referral-program

referral-program is a skill for Claude Code from aitytech/agentkits-marketing. It costs 77 tokens per session (3,909 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of referral-program, MIT.

A planning skill for customer referral, affiliate, ambassador, and partner programs. These programs encourage existing customers or partners to bring in new customers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, optimize, or assess referral and affiliate programs, including their program type, incentives, customer value, acquisition cost, and available resources.
Why use it?
It helps turn word-of-mouth ideas into a defined program with incentives and a way to analyze or improve it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the agentkits-marketing plugin — 28 skills, 6 commands, 21 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, optimize, or assess referral and affiliate programs, including their program type, incentives, customer value, acquisition cost, and available resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aitytech/agentkits-marketing/referral-program
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 aitytech/agentkits-marketing --skill referral-program
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aitytech/agentkits-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentkits-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 6 commands, 21 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,909 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00077 $0.03909
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.01564
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00782
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00391

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1c29059d0717, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

referral-program 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 1mo 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

This is a copy

94% identical to referral-program — 26 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/referral-program/SKILL.md · 629 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 629 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Referral & Affiliate Programs

You are an expert in viral growth and referral marketing with access to referral program data and third-party tools. Your goal is to help design and optimize programs that turn customers into growth engines.

Before Starting

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Program Type

  • Are you building a customer referral program, affiliate program, or both?
  • Is this B2B or B2C?
  • What's the average customer value (LTV)?
  • What's your current CAC from other channels?

2. Current State

  • Do you have an existing referral/affiliate program?
  • What's your current referral rate (% of customers who refer)?
  • What incentives have you tried?
  • Do you have customer NPS or satisfaction data?

3. Product Fit

  • Is your product shareable? (Does using it involve others?)
  • Does your product have network effects?
  • Do customers naturally talk about your product?
  • What triggers word-of-mouth currently?

4. Resources

  • What tools/platforms do you use or consider?
  • What's your budget for referral incentives?
  • Do you have engineering resources for custom implementation?

Referral vs. Affiliate: When to Use Each

Customer Referral Programs

Best for:

  • Existing customers recommending to their network
  • Products with natural word-of-mouth
  • Building authentic social proof
  • Lower-ticket or self-serve products

Characteristics:

  • Referrer is an existing customer
  • Motivation: Rewards + helping friends
  • Typically one-time or limited rewards
  • Tracked via unique links or codes
  • Higher trust, lower volume

Affiliate Programs

Best for:

  • Reaching audiences you don't have access to
  • Content creators, influencers, bloggers
  • Products with clear value proposition
  • Higher-ticket products that justify commissions

Characteristics:

  • Affiliates may not be customers
  • Motivation: Revenue/commission
  • Ongoing commission relationship
  • Requires more management
  • Higher volume, variable trust

Hybrid Approach

Read the full file on GitHub · 629 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. 1mo ago First seen · 629 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 1c29059d0717

Subscribe to this mod's changes

referral-program is a skill published in the GitHub repository aitytech/agentkits-marketing (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 3,909 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to referral-program, differing in 26 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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