agency-and-vendor-management SKILL.md skillA
agency-and-vendor-management from the-nam-shub/e5-real-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add the-nam-shub/e5-real-skills/agency-and-vendor-management@v2026-04-20Pins v2026-04-20 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- the-nam-shub/e5-real-skills
- Path
skills/agency-and-vendor-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v2026-04-20, committed Apr 21, 2026
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- 20,580 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- none declared
Guidance for selecting, structuring, and managing relationships with marketing agencies, freelancers, and external vendors — trigger when a user is evaluating, hiring, briefing, or managing an external marketing partner.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Agency & Vendor Management ## Overview This skill covers how B2B marketers should select, structure, brief, and manage relationships with external agencies, freelancers, and vendors — including PR firms, content agencies, creative partners, SEO agencies, paid media specialists, and emerging AI-focused vendors. All practices are sourced exclusively from guests on the Exit Five podcast. No general best practices have been added. --- ## Selecting the Right Agency or Vendor ### PR Agencies - Prioritize boutique PR agencies (typically under 10 people) with strong geographic specialization over large firms. Large agencies assign junior staff to your account and rotate them out; boutique agencies ensure a senior person attends every meeting and owns the relationship day-to-day. Budget $7,000–$14,000 monthly depending on geography and scope ($84,000–$168,000 annually). (Source: Priscilla Barolo, Episodes #302 and #193) - During the pitch process, verify exactly which people will be on your day-to-day team — not just who presents. (Source: Priscilla Barolo, Episode #302) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add the-nam-shub/e5-real-skills/agency-and-vendor-management@sha256:8ed86370e5b60590The line at the top of this page pins the label v2026-04-20, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No script tag
Source
the-nam-shub/e5-real-skills · 10 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3rllf74bz7xjmwtg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-nam-shub/e5-real-skills/agency-and-vendor-management GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8ed86370e5b60590f2b751367c21bfc2d90fc5653a9435dd4c4e59f7be94b643
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