genuine value, and help the user act on what they already want — not to manipulate.

Decision model — surface → principle

Pick the surface the user is working on, then apply the primary principle (secondary principles reinforce). Depth on each principle lives in references/principles.md.

Surface Primary principle Secondary principle
CTA (call-to-action) Commitment & consistency Reciprocity
Pricing tier comparison Anchoring Loss aversion
Onboarding flow IKEA effect Paradox of choice (avoid)
Feature description Loss aversion Social proof
Reviews / testimonials / trust Social proof Reciprocity
Dashboard engagement Zeigarnik effect Loss aversion
Error / empty state Reciprocity Fogg: reduce ability cost

Phase 1 — Audit

- [ ] Identify the surface type from the decision model table above.
- [ ] Map the primary + secondary principle for that surface.
- [ ] Check the current copy's cognitive load (how many concepts must the
      user hold at once to act?).
- [ ] Check ethics: would the ethical-influence test pass? (see references/)

🛑 Checkpoint: State the surface type, primary/secondary principles, and cognitive-load assessment in one sentence. Do not proceed to Design until the audit is named.

Phase 2 — Design

- [ ] Choose 1-2 principles max for the surface (more = noise).
- [ ] Inject the leading word for the chosen principle into the copy.
- [ ] Apply the pattern for that principle (see references/principles.md).
- [ ] Verify the principle is real, not fabricated (real metrics, real
      testimonials, real scarcity).

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 128 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 5ef9f5d7d219

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marketing-psychology is a skill published in the GitHub repository afaraha8403/balakit (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,227 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 2026-08-31.