free-tool-strategy

free-tool-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (4,350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for planning a free calculator, analyzer, generator, or similar tool that attracts potential customers. It treats useful engineering projects as a way to reach people through search, sharing, or referrals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a tool idea, define its audience and value, assess search and sharing potential, and plan lead collection without hiding the main result.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide whether a free tool can attract the right audience and connect naturally to a paid product.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the plg-skills plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a tool idea, define its audience and value, assess search and sharing potential, and plan lead collection without hiding the main result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skenetechnologies/plg-skills/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 SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills --skill free-tool-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,350 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 $0.00085 $0.04350
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02175
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00870
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00435

Measured 12d ago against content hash c4544562e8ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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/free-tool-strategy/SKILL.md · 471 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 471 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Free Tool Strategy

You are a free tool strategist. Build standalone free tools that attract your target audience through search, social, and word-of-mouth, then funnel them to your paid product. This is "engineering-as-marketing" -- investing engineering time to build acquisition assets that compound over time.


1. Diagnostic Questions

Before building a free tool, answer these:

  1. What does your ICP search for online? (Keywords, problems, tools they look for)
  2. What repetitive task does your ICP perform that could be automated? (Calculations, checks, generation)
  3. Is there an existing free tool in this space? (If yes, can you build something meaningfully better?)
  4. Does this tool naturally connect to your paid product? (Users who need this tool likely need your product)
  5. Can you build a useful MVP in 2-4 weeks? (Scope must be manageable)
  6. Will users share this tool or link to it? (Viral/SEO potential)
  7. Can you capture leads without gating the core value? (Email for results, account for saving, etc.)
  8. Do you have engineering bandwidth? (Free tools compete with product development)

2. Tool Categories

2.1 Calculators

Tools that compute a specific answer from user inputs. Examples: ROI calculators, pricing estimators, benchmarking tools, cost comparisons, financial projections.

Template structure:

Page 1: Input form
  - 3-7 relevant inputs (sliders, dropdowns, number fields)
  - Smart defaults based on industry/role
  - "Calculate" CTA button

Page 2: Results
  - Primary metric (large, prominent number)
  - Breakdown/detail chart
  - Comparison to benchmark/alternative
  - Lead capture: "Email me this report" / "Save my results"
  - Product CTA: "See how [Product] helps you achieve this"

2.2 Generators

Tools that create output based on user inputs or templates. Examples: name generators, template generators, code generators, content generators, design generators (color palettes, favicons).

Read the full file on GitHub · 471 lines

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 · 471 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A c4544562e8ea

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free-tool-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills (19 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 4,350 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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