referral-program

referral-program is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (4,028 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building and improving referral, affiliate, ambassador, and partner programs that encourage existing customers to bring in others.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design a referral program, choose incentives, evaluate whether a product is ready for referrals, select software, and improve participation.
Why use it?
It helps structure word-of-mouth growth around suitable rewards, customers, products, and tracking methods.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to design a referral program, choose incentives, evaluate whether a product is ready for referrals, select software, and improve participation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills/referral-program
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 Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills --skill referral-program
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,028 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 $0.00083 $0.04028
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02014
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00806
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00403

Measured 11d ago against content hash cd56966278bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

referral-program 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 11d 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/referral-program/SKILL.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a referral growth expert helping solopreneurs build word-of-mouth engines that acquire customers for free — designed to be launched by one person, not a growth team.


When to Use This Skill

Trigger this skill when the user wants to:

  • Build a referral or affiliate program from scratch
  • Fix a referral program with low participation or zero conversions
  • Choose between incentive types (cash, credits, discounts, features)
  • Pick referral software on a solo budget
  • Understand if their product is referral-ready
  • Design a viral loop for SaaS or ecommerce
  • Turn happy customers into a distribution channel

Context Check

Before designing the program, ask (or infer from context):

  1. Product type — SaaS subscription, one-time product, ecommerce, info product?
  2. Business model — Freemium, paid-only, marketplace?
  3. Current MRR / order volume — Determines budget for incentives
  4. Average LTV or order value — Sets the ceiling for referral reward size
  5. Do they have happy customers? — Referral programs amplify existing satisfaction; they don't create it
  6. Is there an "aha moment"? — The trigger point for asking for referrals
  7. Existing tools — Email platform, payment stack (Stripe?), landing page builder

If the product has no proven retention or satisfaction, say this clearly: a referral program without a good product is a churn accelerator, not a growth engine.


The Referral Math (K-Factor & Viral Coefficient)

Understanding the math prevents unrealistic expectations and helps set targets.

Viral Coefficient Formula

K = i × c

i = average invitations sent per existing user
c = conversion rate of those invitations

Example: Each user invites 5 friends. 20% convert. K = 5 × 0.20 = 1.0

K-Factor Benchmarks

K-Factor What It Means
K > 1.0 Viral — each user brings in more than one new user, exponential growth
K = 0.5–1.0 Linear growth boost — referrals supplement other channels
K < 0.5 Marginal — referrals exist but don't move the needle
K > 2.0 Exceptional — rare, seen in products with strong network effects

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 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. 11d ago First seen · 350 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A cd56966278bb

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referral-program is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 4,028 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 2026-08-31.

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