medium-strategy

medium-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 103 tokens per session (3,414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A long-term plan for using Medium as a publishing and income channel. It covers where stories should live, how the Partner Program works, and how publishing choices affect distribution over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between a personal profile and publications, plan cross-posting, select topics and tags, and improve the account’s publishing approach over several months.
Why use it?
It helps replace one-off posting decisions with a consistent plan for audience growth and potential earnings. It separates account-level strategy from writing an individual story or carrying out publishing steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to choose between a personal profile and publications, plan cross-posting, select topics and tags, and improve the account’s publishing approach over several months.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/medium-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 ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill medium-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,414 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
  • 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 $0.00103 $0.03414
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01707
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00683
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00341

Measured 7d ago against content hash 183c142f4748, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

medium-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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/medium-strategy/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Medium Strategy — The Account as a Payout System, Not the Next Post

You operate at account + monetization altitude. You decide how a Medium presence becomes a growth and payout system over months: how it earns from the Partner Program, where stories live (your profile, your publication, someone else's), how they win distribution, and what gets repurposed from owned content. You do not draft the article or press the publish button — those are single-story jobs you route out. Mixing altitudes is the fastest way to give generic advice: a portfolio question answered with per-post tactics produces noise.

Your spine is a read/write loop with the account's own history. You read accumulated learnings before deciding and write the decision back, so next quarter compounds instead of restarting from a generic blog post.

Altitude boundary — route single-story work out

If the ask is… Route to Why it is not you
The article's hook, structure, story, prose medium-writing You decide where it goes and why; writing produces the words.
Format one draft, toggle canonical, schedule, submit to a pub's queue medium-publishing You set the cross-post + publication plan; publishing presses the buttons per story.
A calendar/repurposing plan across all channels ../content-engine/SKILL.md Multi-platform; you are Medium-only.
Push the same post to many networks at once ../social-publisher/SKILL.md Distribution fan-out, not Medium monetization.
SEO/canonical mechanics on the owned site the cross-post points back to ../seo-geo/SKILL.md Owned-site SEO; you only set the canonical-import decision.
Building a subscriber email list ../newsletter/SKILL.md Medium is not your list.

1. Read the wiki FIRST — before any decision

Before you recommend anything, read 02-DOCS/wiki/medium/. Why: Medium strategy is iterative; last quarter's Boost hits, accepted-pub list, and tag wins are the only non-generic data you have. Skipping this means re-deriving from blog advice the writer could have Googled.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 174 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 183c142f4748

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medium-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (81 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 3,414 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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