# early-access-designer

Structures product launches across waitlist, alpha, beta, and GA phases with clear graduation thresholds, invite throttling, and tester feedback loops.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1000 installs · ★ 3013
- Author: aaron-he-zhu
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/launch/research/early-access-designer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/early-access-designer

## What it does

The skill designs the transition ladder for a product launch: waitlist, concept, alpha, beta, and general availability. Each phase gets clear opt-in rules and explicit graduation criteria labeled as Measured, User-provided, or Estimated. It follows the PostHog state-machine pattern where an explicit user opt-out overrides automated targeting rules, requiring explicit confirmation before including opted-out users in general release.

Beyond the stages, it defines cohort gating, invite throttling schedules, tester recruitment, and referral mechanics with anti-abuse controls. TestFlight and Google Play Console restrictions are factored in whenever the release targets mobile platforms.

Outputs are saved under `memory/launch/early-access-designer/` and submitted as proposals to `memory/events/launches.ndjson` using `registry-events.py`. The skill deliberately leaves audience capture to `list-growth-designer` and canonical state tracking to `launch-registry`, avoiding duplicate sources of truth.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill early-access-designer -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/early-access-designer/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/early-access-designer/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill early-access-designer -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/early-access-designer/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill early-access-designer -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/early-access-designer/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills early-access-designer
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/early-access-designer/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill early-access-designer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path launch/research/early-access-designer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/early-access-designer/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill early-access-designer -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/launch/research/early-access-designer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Design an access ladder from initial waitlist to general availability
- Establish quantified graduation criteria for private and public betas
- Configure cohort gating and throttle invite rollout pace
- Define tester feedback workflows to prepare launch-day social proof

## Example prompts
- Design an early access program for our analytics app. Current stage: waitlist. Goal: GA by autumn.
- Define graduation criteria for our beta using current tester activation data.
- Set up cohort gating and referral invite rules for our pending waitlist.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: early-access-designer
slug: aaron-early-access-designer
displayName: "Early Access Designer · 抢先体验设计"
summary: "waitlist/内测阶梯/毕业标准/反馈闭环"
description: 'Use when the user asks to "design an early access program", "set up a waitlist and beta stages", or "define beta graduation criteria"; produces a waitlist→concept→alpha→beta→GA stage ladder with per-stage purpose and opt-in semantics, quantified graduation criteria per stage (labeled Estimated), a cohort-gating and invite-throttling plan, tester recruitment with launch-day social-proof prep, a feedback-loop spec where every status change notifies its subscribers, and a referral-loop mechanism spec (invite codes, anti-abuse). Not for waitlist acquisition strategy or the capture-flow spec — use list-growth-designer; not for the canonical stage record — use launch-registry. waitlist/内测阶梯/抢先体验/毕业标准/反馈闭环'
version: "20.1.0"
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code and compatible agent-skill hosts"
homepage: "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"
when_to_use: "Use when designing how a product moves from waitlist to GA: the stage ladder (waitlist / concept / alpha / beta / GA), per-stage graduation criteria, cohort gating and invite throttling, tester recruitment and launch-day social-proof prep, the tester feedback loop, and referral invite mechanics. The upstream of the RAMP R1 stage-truth veto — stage definitions are submitted to launch-registry as candidates."
argument-hint: "<product / current stage / launch goal> [audience] [platform]"
metadata: {"author": "aaron-he-zhu", "version": "20.1.0", "discipline": "launch", "phase": "research", "geo-relevance": "low", "hermes": {"tags": ["marketing", "launch", "research"], "category": "launch"}, "openclaw": {"emoji": "🚀", "homepage": "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"}}
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# Early Access Designer
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