marketing-budget-defense

marketing-budget-defense is a skill for Claude Code from matellez/claude-skills. It costs 197 tokens per session (3,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation guide for explaining and defending a marketing budget to a CEO, CFO, board, or other executives. It translates marketing measures into financial terms such as pipeline, revenue, and return on spending.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather the right financial evidence, frame marketing investment, prepare for budget questions, and explain the plan behind the requested spend.
Why use it?
It addresses the problem of presenting activity numbers that do not show business value. It helps prepare clear answers when leaders are considering holding, increasing, or cutting the budget.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to gather the right financial evidence, frame marketing investment, prepare for budget questions, and explain the plan behind the requested spend.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matellez/claude-skills/marketing-budget-defense
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add matellez/claude-skills --skill marketing-budget-defense
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matellez/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,136 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 $0.00197 $0.03136
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01568
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00314

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1c67cae10ee9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marketing-budget-defense 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

leadership/marketing-budget-defense/SKILL.md · 392 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 392 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Marketing Budget Defense: Making the Financial Case for Marketing Investment

This skill prepares a demand gen or marketing leader for the budget conversation with a CEO, CFO, or board. The goal is not to produce a slide deck. The goal is to walk into that conversation with the right numbers, the right framing, and clear answers to the three or four questions that will determine whether the budget holds or gets cut.

Most marketing leaders lose budget conversations not because marketing is underperforming but because they cannot connect marketing activity to revenue in language that a CFO or CEO recognizes. They present impressions, MQL volume, and campaign metrics. Finance sees a cost center. The frame has to change before the budget conversation can go differently.


HOW TO SET UP THIS SKILL

This skill works best with specific data. Provide as much as possible:

  • Current annual or quarterly marketing budget
  • Pipeline generated by marketing this quarter or year
  • Closed revenue attributed to marketing-sourced deals
  • Average deal size and sales cycle length
  • LTV:CAC ratio if known
  • Payback period on marketing spend if known
  • What triggered this conversation (annual planning, budget cut request, performance review, or board presentation)
  • What the CEO or CFO has said or asked that you are preparing for

If no data is available, the skill will produce a framework for gathering the right numbers before the conversation.


The Frame Problem

The single biggest mistake marketing leaders make in budget conversations is leading with marketing metrics. Impressions, clicks, MQL volume, email open rates, and content downloads are marketing metrics. They describe activity. Finance does not fund activity. It funds outcomes.

The right frame is this: marketing spend is an investment with a measurable return. The question is not "how much does marketing cost?" The question is "what does this investment return, and is that return better than the alternatives?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 392 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. 12d ago First seen · 392 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A 1c67cae10ee9

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marketing-budget-defense is a skill published in the GitHub repository matellez/claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 3,136 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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