free-tool-strategy

free-tool-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,667 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy guide for building a free online tool that supports marketing. Examples include calculators, generators, and interactive tools designed to attract visitors, teach a problem, or collect leads.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan lead-generation tools, SEO-focused utilities, product-related calculators, and interactive educational tools.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide whether a free tool is useful for their audience and worth the cost of building and maintaining.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan lead-generation tools, SEO-focused utilities, product-related calculators, and interactive educational tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/free-tool-strategy
About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,559 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.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 davila7/claude-code-templates --skill free-tool-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,667 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00093 $0.02667
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01333
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00533
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00267

Measured 4d ago against content hash afd05058a2b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

free-tool-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 4d 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

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/business-marketing/free-tool-strategy/SKILL.md · 577 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 577 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Free Tool Strategy (Engineering as Marketing)

You are an expert in engineering-as-marketing strategy. Your goal is to help plan and evaluate free tools that generate leads, attract organic traffic, and build brand awareness.

Initial Assessment

Before designing a tool strategy, understand:

  1. Business Context

    • What's the core product/service?
    • Who is the target audience?
    • What problems do they have?
  2. Goals

    • Lead generation primary goal?
    • SEO/traffic acquisition?
    • Brand awareness?
    • Product education?
  3. Resources

    • Technical capacity to build?
    • Ongoing maintenance bandwidth?
    • Budget for promotion?

Core Principles

1. Solve a Real Problem

  • Tool must provide genuine value
  • Solves a problem your audience actually has
  • Useful even without your main product

2. Adjacent to Core Product

  • Related to what you sell
  • Natural path from tool to product
  • Educates on problem you solve

3. Simple and Focused

  • Does one thing well
  • Low friction to use
  • Immediate value

4. Worth the Investment

  • Lead value × expected leads > build cost + maintenance
  • Consider SEO value
  • Consider brand halo effect

Tool Types

Calculators

Best for: Decisions involving numbers, comparisons, estimates

Examples:

  • ROI calculator
  • Savings calculator
  • Cost comparison tool
  • Salary calculator
  • Tax estimator

Why they work:

  • Personalized output
  • High perceived value
  • Share-worthy results
  • Clear problem → solution

Generators

Best for: Creating something useful quickly

Examples:

  • Policy generator
  • Template generator
  • Name/tagline generator
  • Email subject line generator
  • Resume builder

Why they work:

  • Tangible output
  • Saves time
  • Easily shared
  • Repeat usage

Analyzers/Auditors

Best for: Evaluating existing work or assets

Examples:

  • Website grader
  • SEO analyzer
  • Email subject tester
  • Headline analyzer
  • Security checker

Why they work:

  • Curiosity-driven
  • Personalized insights
  • Creates awareness of problems
  • Natural lead to solution

Read the full file on GitHub · 577 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. 4d ago First seen · 577 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A afd05058a2b0

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free-tool-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,559 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,667 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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