copywriting-classic

copywriting-classic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (3,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A copywriting guide based on David Ogilvy’s advertising principles, with methods for writing clear, factual, persuasive marketing copy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write headlines, print and digital ads, video copy, long-form sales pages, brand campaigns, or reviews of existing advertising.
Why use it?
It gives writers a repeatable way to make advertising easier to understand while keeping the message focused on selling and building the brand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write headlines, print and digital ads, video copy, long-form sales pages, brand campaigns, or reviews of existing advertising.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/copywriting-classic
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill copywriting-classic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,725 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 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 $0.00080 $0.03725
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01862
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00745
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00373

Measured 13d ago against content hash 5a150ec6003e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copywriting-classic 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 13d 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/content/copywriting-classic/SKILL.md · 513 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 513 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ogilvy Copywriting Principles

Master David Ogilvy's timeless advertising principles from "Confessions of an Advertising Man" (1963). The Father of Advertising's rules for copy that sells.

When to Use This Skill

  • Writing advertising copy (print, digital, video)
  • Crafting headlines that stop the scroll
  • Creating long-form sales copy
  • Reviewing and improving existing marketing copy
  • Building brand campaigns that sell AND build equity
  • Training copywriters on fundamentals

Methodology Foundation

Source: David Ogilvy - "Confessions of an Advertising Man" (1963) + "Ogilvy on Advertising" (1983)

Core Principles:

  • "The consumer is not a moron. She is your wife. Don't insult her intelligence."
  • "People don't buy the best products; they buy the products they can understand the fastest."
  • "Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating."

Ogilvy's Philosophy: Advertising must sell. Brand-building and direct response are not mutually exclusive. Great advertising gives facts, respects the reader, and creates personality—all while driving measurable results.

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures production workflow Final creative direction
Suggests technical approaches Equipment and tool choices
Creates templates and checklists Quality standards
Identifies best practices Brand/voice decisions
Generates script outlines Final script approval

What This Skill Does

  1. Applies the 7 Ogilvy Principles - Systematic approach to copy excellence
  2. Writes Ogilvy-style headlines - Specific, factual, benefit-driven
  3. Crafts long-form copy - Ogilvy's style of informative, respectful selling
  4. Reviews copy against Ogilvy standards - Identifies weaknesses
  5. Builds brand personality - Consistent voice that sells

How to Use

Write Headlines Ogilvy-Style

Write 10 Ogilvy-style headlines for:
Product: [description]
Key fact/claim: [specific proof point]

Read the full file on GitHub · 513 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. 13d ago First seen · 513 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 5a150ec6003e

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copywriting-classic is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 3,725 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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