atl-btl-messaging

atl-btl-messaging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (813 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A messaging guide for adapting sales messages to senior executives, managers, and individual contributors. It distinguishes strategic concerns from day-to-day work problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose message length, tone, and topics for VPs, C-level leaders, directors, managers, and end users.
Why use it?
It prevents using the wrong level of detail or the wrong business concern for the person receiving the message.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose message length, tone, and topics for VPs, C-level leaders, directors, managers, and end users.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/atl-btl-messaging
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 swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill atl-btl-messaging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swan-gtm/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 813 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 $0.00063 $0.00813
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00081

Measured 12d ago against content hash 06eb10a01eaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atl-btl-messaging 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/alex-vacca/atl-btl-messaging/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ATL vs BTL Messaging Framework

Above-the-Line (ATL) - VPs, C-Level, Directors

Mindset:

  • Think past and future (strategic)
  • Want validation, not problems solved
  • Care about big picture, not daily operations

What They Care About:

  • Revenue impact
  • Risk reduction
  • Strategic initiatives
  • Competitive positioning
  • Board/investor optics

Message Length: 2-3 sentences only

Language to Use:

  • "Strategic initiative"
  • "Revenue impact"
  • "Competitive advantage"
  • "Board-level priority"
  • "Risk mitigation"

Example ATL Email:

Subject: Q1 revenue efficiency

{{firstName}},

If you could identify revenue leakage 3 months faster, what would that mean for next year's targets?

We helped {{similar_company}}'s CEO do exactly that.

15 minutes to explore?

Fatal ATL Mistake: Talking about operational problems = immediate delegation to subordinate


Below-the-Line (BTL) - Managers, ICs, End-Users

Mindset:

  • Think present (tactical)
  • Want problems solved immediately
  • Care about daily workflow

What They Care About:

  • Daily pain points
  • Time savings
  • Workflow improvements
  • Making their job easier
  • Looking good to their boss

Message Length: 3-4 sentences acceptable

Language to Use:

  • "Stop spending 3 hours every week on..."
  • "Eliminate the manual work of..."
  • "Never deal with {{pain}} again"
  • "Save {{X}} hours per week"

Example BTL Email:

Subject: 3 hours back

Hey {{firstName}},

Stop spending 3 hours every week fighting with Excel.

We helped {{similar_company}}'s ops team cut their reporting time by 70%.

Want to see how?

Fatal BTL Mistake: Talking about ROI and strategic impact = doesn't resonate, too abstract


Decision Framework: Who to Target

Target ATL (Executives) When:

  • Deal size > $50K ACV
  • Strategic/transformation purchase
  • Requires budget approval from top
  • Long sales cycle acceptable

Target BTL (End-Users) When:

  • Product-led growth motion
  • User adoption drives expansion
  • Bottom-up sale
  • Need internal champion first

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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 · 137 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 06eb10a01eaf

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atl-btl-messaging is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 813 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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