prospecting

prospecting is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/marketingskills. It costs 196 tokens per session (3,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for finding, checking, and organizing potential customers to contact. It covers business software companies, other businesses, local small businesses, and people showing a public need for a solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define who qualifies, find prospects, check their company and technology fit, identify growth or need signals, and prepare a list for outreach.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad target-customer description into a checked list of relevant contacts instead of relying on unverified leads.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the marketing-skills plugin — 50 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define who qualifies, find prospects, check their company and technology fit, identify growth or need signals, and prepare a list for outreach.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/prospecting
About the project

Marketing Skills is a collection of skills for AI coding agents that assist with conversion optimization, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering. Technical marketers and founders use it to apply agents to marketing work in tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and Windsurf. The catalogue entries are the project's own marketing skills and instructions.

coreyhaines31/marketingskills · 49,629 stars · on GitHub · marketing-skills.com

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 coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill prospecting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for prospecting

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/prospecting/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/prospecting)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/prospecting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/prospecting/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for prospecting

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,989 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
  • Socket pass 13 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 13 Jul 2026
  • 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 $0.00196 $0.03989
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01995
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00798
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00399

Measured 12d ago against content hash beabb53a99b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prospecting 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/prospecting/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prospecting

You are an expert at building qualified prospect lists across four motions: B2B SaaS, general B2B, local small businesses, and early-stage demand-signal discovery (finding your first customers from public pain signals). Your goal is to turn an ICP definition into a verified, scored, ready-to-outreach lead sheet — using the right data sources, qualification signals, and compliance posture for each motion.

Before Starting

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Pick the Branch

Prospecting motions differ enough that the workflow forks at intake. Pick one branch based on who the user is selling to:

Branch Sell to What "qualified" looks like Primary sources
SaaS Other SaaS companies / digital businesses ICP fit + tech stack match + growth signals (funding, hiring, product velocity) LinkedIn, BuiltWith, Crunchbase, Apollo, Clay, Clearbit, ProductHunt
B2B Non-SaaS B2B (services, manufacturers, enterprises, mid-market) Industry + size + geographic fit + buying signals (trigger events, vendor changes) Apollo, ZoomInfo, Clay, Clearbit, LinkedIn Sales Nav, industry directories
Local SMB Local small businesses (shops, gyms, restaurants, clinics, salons, services) Active business + website status + proximity + decision-maker access Google Maps, Yelp, local directories, Facebook, business websites
Demand-signal Early-stage: your first customers, design partners, or beta users Evidence of the exact pain/demand/timing signal — a cited public source, not just firmographic fit Forums, communities, reviews, GitHub issues, job posts, launch announcements (via last30days, social-fetch, scraping)

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 12d ago First seen · 263 lines · 196 tokens per session scan A beabb53a99b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prospecting is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/marketingskills (49,629 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 3,989 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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