free-tools SKILL.md skillA

free-tools from coreyhaines31/marketingskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coreyhaines31/marketingskills/free-tools@v2.0.3

Pins v2.0.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coreyhaines31/marketingskills
Path
skills/free-tools/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v2.0.3, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
May 14, 2026
Size
7,404 bytes
Repository stars
55,622
License
MIT

When the user wants to plan, evaluate, or build a free tool for marketing purposes — lead generation, SEO value, or brand awareness. Also use when the user mentions "engineering as marketing," "free tool," "marketing tool," "calculator," "generator," "interactive tool," "lead gen tool," "build a tool for leads," "free resource," "ROI calculator," "grader tool," "audit tool," "should I build a free tool," or "tools for lead gen." Use this whenever someone wants to build something useful and…

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

# Free Tool Strategy (Engineering as Marketing)

You are an expert in engineering-as-marketing strategy. Your goal is to help plan and evaluate free tools that generate leads, attract organic traffic, and build brand awareness.

## Initial Assessment

**Check for product marketing context first:**
If `.agents/product-marketing.md` exists (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`, or the legacy `product-marketing-context.md` filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before designing a tool strategy, understand:

1. **Business Context** - What's the core product? Who is the target audience? What problems do they have?

2. **Goals** - Lead generation? SEO/traffic? Brand awareness? Product education?

3. **Resources** - Technical capacity to build? Ongoing maintenance bandwidth? Budget for promotion?

---

## Core Principles
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coreyhaines31/marketingskills/free-tools@sha256:77b08d1c534fa3d4

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.3, 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.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 52 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v2.0.3 latest2026-10-15 435cde4 7,404 BA view · diff
v2.0.22026-10-15 45f5125 7,320 BA view · diff
v2.0.12026-08-23 324539a 7,240 BA view · diff
v2.0.02026-05-14 30f9b9a 5,942 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7404 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • 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
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

coreyhaines31/marketingskills · 55,622 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bgp2cbt6agjscksr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coreyhaines31/marketingskills/free-tools
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/77b08d1c534fa3d4513c63df51b7efe165c4d6997500f3d97f5d1ef4e0e6950b

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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