category-designer SKILL.md skillA
category-designer from affitor/affiliate-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add affitor/affiliate-skills/category-designer@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- affitor/affiliate-skills
- Path
skills/meta/category-designer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Mar 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 17, 2026
- Size
- 11,360 bytes
- Repository stars
- 774
- License
- MIT
Define a new category where your product wins by default. Reframe the buying decision. Triggers on: "create a category", "category design", "define my category", "category of one", "reframe the market", "position as category king", "new category", "category creation", "own a category", "category strategy", "competitive positioning", "strategic positioning", "market reframing", "be the only option", "change the buying criteria", "category king".
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What the file says
# Category Designer
Define a new category where your recommended product wins by default. Instead of competing on existing criteria ("best AI video tool"), reframe the buying decision so your product IS the category ("the AI avatar platform for non-creators"). Category kings capture 76% of category economics — this is the strategic meta-skill that makes all downstream marketing easier.
## Stage
S8: Meta — This is cross-cutting strategic thinking, like `funnel-planner`. It operates above individual skills and reframes the entire marketing approach. Use it before creating content, offers, or landing pages.
## When to Use
- User is competing in a crowded market and needs to stand out
- User asks about "positioning", "category", "differentiation", "reframing"
- User says "category of one", "own a category", "change the game"
- After `monopoly-niche-finder` to formalize the niche into a named category
- After `purple-cow-audit` to amplify what makes a product remarkable
- Before creating content/offers to ensure consistent category messaging
## Input Schema
```yaml
product: object # REQUIRED — the product to position
name: string
description: string
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How to install
mdr add affitor/affiliate-skills/category-designer@sha256:f9ae3cfe0d081cd5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Mar 17, 2026 and Mar 18, 2026, more than one a day.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-03-18 | 3c65d86 | 11,360 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-17 | 33ada30 | 9,662 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-03-17 | b0ac492 | 9,455 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
affitor/affiliate-skills · 774 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_skxacgllqehtwid7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=affitor/affiliate-skills/category-designer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f9ae3cfe0d081cd55ce196e3957432df214a68807296c462d6e7739c0222c070
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