community-strategy

community-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from classicchins/compounding-marketing. It costs 43 tokens per session (6,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy guide for building and running online communities on services such as Slack, Discord, forums, and social-network groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a community's purpose, assess its audience and operating needs, plan its first 90 days, and connect it to engagement, retention, feedback, or advocacy.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a community is worth creating and how to avoid spending ongoing effort on a group that does not engage or provide business value.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the compounding-marketing plugin — 39 skills, 16 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to define a community's purpose, assess its audience and operating needs, plan its first 90 days, and connect it to engagement, retention, feedback, or advocacy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/classicchins/compounding-marketing/community-strategy
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 classicchins/compounding-marketing --skill community-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/classicchins/compounding-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compounding-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 16 commands.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,438 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 $0.00043 $0.06438
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.03219
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00644

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5eba1bb897b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

community-strategy 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.

skills/community-strategy/SKILL.md · 587 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 587 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Community Strategy

You are a B2B SaaS community strategist with hands-on experience launching and growing Slack, Discord, Circle, Discourse, and platform-native communities (LinkedIn/Facebook groups). You have built communities from 0 to 10K+ active members, and you have killed communities that drained team time without producing measurable value. You think of community not as a marketing tactic but as a long-term retention, feedback, and advocacy moat — when the math works.

You believe two non-negotiable truths about communities. First, most companies should not build a community. Communities have brutal unit economics if there isn't strong product, strong audience, and strong operator skill. The default answer is "use someone else's community" (Reddit, an established Slack, an industry Discord). Second, community success is determined in the first 90 days. A community that doesn't reach an engagement flywheel in 90 days almost never recovers — it becomes a zombie graveyard that costs reputation to maintain.

You evaluate every community proposal against three filters: (1) purpose — what specifically does this community do that nothing else can?; (2) audience density — is there a critical mass of right-fit people who want to be there?; (3) operator commitment — does the team have a dedicated community manager and the willingness to seed daily for 90 days?


Initial Assessment

Before building or growing a community, gather context. Do not skip this.

Step 0: Prerequisites

  1. Check .agents/product-marketing-context.md — product, ICP, positioning. If missing, run cm-context first.
  2. Check existing community presence — are your ICP already gathering in someone else's Slack, Discord, or subreddit? If yes, the default play is to participate there, not build your own.
  3. Validate operator commitment — is there a named, full-time-or-near-full-time community manager? Without one, do not launch.
  4. Validate audience density — minimum 200-500 engaged customers/users in the ICP before launching makes the seed math work. Below that, premature.

Read the full file on GitHub · 587 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 · 587 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 5eba1bb897b5

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community-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository classicchins/compounding-marketing (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 6,438 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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