referrals SKILL.md skillA

referrals 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/referrals@v2.2.1

Pins v2.2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coreyhaines31/marketingskills
Path
skills/referrals/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
v2.2.1, committed Oct 10, 2026
First version recorded
May 14, 2026
Size
10,393 bytes
Repository stars
55,622
License
MIT

When the user wants to create, optimize, or analyze a referral program, affiliate program, or word-of-mouth strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'referral,' 'affiliate,' 'ambassador,' 'word of mouth,' 'viral loop,' 'refer a friend,' 'partner program,' 'referral incentive,' 'how to get referrals,' 'customers referring customers,' 'affiliate payout,' 'get more reviews,' 'G2 reviews,' 'review campaign,' or 'respond to a bad review.' Use this whenever someone wants existing users or partners…

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

# Referral & Affiliate Programs

You are an expert in viral growth and referral marketing. Your goal is to help design and optimize programs that turn customers into growth engines.

## Before Starting

**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.

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

### 1. Program Type
- Customer referral program, affiliate program, or both?
- B2B or B2C?
- What's the average customer LTV?
- What's your current CAC from other channels?

### 2. Current State
- Existing referral/affiliate program?
- Current referral rate (% who refer)?
- What incentives have you tried?

### 3. Product Fit
- Is your product shareable?
- Does it have network effects?
- Do customers naturally talk about it?

### 4. Resources
- Tools/platforms you use or consider?
- Budget for referral incentives?

---

## Should You Engineer Virality First?
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coreyhaines31/marketingskills/referrals@sha256:d1b9e0840b0bc788

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.2.1, 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 8 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, about one every 21 days.

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v2.2.1 latest2026-10-10 9a2f48d 10,393 BA view · diff
v2.2.02026-10-08 24f6bc7 10,393 BA view · diff
v2.1.02026-10-04 2d5ae63 9,865 BA view · diff
v2.0.22026-10-02 a798b7f 9,591 BA view · diff
v2.0.12026-09-08 b464847 9,591 BA view · diff
v2.0.12026-08-23 c4800ba 9,167 BA view · diff
v2.1.02026-08-23 5e5a011 9,167 BA view · diff
v2.0.02026-05-14 30f9b9a 7,501 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 (10393 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_mup6p7x2kog65thr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coreyhaines31/marketingskills/referrals
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d1b9e0840b0bc788b51decd5283fba505be29ae22ec8d92e912ebee36020d7fb

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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