referral-programs skillA
referral-programs is agent-read markdown (skill) from cbrock84/headcount: 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..
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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. …
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How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/referral-programs@git:20260916.e72e404mdr add cbrock84/headcount/referral-programs@sha256:19c35cd546cf7b15Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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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
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- 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
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Source
cbrock84/headcount · 1,664 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main
API
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