affiliate-marketing

affiliate-marketing is a skill for Codex from san-npm/skills-ws. It costs 68 tokens per session (4,955 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning and running affiliate programs, where partners earn commissions for sending customers or sales. It covers program structure, tracking, fraud checks, legal requirements, recruiting, and payouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when launching an affiliate program, choosing between an in-house system and an affiliate network, designing commissions, checking tracking, reviewing fraud, recruiting partners, or handling payouts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unclear commission rules, unreliable sales attribution, fraudulent referrals, and missed tax or privacy obligations.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it when launching an affiliate program, choosing between an in-house system and an affiliate network, designing commissions, checking tracking, reviewing fraud, recruiting partners, or handling payouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing
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 san-npm/skills-ws --skill affiliate-marketing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/san-npm/skills-ws

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for affiliate-marketing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for affiliate-marketing

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/affiliate-marketing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,955 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 $0.00068 $0.04955
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02478
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00991
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00496

Measured 12d ago against content hash bd8c241446f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

affiliate-marketing 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.

skills/affiliate-marketing/SKILL.md · 344 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 344 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Affiliate Marketing

Workflow

1. Program Structure

In-house vs network:

Factor In-house Network (Awin, Impact, CJ, etc.)
Setup cost Higher (build/integrate tracking) Lower (platform onboarding fee)
Ongoing cost SaaS tracker fee + payment ops + fraud ops + tax/1099 ops + eng maintenance Network override (commonly ~20-30% on top of commission) + per-payout fees
Control Full Limited by platform rules/TOS
Recruitment You do it all Access to affiliate marketplace
Tracking Custom or SaaS (Rewardful, PartnerStack, FirstPromoter, Tolt) Built-in
Best for SaaS, high-value products, brand control E-commerce, consumer products, fast volume recruitment

"In-house = free" is a myth. Even self-hosting, you pay: SaaS tracker subscription (or build/maintain a click table), payment rails (PayPal/Wise/Tipalti fees, FX, reversals), fraud review labor, tax compliance (W-9/W-8BEN collection, 1099-NEC/1042-S filing), sanctions screening, and ongoing engineering. Budget 3-8% of affiliate GMV for ops on top of commissions; networks bundle most of this into their override.

Recommendation: Start in-house with a SaaS tracker (Rewardful, PartnerStack, FirstPromoter, Tolt) so you keep first-party data and brand control. Add a network only when you need volume recruitment in a marketplace and can absorb the override. Prices/overrides change: verify current network rates at awin.com / impact.com and tracker pricing on each vendor's site (as of Jul 2026); note ShareASale was folded into Awin and its platform closed in late 2025.

2. Commission Models

Model Structure Best for Example
CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) Flat fee per signup/sale SaaS free trials, lead gen $50 per paid signup
CPS (Cost Per Sale) % of sale value E-commerce, variable pricing 20% of first purchase
Recurring % of subscription revenue SaaS with monthly billing 20% for a defined window (see below)
Tiered Increasing % at volume thresholds Motivating top performers 20% (1-10), 25% (11-50), 30% (50+)
Hybrid Base CPA + recurring bonus Balanced motivation $25 CPA + 10% recurring

Read the full file on GitHub · 344 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. 12d ago First seen · 344 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A bd8c241446f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

affiliate-marketing is a skill published in the GitHub repository san-npm/skills-ws (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 4,955 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 2026-08-31.

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