channel-economics

channel-economics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cass-2003/local-workflow-skill. It costs 170 tokens per session (2,916 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A channel-profitability analysis guide for comparing direct sales with partner-led sales. It calculates the full cost and return of each route, then tests possible channel mixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for quarterly channel reviews, partner-program investment decisions, channel-manager hiring cases, and recommendations about where to increase, maintain, reduce, or stop spending.
Why use it?
It helps replace unclear channel performance with comparable numbers, including staff, discounts, support, and other costs. It also shows how results change when customer-acquisition costs or investment levels change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for quarterly channel reviews, partner-program investment decisions, channel-manager hiring cases, and recommendations about where to increase, maintain, reduce, or stop spending.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/channel-economics
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 cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill channel-economics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,916 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 $0.00170 $0.02916
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.01458
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00583
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00292

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2451fed7e216, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

channel-economics 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/channel_mix_optimizer.py, scripts/channel_roi_analyzer.py, scripts/cost_to_serve_calculator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/commercial-strategy/community/channel-economics/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

channel-economics

Purpose

Help Head of Commercial / RevOps / VP Sales answer three questions at the quarterly channel review:

  1. What does each channel actually cost to serve, fully loaded? (direct headcount, channel manager attribution, partner discount, MDF, enablement time, support load, allocated overhead)
  2. What is the ROI of each channel under three lenses? (cash ROI year-1, LTV-adjusted ROI, marginal ROI — next dollar of investment)
  3. What is the optimal channel mix subject to our strategic constraints? (minimum direct floor, maximum partner concentration ceiling, sensitivity to CAC shifts)

The skill emits per-channel verdicts (DOUBLE-DOWN / MAINTAIN / DEFUND / EXIT), a sensitivity-tested mix recommendation, and the diminishing-returns inflection point. It does not pick the strategy — humans do, with the numbers loaded honestly for the first time.

When to use

  • Quarterly channel review: pipeline is 60/40 or 50/50 direct vs partner and you don't actually know which one is profitable
  • Considering hiring a channel manager — need to know if the channel can clear the loaded-cost bar
  • Partner program ROI question from the board ("we spent $X on MDF — what did we get?")
  • A segment is over-indexed to one channel and you suspect mix dogma is blocking the other
  • About to expand into a new region and need to decide direct-first vs partner-first
  • M&A diligence: target company claims "partner-led at 70% gross margin" — need to validate after loading

Do not use for:

  • Designing partner tiers, joint GTM motion, revshare splits → partnerships-architect
  • SDR-to-AE routing, lead scoring, MQL definitions → business-growth/revenue-operations
  • Strategic CRO decisions ("should we hire a VP Sales?", comp plan design) → c-level-advisor/cro-advisor
  • Quarterly close, GAAP revenue recognition, channel-level P&L for historical reporting → finance/financial-analysis
  • Per-deal discount approval → deal-desk
  • Pricing model design → pricing-strategist

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 154 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 2451fed7e216

Subscribe to this mod's changes

channel-economics is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 2,916 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.

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