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.
npx skills add Ckokoski/AuthorAgent --skill marketing-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgentWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/marketing-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/marketing-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/marketing-research/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/marketing-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/marketing-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00023 | $0.01209 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00605 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00242 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00121 |
Grade A, and why
marketing-research 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Marketing Research
Surfaces concrete book-marketing opportunities for an author's specific
genre / subgenre / book. Built on top of AuthorAgent's existing
research-lookup (Perplexity Sonar Pro via direct or OpenRouter), so
every result comes back with verified live-web citations the author can
cross-check before pitching.
What this skill researches
The skill takes a structured query and turns it into a real research request:
| Type | What gets surfaced |
|---|---|
| Literary agents | Active agents repping your specific genre/subgenre, recent sales, submission status (open/closed), MSWL highlights |
| Author podcasts | Recurring podcasts that interview authors in your genre, recent guests, contact path, episode cadence |
| Book bloggers / reviewers | Bloggers actively reviewing in your genre 2025–2026, their review style, submission process, recent featured books |
| Trade publications | Kirkus / Publishers Weekly / Booklist / Foreword — cost, lead time, indie-author eligibility |
| Indie review services | Reedsy Discovery, BookSirens, Book Award contests, NetGalley alternatives, paid review legitimacy |
| Newsletters | Genre-specific newsletters that feature books, ad rates, submission process, audience size |
| BookTok / Bookstagram | Active accounts in your subgenre, follower scale, posting cadence, outreach approach |
| Comp authors | Recent successful authors in your specific subgenre — their launch playbook, their marketing channels |
| Conference / festival | Genre-aligned events with author tracks, dates, application windows |
Important rules baked into every query
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No fabricated citations. The skill uses Perplexity Sonar Pro underneath, which only cites sources it can verify in live web search. If the author asks about a niche subgenre with no current coverage, the result will say "I cannot verify reliable sources on this" rather than hallucinating agent names or podcast hosts.
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No fake contact info. The skill explicitly does NOT generate email addresses, phone numbers, or DMs. Authors must look up contact info on the source's own published page (every reputable agent / podcast / blogger publishes their own submission process).
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 126 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A fe2715ebaad7
marketing-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ckokoski/AuthorAgent (106 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,209 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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