influencer-discovery

influencer-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from superamped/ai-marketing-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding and rating people who influence a specific audience across platforms such as YouTube, X, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and Instagram.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build sponsorship, affiliate, co-marketing, outreach, public-relations, or audience-research lists for a defined market.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching for relevant voices and comparing potential partners. It also helps avoid overlooking smaller influencers or important platforms.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-marketing-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build sponsorship, affiliate, co-marketing, outreach, public-relations, or audience-research lists for a defined market.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superamped/ai-marketing-skills/influencer-discovery
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 superamped/ai-marketing-skills --skill influencer-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superamped/ai-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,060 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 $0.00057 $0.02060
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00206

Measured 12d ago against content hash 87d3fe780bfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

influencer-discovery 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/research/influencer-discovery/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Influencer Discovery

Usage

Use when finding influencers to partner with for sponsorships, affiliate deals, or co-marketing. Also useful for identifying thought leaders your target audience already follows, building a media list for outreach or PR, or understanding who shapes opinion in your niche before creating content.

Process

Step 1: Gather Inputs

Ask the user for:

  1. Industry/niche — the topic domain (e.g., "B2B SaaS marketing", "personal finance for millennials", "indie game development")
  2. Target audience — who follows these influencers, framed as the buyer (e.g., "SaaS founders", "freelance developers", "e-commerce store owners")
  3. Platform focus (optional) — prioritize specific platforms (YouTube, X/Twitter, Newsletters, Podcasts, Instagram). Default: search all.
  4. Minimum follower count (optional) — exclude influencers below a threshold. Default: no minimum (micro-influencers included).

Extract from inputs:

  • Niche keywords: The 3-5 topic terms that define the industry
  • Audience profile: Who the target audience is (role, stage, problem domain)
  • Platform priorities: Which platforms to weight more heavily

Step 2: Generate Search Queries

Generate 10 search queries to surface influencers across platform types and discovery angles:

"Top influencers" list queries:

  • "top [niche] influencers [current year]"
  • "best [niche] creators to follow"
  • "top [audience] thought leaders"

Platform-specific queries:

  • "top [niche] youtube channels"
  • "[niche] youtube [subscribers OR creators]"
  • "best [niche] newsletter substack"
  • "top [niche] podcast"
  • "[niche] twitter thought leaders"

Cross-platform discovery:

  • "[niche] conference speakers [current year]"
  • "who sponsors [niche] newsletters"
  • "[niche] podcast guest list"

Step 3: Search YouTube

Search YouTube for top channels in the niche:

  • Use queries: "top [niche] YouTube channels", "[audience] YouTube", "[niche keyword] tutorial/advice channel"
  • For each channel found, collect: Channel name, URL, subscriber count, content focus
  • Aim for 20-30 YouTube channels across macro (500k+), mid-tier (50k-500k), and micro (<50k) tiers

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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 · 213 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 87d3fe780bfa

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influencer-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository superamped/ai-marketing-skills (67 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,060 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 2026-08-30.

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