channel-economics-analyzer

channel-economics-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code from maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit. It costs 120 tokens per session (4,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A profit-and-loss calculator for e-commerce businesses that sell through their own shop and marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, or Etsy. It compares each sales channel using revenue, costs, fees, advertising spend, and orders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for channel-level profit reviews, marketplace keep-or-close decisions, and moving advertising budget between channels. It needs data from roughly the last 90 days, including sales, refunds, product costs, fees, and advertising spend.
Why use it?
It shows which channels make money and which lose money after all relevant costs. It also identifies the monthly order volume needed for a channel to break even.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the seo-rescue plugin — 18 skills, 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it for channel-level profit reviews, marketplace keep-or-close decisions, and moving advertising budget between channels. It needs data from roughly the last 90 days, including sales, refunds, product costs, fees, and advertising spend.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit/channel-economics-analyzer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit --skill channel-economics-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install seo-rescue, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 6 commands.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,471 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 $0.00120 $0.04471
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.02235
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00894
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00447

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3dbc1ea2d916, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

channel-economics-analyzer 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (channel-economics.example.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/seo-rescue/skills/channel-economics-analyzer/SKILL.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Channel Economics Analyzer

Overview

A simple-but-rigorous channel-level P&L calculator for multi-channel e-commerce businesses. Computes per-channel: revenue, COGS, ad-spend, marketplace fees, operating margin, break-even order count. Output: scorecard that names which channels are loss-making and the minimum monthly order volume needed for profitability.

Core principle: Revenue is vanity, margin is sanity, cash is reality. A €5k/month channel that loses €500/month is worse than no channel at all.

When to use

  • Multi-channel sellers (Direct-Shop + 1+ marketplace)
  • Quarterly P&L review by channel
  • "Should we keep this marketplace?" decisions
  • Ad budget reallocation across channels
  • Founder asks "is OTTO/Amazon actually profitable for us?"

Don't use for:

  • Pure direct-to-consumer (no marketplace) — trivial
  • Pure dropshipping with no COGS data
  • New launch <90 days (insufficient data)

Required data per channel (last 90 days)

Data point Source
Gross revenue Shop/marketplace order export
Refunds + chargebacks Same export
COGS (manufacturing cost per unit × units) ERP / spreadsheet
Marketplace fee % Channel docs (Amazon: 15%, OTTO: 9-15%, eBay: 11%)
Ad spend on channel Google Ads / Amazon Ads / OTTO Ads / Facebook Ads dashboards
Shipping cost per order Shipping provider invoices
Returns processing cost Internal time-cost estimate
Order count Order export

The formula

NET_REVENUE = GROSS_REVENUE - REFUNDS
MARKETPLACE_FEE = NET_REVENUE × FEE_RATE
GROSS_PROFIT = NET_REVENUE - COGS - MARKETPLACE_FEE - SHIPPING_TOTAL
OPERATING_PROFIT = GROSS_PROFIT - AD_SPEND - RETURNS_HANDLING

CONTRIBUTION_PER_ORDER = (NET_REVENUE - COGS - MARKETPLACE_FEE - SHIPPING) / ORDERS
BREAK_EVEN_ORDERS = AD_SPEND_TOTAL / CONTRIBUTION_PER_ORDER

CHANNEL_HEALTH = OPERATING_PROFIT / NET_REVENUE × 100

Healthy channel: margin > 15 %. Risky: 5-15 %. Loss-making: < 5 % or negative.

Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 353 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 3dbc1ea2d916

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channel-economics-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxschottke-spec/seo-survival-kit (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 4,471 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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