free-tool-strategy

free-tool-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli. It costs 157 tokens per session (3,083 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for building free calculators, checkers, generators, or other interactive tools that attract potential customers through search and sharing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a free marketing tool, choose the problem it should solve, and connect the tool to audience, keyword, positioning, and brand information.
Why use it?
It helps connect a useful free tool to audience needs, search terms, and a paid product instead of building an unrelated widget.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the marketing-cli plugin — 88 skills, 9 commands, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan a free marketing tool, choose the problem it should solve, and connect the tool to audience, keyword, positioning, and brand information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moizibnyousaf/marketing-cli/free-tool-strategy
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 MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli --skill free-tool-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 88 skills, 9 commands, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,083 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00157 $0.03083
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01541
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00617
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00308

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2ee596a1f1a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

free-tool-strategy 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.

skills/free-tool-strategy/SKILL.md · 327 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 327 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Free Tool Strategy (Engineering as Marketing)

Purpose

Free tools are permanent acquisition assets. Build a calculator, checker, generator, or grader that your target audience actively searches for. It ranks in Google, gets shared, and funnels users to your paid product. One tool can drive more signups than months of content.

Reads

  • brand/audience.md — Personas, daily workflow, pain points
  • brand/keyword-plan.md — Search volume data for tool-related queries
  • brand/positioning.md — Positioning angles to connect tool → product
  • brand/creative-kit.md — Brand colors, fonts for tool landing page

On Activation

  1. Read brand/audience.md, brand/keyword-plan.md, brand/positioning.md, brand/creative-kit.md.
  2. If any file is missing, note what's unavailable. The skill works at zero context — ask the user directly for missing info in Step 1.
  3. Pre-fill persona details, keyword data, and positioning angles from whatever brand/ files exist. Only ask for what's genuinely unknown.

Why these files matter: audience.md tells you whose pain to solve (without this, tools target the wrong users). keyword-plan.md gives search volume data so you don't build tools nobody searches for. positioning.md connects the free tool to the paid product (without this connection, traffic doesn't convert). creative-kit.md ensures the tool landing page matches the brand.

Workflow

Step 1: Identify Audience Workflow Pain Points

If brand/audience.md exists, extract the primary persona and their pain points — skip the interview below and go straight to Step 2 with that data. If not, map the target audience's daily workflow and find friction:

Persona: [Role/Title]
Daily workflow:
1. [Task] -> Pain: [what's annoying about this]
2. [Task] -> Pain: [what's tedious/manual]
3. [Task] -> Pain: [what requires expensive tools]
4. [Task] -> Pain: [what they currently use spreadsheets for]
5. [Task] -> Pain: [what they google repeatedly]

Best free tool candidates solve pains that are:

  • Recurring (done weekly or more)
  • Currently solved with manual effort or spreadsheets
  • Searchable ("X calculator", "X generator", "X checker")
  • Completable in one session (not ongoing SaaS)
  • Adjacent to your paid product's value prop

Read the full file on GitHub · 327 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. 10d ago First seen · 327 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 2ee596a1f1a0

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free-tool-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository MoizIbnYousaf/marketing-cli (31 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 3,083 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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