# marketing-copy

Drafts launch posts, store descriptions, landing headlines and press notes. Checks first that no key, unlisted link or unshipped feature leaks into public text.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 224
- Author: scarletkc
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/scarletkc/agents/tree/HEAD/skills/marketing-copy/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/marketing-copy

## What it does

Reach for this skill when the text is aimed at people who have never used the product. It works the draft along three lines: what may be disclosed, what backs each claim, and whether the opening line says anything.

Disclosure comes first. Keys, invite codes and credentials never belong in a post — they go where access is handed out on its own terms. A URL that has not been announced stays unannounced even if it loads. Platform rules apply to the copy, not just the account: when a detail cannot be posted, drop it rather than allude to it. Roadmap items get described as roadmap items or left out.

Claims have to trace back to something shipped — a changelog, a commit range, release notes. The skill will not make up a metric, a benchmark, a user count or a comparison against a named competitor. A thin honest sentence tells you about the release, not about your writing. There is also a naming pass for other markets: check that the candidate is pronounceable, carries no stray meaning and does not clash with an existing product, then keep it fixed once it ships. Internal strings and docs are handled by `ux-writing` in the same repository.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scarletkc/agents --skill marketing-copy -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scarletkc/agents --skill marketing-copy -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scarletkc/agents --skill marketing-copy -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install scarletkc/agents marketing-copy
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/marketing-copy/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scarletkc/agents --skill marketing-copy -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/scarletkc/agents --path skills/marketing-copy
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add scarletkc/agents --skill marketing-copy -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/scarletkc/agents/tree/HEAD/skills/marketing-copy/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a launch post without giving away what should stay private
- cut a feature description down to what the changelog supports
- replace hype in a landing headline with something concrete
- check whether a link or price can go in a public announcement
- pick a product name that works in another language

## Example prompts
- Draft a community post about the 2.1 release — `CHANGELOG.md` is the only source, promise nothing beyond it
- Rewrite this landing headline: it says “revolutionary” and nothing about what the product does
- Review this announcement draft for anything that cannot be public yet

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

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---
name: marketing-copy
description: "Write outbound promotional copy for a product or project: launch and update posts for community platforms and social media, store page descriptions and short blurbs, landing page headlines and calls to action, press-style announcements, and the naming of a product for another language or market. Covers what may be disclosed publicly, keeping claims traceable to shipped changes, and writing a headline that carries information instead of hype. Use when drafting or revising anything aimed at people who do not use the product yet, and when deciding whether a link, key, price, or unreleased detail can appear in public copy."
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: scarletkc
  source: https://github.com/scarletkc/agents
  summary: "Write outbound promo copy that stays truthful, discloses only what may be public, and earns attention without hype."
---

# Marketing Copy

Outbound copy reaches people who have no product context and no reason to
finish reading. It is also the surface where a disclosure mistake is
permanent: a post can be deleted, a screenshot of it cannot. Both facts push
the same way, toward concrete claims a reader can check.

This covers copy aimed outward. Product-internal strings and documentation
follow
[`ux-writing`](https://github.com/scarletkc/agents/blob/main/skills/ux-writing/SKILL.md);
matching the author's personal voice is
[`talk-like-scarletkc`](https://github.com/scarletkc/agents/blob/main/skills/talk-like-scarletkc/SKILL.md).

## Disclosure comes first

Decide what may be public before writing, because the draft is where a leak
gets normalized.

- **Keys, invite codes, and credentials are not copy.** Anything that grants
  access belongs in the channel that distributes it under its own terms,
  never inline in a public post, and never pasted into a draft "to be removed
  later".
- **An unreleased or unlisted URL stays unlisted.** A link that has not been
  announced is not published just because it resolves. The same applies to
  endpoints, staging hosts, and pages reachable only by those already told.
- **Platform rules bind the copy, not just the account.** Each destination
  has its own limits on what may be promoted, linked, priced, or given
  away, and they differ between platforms carrying the same post. When a
  rule makes a detail unpostable, drop the detail; hinting at it obliquely
  to stay within the letter of the rule is the same violation with worse
  writing.
```
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