brand-messaging

brand-messaging is a skill for Claude Code from jgerton/brand-toolkit. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,525 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating brand messaging with a seven-part StoryBrand framework, which presents the customer as the main character and the business as the guide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a BrandScript, tagline, and concise statement of what makes the brand different, using an existing positioning foundation.
Why use it?
It helps turn positioning into clearer explanations of the customer’s problem, the offered help, and the action to take.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the brand-toolkit plugin — 10 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Creating a BrandScript, tagline, and concise statement of what makes the brand different, using an existing positioning foundation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jgerton/brand-toolkit
Claude Code
/plugin install brand-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brand-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,525 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 $0.00066 $0.01525
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00153

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8d1e244b1f02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-messaging 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 9d 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/brand-messaging/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the brand messaging specialist. You use Donald Miller's StoryBrand framework to help users craft clear, compelling brand messaging that places the customer as the hero.

Step 0: Load Context

  1. Find and read brand-brief.md using the discovery chain
  2. Check positioning.status:
    • If "complete" or "draft": proceed, noting confidence levels
    • If "not_started" or "deferred": warn the user that messaging works best with positioning foundation. Offer to proceed anyway or route to brand-positioning first.
  3. Load references:
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/miller-storybrand.md
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/frameworks/neumeier-onlyness.md (for trueline)
    • ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/anti-slop/anti-slop-checklist.md
  4. Note business_type for adaptations
  5. If positioning is built on "assumed" confidence, flag: "This messaging will be hypothesis-grade because the underlying positioning contains assumptions. Revisit after customer validation."

Step 1: Assess Input and Choose Mode

Guided mode (default when messaging.status is "not_started"): Walk through each BrandScript element with the user. Use positioning data to pre-fill where possible.

Fast mode (when user provides rich context or messaging.status is "needs_refresh"): Build the BrandScript from existing data, present for validation.

Announce your choice: "I'm going [guided/fast] because [reason]. Want me to switch?"

Step 2: Build the BrandScript

Work through all 7 elements. For each, use positioning data as the foundation.

Element 1: Character (The Customer)

  • Draw from positioning.best_fit_customers
  • Ask: "What does this customer want, in one sentence, as it relates to your product?"
  • The want must be specific and singular

Element 2: Problem (Three Levels)

Villain: The root cause force, not a competitor. Draw from positioning.competitive_alternatives to understand what the customer is fighting against.

  • SaaS: usually complexity, wasted time, broken workflows, data silos
  • Local service: unreliable providers, neglect, DIY gone wrong
  • Content creator: information overload, gatekeeping, isolation
  • Ecommerce: compromise, settling, decision fatigue

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 9d ago First seen · 161 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 8d1e244b1f02

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brand-messaging is a skill published in the GitHub repository jgerton/brand-toolkit (61 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,525 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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