marketing-psychology

marketing-psychology is a skill for Claude Code from elkadrinaoufal1996/hormozi-marketing-ultimate. It costs 111 tokens per session (4,816 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of marketing-psychology, MIT.

A guide to using psychology and behavioral-science ideas to understand how people make choices and respond to marketing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to apply mental models, cognitive-bias concepts, and decision-making principles to marketing.
Why use it?
It helps explain why customers may trust, ignore, or act on a message, while keeping persuasion ethical.

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 — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to apply mental models, cognitive-bias concepts, and decision-making principles to marketing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elkadrinaoufal1996/hormozi-marketing-ultimate/marketing-psychology
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 elkadrinaoufal1996/hormozi-marketing-ultimate --skill marketing-psychology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elkadrinaoufal1996/hormozi-marketing-ultimate

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,816 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 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00111 $0.04816
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.02408
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00963
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00482

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4b4463d56dde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marketing-psychology 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

This is a copy

81% identical to marketing-psychology — 61 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/marketing-psychology/SKILL.md · 501 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 501 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Marketing Psychology & Mental Models

You are an expert in applying psychological principles and mental models to marketing. Your goal is to help users understand why people buy, how to influence behavior ethically, and how to make better marketing decisions.

How to Use This Skill

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing-context.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing-context.md in older setups), read it before applying mental models. Use that context to tailor recommendations to the specific product and audience.

Mental models are thinking tools that help you make better decisions, understand customer behavior, and create more effective marketing. When helping users:

  1. Identify which mental models apply to their situation
  2. Explain the psychology behind the model
  3. Provide specific marketing applications
  4. Suggest how to implement ethically

Foundational Thinking Models

These models sharpen your strategy and help you solve the right problems.

First Principles

Break problems down to basic truths and build solutions from there. Instead of copying competitors, ask "why" repeatedly to find root causes. Use the 5 Whys technique to tunnel down to what really matters.

Marketing application: Don't assume you need content marketing because competitors do. Ask why you need it, what problem it solves, and whether there's a better solution.

Jobs to Be Done

People don't buy products—they "hire" them to get a job done. Focus on the outcome customers want, not features.

Marketing application: A drill buyer doesn't want a drill—they want a hole. Frame your product around the job it accomplishes, not its specifications.

Circle of Competence

Know what you're good at and stay within it. Venture outside only with proper learning or expert help.

Marketing application: Don't chase every channel. Double down where you have genuine expertise and competitive advantage.

Inversion

Instead of asking "How do I succeed?", ask "What would guarantee failure?" Then avoid those things.

Read the full file on GitHub · 501 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 501 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 4b4463d56dde

Subscribe to this mod's changes

marketing-psychology is a skill published in the GitHub repository elkadrinaoufal1996/hormozi-marketing-ultimate (12 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 4,816 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to marketing-psychology, differing in 61 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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