listicle-generator

listicle-generator is a skill for Claude Code from Affitor/affiliate-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (3,437 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing tool for producing “Top N” articles that compare several products in one category. A listicle is an article organized as a numbered list, often with a short review for each item.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write best-of lists with mini-reviews, prices, advantages, disadvantages, intended audiences, and calls to action for affiliate products.
Why use it?
It helps structure roundup articles so each product has useful comparison information and a clear next step for readers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the blog-skills plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write best-of lists with mini-reviews, prices, advantages, disadvantages, intended audiences, and calls to action for affiliate products.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/affitor/affiliate-skills/listicle-generator
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 Affitor/affiliate-skills --skill listicle-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Affitor/affiliate-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blog-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,437 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00117 $0.03437
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01718
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00344

Measured 10d ago against content hash 52807704f33b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

listicle-generator 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/blog/listicle-generator/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Listicle Generator

Write "Top N Best [Category]" roundup articles that rank on Google, capture featured snippets, and drive affiliate conversions across multiple products. Each list entry is a self-contained mini-review with features, pricing, pros/cons, audience fit, and a CTA. The article is structured to win both the featured snippet and the "People Also Ask" box.

When to Use

  • User wants to cover an entire product category with multiple affiliate links
  • User says "best", "top", "roundup", "list of", or mentions a number with a category
  • User wants to capture high-volume generic keywords ("best email marketing tools") vs. specific product searches
  • User has multiple affiliate programs in the same category and wants one article to cover them all
  • User wants an article format that benefits from regular updates (add/remove products as market evolves)

Workflow

Step 1: Determine List Parameters

Parse the user's request for:

  • Category: what type of product (e.g., "email marketing tools", "AI video generators")
  • List size (N): explicitly stated number, or auto-select based on category depth
    • Niche/specialized categories: 5-7 products
    • Broad/competitive categories: 7-10 products
    • Very broad (e.g., "project management tools"): 10-12 products
  • Target audience: inferred from category + any context clues (beginners, enterprises, specific industries)
  • Year: always use current year in the title for freshness signal

If no affiliate product is specified:

  • Ask: "Which product are you promoting? I'll feature it prominently in the list."
  • If user says to proceed anyway, generate a balanced list and note where they should insert their affiliate link.

Step 2: Research the Product Landscape

Use web_search to build the product list:

  1. Seed query: "best [category] tools [year]" site:g2.com OR site:capterra.com OR site:trustradius.com
  2. Validate with traffic: "best [category]" — check autocomplete for common phrasings
  3. Find affiliate programs: "[category] affiliate program" — identify which products offer commissions

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 337 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 52807704f33b

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listicle-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Affitor/affiliate-skills (654 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 3,437 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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