referral-programs SKILL.md skillA
referral-programs from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/referral-programs@git:20260916.e72e404Pins git:20260916.e72e404 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/revenue/skills/referral-programs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.e72e404, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,447 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Designs and improves referral, affiliate, and word-of-mouth programs — incentive structure, mechanics, timing, and fraud control. Use this to build a referral or affiliate program, diagnose one that is not producing, decide what incentive to offer, or judge whether referral is a realistic channel for a product.
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 programs ## Qualify the channel first Referral programs amplify existing word of mouth. They do not create it. If customers are not already recommending you unprompted, a program will not produce them — it will produce incentive-motivated signups that churn. Check first: is anyone referring today, and what do they say when they do? ## Incentive design - **Two-sided beats one-sided** in most cases. It gives the referrer something to offer rather than something to gain, which removes the awkwardness that stops most referrals. - **Match the reward to the product's value**, not to a round number. Account credit usually outperforms cash, and costs less. - **Reward the outcome you want.** Paying on signup buys signups; paying on a retained, activated customer buys customers. - **Cash rewards attract fraud**, and fraud scales faster than the program does. Budget for detection before launch, not after. ## Mechanics The referral has to be effortless at the moment of enthusiasm, which means the ask must appear right after a success moment — not in a settings page nobody visits. - One-click share with pre-written text the referrer can edit. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/referral-programs@sha256:19c35cd546cf7b15The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.e72e404, 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 3 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 3,447 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.aa45383 | 2026-09-01 | aa45383 | 3,108 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.f80dcb5 | 2026-08-28 | f80dcb5 | 2,675 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3447 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oorvhgu32frdeerh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/referral-programs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/19c35cd546cf7b150bef9d2cc0ed11d9fc0dd30ba21e615cd96c5168d7899008
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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