reasons-people-buy

reasons-people-buy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gnurio/nurijanian-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing persuasive copy around the real reason someone would buy, subscribe, or take action. It distinguishes the outcome a person wants from the product feature that helps produce it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing landing pages, advertisements, offers, product positioning, or other copy intended to persuade people to act.
Why use it?
It helps rewrite descriptions that merely list features and leave the reader to guess the benefit. It keeps the message focused on outcomes such as saving time, reducing effort, or gaining knowledge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing landing pages, advertisements, offers, product positioning, or other copy intended to persuade people to act.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gnurio/nurijanian-skills/reasons-people-buy
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 gnurio/nurijanian-skills --skill reasons-people-buy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gnurio/nurijanian-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 641 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 $0.00073 $0.00641
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00320
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00064

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5276bca209f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reasons-people-buy 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.

skills/reasons-people-buy/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reasons people buy

People buy to move toward a feeling or an outcome, never to own a feature. Copy that names what a product is or does leaves the reader to supply the reason themselves, and most won't. Name the reason first; let the feature prove it.

The move

For every line meant to persuade:

  1. Name the reason. Match the line to a reason on the list below. A line that maps to none is feature-speak — cut it or rewrite it. Done when every retained line traces to one named reason.
  2. Say the outcome, not the mechanism. What the buyer gets ("stop losing an hour a day to this"), not how it works ("automated workflow engine").
  3. Lead with the reason, prove with the feature. Reason in the headline or first line; the feature sits underneath as evidence.

The list

The working spine — 15 reasons people buy stuff:

  1. To avoid effort
  2. To feel happier
  3. To save time
  4. To be comfortable
  5. To escape pain or guilt
  6. To make money
  7. To save money
  8. To get recognition
  9. To be healthier
  10. To feel secure
  11. To alleviate fear
  12. To feel special
  13. To increase status
  14. To feel loved
  15. To get knowledge

Beneath every reason sits one of eight deeper drives (Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA) — the reason wearing work clothes:

money · status · power · love · knowledge · protection · pleasure · excitement

Write from the 15; check against the 8 that you've found the real driver rather than a surface benefit.

Checks

  • One primary reason per asset. A page that argues five reasons equally makes the reader feel none. Pick the primary; demote the rest to support.
  • Match the reason to the journey stage. Effort, time, pain, guilt, and fear pull people who don't yet know they have a problem; recognition, status, love, and feeling special close people already deciding.
  • Test the phrasing against how a real buyer talks — their vocabulary, not yours. Language accuracy is what makes a line land; guessed language reads as an ad and gets skipped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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 · 57 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 5276bca209f5

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reasons-people-buy is a skill published in the GitHub repository gnurio/nurijanian-skills (107 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 641 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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