stelow-product-marketplace-playbook

stelow-product-marketplace-playbook is a skill for Claude Code from calionauta/stelow. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,200 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A playbook for growing a marketplace, a service that connects two or more groups such as buyers and sellers. It describes 19 tactics for building the harder side first, focusing on valuable niches, and creating enough activity for both sides to participate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide which side of a marketplace to build first, choose a focused starting niche, attract valuable participants, seed supply with collected data, and create urgency.
Why use it?
It helps address the early-stage problem where buyers need sellers and sellers need buyers, so neither side joins first. The tactics provide ways to create initial supply or demand and encourage participation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to decide which side of a marketplace to build first, choose a focused starting niche, attract valuable participants, seed supply with collected data, and create urgency.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calionauta/stelow/stelow-product-marketplace-playbook
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add calionauta/stelow --skill stelow-product-marketplace-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calionauta/stelow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,200 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 $0.00037 $0.01200
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00120

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0fc0a557dfbb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stelow-product-marketplace-playbook 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 3d 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.

skills/stelow-product-marketplace-playbook/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stimulating Marketplace: Supply and Demand

19 Tactics to Stimulate Marketplaces

Getting the Core Dynamics Right

  1. Get the harder side first. When the harder side (supply or demand) reaches its critical activity point, network effects kick in and value is created organically for the easier side. Discovering this through the sales and onboarding process, typically the harder side is the most valuable — once you have enough of them, the other side is 2-3 times easier to bring aboard.

  2. Strongly attract to a niche and repeat. Find the small groups in your community that care most about your market ("white-hot center") and go after them. Usually, this is discovered by going broad enough to collect data that shows the most activity.

  3. Subsidize the most valuable side of the market. Pay in cash to the most valuable side of the market — or to the most valuable niche within the most valuable side — to join the marketplace.

Building Initial Supply

  1. Make supply look bigger with automation. Start the supply side by aggregating as much web data as possible to create a "perceived aura of activity".

  2. Build one side as an email list. An easy and cheap way to start a market, especially if many buyers are also sellers and vice versa.

  3. Hold meetups and gatherings. In the beginning, they can be effective for generating community, demonstrating activity, and getting direct customer feedback.

  4. Create a SaaS tool for one side of the market. When you give or sell a SaaS tool to one side of the market, it helps keep them in the market, giving time to attract the other side.

  5. Provide software to third parties who can bring one side of the market.

  6. Find a giant user for initial supply or demand.

  7. Make only one side change their behavior.

Creating Momentum

  1. Make something free suddenly. Transforming something that used to cost money into something free will attract users.

  2. Create a product first and then open a market.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 3d ago Changed · +22 lines 0fc0a557dfbb
  2. 12d ago First seen · 107 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 3bb4b81cb66a

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stelow-product-marketplace-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository calionauta/stelow (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,200 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 2026-08-30.

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