brand-archetype-selection

brand-archetype-selection is a skill for Claude Code from mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for choosing a brand personality from 12 recurring character types drawn from Jungian psychology. It includes methods for selecting a main type, a supporting type, and their combination.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting brand archetypes, defining emotional positioning, or shaping a brand’s personality.
Why use it?
It gives brand teams a shared way to describe how a brand should feel and behave instead of choosing personality traits informally.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-vibes plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when selecting brand archetypes, defining emotional positioning, or shaping a brand’s personality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes/brand-archetype-selection
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 mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes --skill brand-archetype-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-vibes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,592 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 $0.00122 $0.02592
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01296
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00259

Measured 10d ago against content hash a27ba7b826b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-archetype-selection 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 10d 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.

plugins/vibes/skills/brand-archetype-selection/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Archetype Selection Framework

Quick reference for selecting brand archetypes using the Mark-Pearson methodology and Jungian psychology.

"Archetypes are the heartbeat of a brand because they convey a meaning that makes customers relate to a product as if it actually were alive in some way." — Margaret Mark & Carol Pearson


Psychological Foundations

Why Archetypes Work

Carl Jung proposed that beyond our personal unconscious lies a collective unconscious—a shared psychological inheritance containing archetypes: universal symbols, themes, and characters that appear across all human societies.

Key Insights:

  1. Subconscious Pattern Recognition: Our brains respond to archetypal stories as deeply familiar
  2. The 95% Rule: According to Harvard Professor Gerald Zaltman, 95% of purchasing decisions are made subconsciously
  3. Mirror Neuron Response: When encountering clear archetypal expression, our mirror neurons fire as if we were embodying that archetype ourselves
  4. Archetypes bypass the intellectual mind and produce feelings that lead to brand loyalty

The Business Case

A six-year Young & Rubicam study found that brands most clearly aligned with a single archetype were the most profitable.


The 70/30 Rule (Core Methodology)

Primary Archetype (70%): Your core personality that represents the majority of your brand. Any less and your personality will be confusing—you'll struggle to connect through familiarity.

Secondary "Influencer" Archetype (30%): Left to spend on differentiation. This is where you stand out from competitors who share your primary archetype.

Strategic Choice

  • Align with industry expectation (safety, meets customer expectations)
  • Go against the grain (differentiation opportunity, but riskier)

The Four Motivation Quadrants

The 12 archetypes are organized into four fundamental human motivations:

Quadrant Motivation Archetypes
Stability & Control Providing structure to the world Innocent, Everyman, Ruler, Caregiver
Independence & Fulfillment The yearning for paradise Hero, Outlaw, Explorer, Sage
Mastery & Risk Leaving a thumbprint on the world Magician, Creator
Belonging & Enjoyment No one is an island Lover, Jester

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 255 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A a27ba7b826b5

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brand-archetype-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes (39 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,592 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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