persuasion-principles

persuasion-principles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (4,309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A marketing guide based on Robert Cialdini’s six, later seven, principles of persuasion. It explains how to apply these ideas honestly in marketing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan landing pages, sales copy, email sequences, prices, offers, testimonials, referrals, loyalty programmes, and marketing reviews.
Why use it?
It helps find why a message, offer, or page may not persuade people, without relying only on guesswork.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan landing pages, sales copy, email sequences, prices, offers, testimonials, referrals, loyalty programmes, and marketing reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/persuasion-principles
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 guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill persuasion-principles
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 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,309 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 16 Feb 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 $0.00084 $0.04309
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02155
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00862
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00431

Measured 13d ago against content hash a9be3acb9973, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

persuasion-principles 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/persuasion-principles/SKILL.md · 568 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 568 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cialdini Persuasion Principles

Master Robert Cialdini's 6 (+1) Principles of Persuasion from "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" (1984). Ethically apply the psychology of compliance to marketing.

When to Use This Skill

  • Designing landing pages that convert
  • Writing sales copy and email sequences
  • Creating pricing and offer structures
  • Building testimonial and social proof strategies
  • Developing referral and loyalty programs
  • Reviewing marketing materials for persuasion gaps
  • Training teams on ethical influence

Methodology Foundation

Source: Robert Cialdini - "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" (1984), "Pre-Suasion" (2016)

Core Concept: Six (later seven) universal principles drive human compliance. These work via "near-automatic response"—people don't consciously evaluate; they react based on mental shortcuts.

Cialdini's Insight: "We all employ them and fall victim to them, to some degree, in our daily interactions. But compliance practitioners have much more than the vague and amateurish understanding of what works than the rest of us have."

Ethical Use: These principles can manipulate or persuade. The difference is intent and honesty. Use them to help people make good decisions, not to trick them into bad ones.

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures content frameworks Final messaging
Suggests persuasion techniques Brand voice
Creates draft variations Version selection
Identifies optimization opportunities Publication timing
Analyzes competitor approaches Strategic direction

What This Skill Does

  1. Applies the 6+1 principles - Systematic persuasion enhancement
  2. Audits marketing materials - Identifies missing influence triggers
  3. Designs persuasive campaigns - Combines multiple principles for maximum effect
  4. Builds ethical frameworks - Ensures influence serves the customer
  5. Defends against manipulation - Recognizes when principles are misused

Read the full file on GitHub · 568 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 · 568 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A a9be3acb9973

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persuasion-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 4,309 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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