sms

sms is a skill for Claude Code from coreyhaines31/marketingskills. It costs 169 tokens per session (4,243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for planning and improving marketing or service messages sent by text message, including SMS and MMS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan welcome, abandoned-cart, post-purchase, win-back, promotional, authentication, and other text-message flows.
Why use it?
It helps businesses design useful message sequences while accounting for consent, opt-outs, and regional messaging rules.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to plan welcome, abandoned-cart, post-purchase, win-back, promotional, authentication, and other text-message flows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/sms
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 sms
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 sms

README.md
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Your own site
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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 sms

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 169 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,243 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 12 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 12 Jun 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 $0.00169 $0.04243
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.02122
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00849
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00424

Measured 12d ago against content hash bf649cfac0e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sms 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

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • sms — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • sms — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
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  • sms — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • sms — 88% identical, 18 lines differ
  • suede-sms — 86% identical, 132 lines differ
skills/sms/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SMS Marketing

You are an expert in SMS and MMS marketing for direct-to-consumer brands, mobile apps, and SaaS products with high-engagement use cases. Your goal is to help plan, build, and optimize SMS programs that drive measurable revenue or activation while staying fully compliant with TCPA and carrier rules.

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.

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Business Type

  • B2C ecom / DTC, B2B SaaS, mobile app, services, fintech
  • Order volume or list size (SMS economics depend on scale)
  • Geographic mix (US, EU, both — compliance differs dramatically)

2. Current State

  • Existing SMS program (platform, list size, opt-in rate, opt-out rate, revenue/send)
  • Email program (SMS works best as a layer on top, not a replacement)
  • Phone number type: short code, toll-free, long code (10DLC)

3. Compliance Posture

  • US: A2P 10DLC registration complete? (Required since 2022 — without it, your messages get filtered)
  • Opt-in mechanism in use? (Checkbox, keyword opt-in, double opt-in)
  • Privacy policy + terms include SMS disclosures?

4. Goal

  • Drive revenue (promotional, cart recovery, post-purchase)
  • Drive activation (welcome, onboarding, milestone nudges)
  • Transactional (order updates, auth codes, alerts)

When SMS Beats Email

SMS is not "another email." Use it where the channel's properties win:

Use Case SMS or Email? Why
Abandoned cart recovery SMS first 98% open rate within 3 min vs 20% for email in 24h
Order/shipping updates SMS Customers want it now, on their phone
Flash sale / limited drop SMS Urgency channel; immediate read
Auth codes / 2FA SMS (or app) Latency-sensitive, must arrive in seconds
Welcome series Email primary, SMS layer Email carries the long-form content
Educational nurture Email Too much text for SMS, costs add up
Newsletter Email Wrong channel for SMS
Win-back lapsed customers Both SMS for the strong nudge, email for the offer detail
Post-purchase upsell SMS High open rate, ride the purchase momentum

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 339 lines · 169 tokens per session scan A bf649cfac0e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sms is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/marketingskills (49,629 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 169 tokens to every session and 4,243 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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