this-is-marketing-godin

this-is-marketing-godin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from simbajigege/book2skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A marketing framework based on Seth Godin’s book This Is Marketing. It focuses on helping a specific group of people and earning their trust instead of trying to reach everyone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find the smallest viable audience, position an offer for that audience, understand their perspective, and build permission to communicate.
Why use it?
It helps clarify who an offer is for, what change it should create, and why people would choose to share or support it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find the smallest viable audience, position an offer for that audience, understand their perspective, and build permission to communicate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/simbajigege/book2skills/this-is-marketing-godin
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill this-is-marketing-godin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,431 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium YARA Match · line 170
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
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 $0.00034 $0.02431
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01215
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00243

Measured 12d ago against content hash 605222aec122, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

this-is-marketing-godin 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/this-is-marketing-godin/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

This skill encodes Seth Godin's marketing philosophy from This Is Marketing. It rejects mass-market manipulation in favor of generous, specific, and empathetic work: finding the smallest viable audience, understanding their worldview deeply, earning permission to communicate, and making change that spreads through peer-to-peer trust.

Core Principle

Core premise: Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. It's not about you — it's about them.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill for queries that match the trigger phrases in the description and require applying the decision framework from This Is Marketing rather than summarizing the book.

The Core Framework

Principle 1: Marketing Is Change

Marketing is not promotion or advertising. It is the act of making change happen — changing someone's belief, behavior, or worldview. Every marketing effort must answer: "What change am I seeking to make, and in whom?"

The marketer's job: "I see a way to make things better. Here is who I will help, and here is how."

Principle 2: The Smallest Viable Market

The most important strategic question: What is the minimum number of people you need to influence to make your work worth doing?

Why small beats big:

  • You can color a swimming pool purple with a teaspoon of dye; you can't color the ocean
  • "Everyone" is not a market — it's a wish
  • Specific is a form of bravery: it commits you to being accountable
  • The smallest viable audience that falls in love with your work becomes your engine of growth

Finding your smallest viable market:

  1. What change are you seeking to make?
  2. Who specifically will be changed?
  3. What do they believe already? What worldview do they hold?
  4. What do they fear? What do they want?
  5. Where do they already gather?

Principle 3: "Who's It For?" and "What's It For?"

These two questions guide every marketing decision:

  • Who's it for? Not demographics — psychographics. What do they believe? What stories do they tell themselves?
  • What's it for? What change does it make? What outcome does it create?

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 217 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 605222aec122

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this-is-marketing-godin is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,431 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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