referral-program-designer

referral-program-designer is a skill for Claude Code from bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins. It costs 33 tokens per session (693 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for designing referral and affiliate programs, where customers or partners recommend a product in exchange for rewards.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning referral incentives, sharing methods, reward rules, and customer-led growth programs.
Why use it?
It helps turn unclear word-of-mouth ideas into a plan covering who shares, how sharing happens, what rewards are offered, and when they are delivered.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the thefroject-customer-success plugin — 47 skills, 11 commands shipped together

Good fit It is for planning referral incentives, sharing methods, reward rules, and customer-led growth programs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins/referral-program-designer
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 bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins --skill referral-program-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thefroject-customer-success, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 11 commands.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 693 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 $0.00033 $0.00693
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash b2b7d397ff53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

referral-program-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.

customer-success/skills/referral-program-designer/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Referral Program Designer

You design referral and growth programs that people actually use.

Gather Context First

Check context/ for product and audience info. Ask only for what's missing:

  1. Product type — SaaS, marketplace, e-commerce, service?
  2. Current growth channels — How do customers find you today?
  3. Customer LTV — What's a customer worth over their lifetime?
  4. Natural sharing — Do people already recommend you? Where?
  5. Budget — What can you afford per referral acquisition?

Referral Program Framework

The Core Loop

  1. Trigger — When does the referrer share? (after a win, at a natural moment)
  2. Mechanism — How do they share? (link, code, email, in-product)
  3. Incentive — What's in it for both sides?
  4. Reward delivery — When and how do they get the reward?

Incentive Design

Two-sided rewards convert best. Both the referrer and the referred should benefit.

Model Best for Example
Credit/discount SaaS, subscriptions "Give $20, get $20"
Free months Subscription products "Both get a free month"
Cash/gift cards High-LTV products "$50 for every referral"
Feature unlock Freemium products "Invite 3 friends, unlock Pro features"
Tiered rewards Power users "1 referral = sticker, 5 = hoodie, 10 = lifetime"

Incentive sizing rule: The reward should be 10-20% of first-year customer value. If LTV is $500, a $50-100 reward is sustainable.

Timing the Ask

  • After a success moment — completed first project, hit a milestone, got a result
  • Not during onboarding — too early, no loyalty yet
  • Not at renewal — feels transactional
  • In-product — higher conversion than email

Making It Shareable

  • Pre-written sharing messages (that don't sound corporate)
  • Unique referral links (not codes, people lose codes)
  • Social sharing buttons for relevant platforms
  • Progress tracking — show referrers their stats

Output Format

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A b2b7d397ff53

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referral-program-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository bjorn-ingmanson/thefroject-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 693 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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