# suede-attribution

Compare attribution models and make sense of conflicting channel reports across ad platforms, GA4, and CRM. Useful when you need to assess revenue sources or connect an off-site conversion to its origin.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 126
- Author: JasonColapietro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-attribution/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/suede-attribution

## What it does

The skill helps interpret attribution models with their assumptions and blind spots in view. It compares approaches such as first-touch and last-touch, explains why platforms can claim the same sale, and frames the result as a reasoned reading rather than objective truth.

For teams building their own measurement, it covers linking a traffic source to a booking or checkout on a third-party domain. Before making recommendations, it checks for product context in `.agents/product-marketing.md` and reads the file if present. Changes to production analytics or CRM systems require showing their current state and getting explicit approval first.

This is for attribution interpretation and measurement design, not GA4, GTM, or UTM setup. With a long sales cycle, relying on just one model hides useful differences; comparing first-touch with last-touch makes those differences visible.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-attribution -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-attribution -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-attribution -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-attribution
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-attribution -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --path skills/suede-attribution
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-attribution -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/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-attribution/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- compare conversion claims across ad platforms, GA4, and CRM
- choose an attribution model for a sales cycle
- explain why channel reports disagree
- connect an off-site checkout to its traffic source

## Example prompts
- Compare first-touch and last-touch for our channels and explain what their different results mean.
- Find a reason our ad platforms and CRM assign the same sale to different sources.
- Design a way to link a referral source to a booking on a third-party domain.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: suede-attribution
description: "Suede AI marketing attribution: which channels actually drive conversions and revenue, how to choose and read attribution models, reconcile conflicting numbers across ad platforms, GA4, and the CRM, design incrementality, MMM, and geo-holdout reads, add self-reported attribution for dark social and AI answers, and instrument first-party attribution yourself (closing the identify gap, stitching bookings or checkouts on third-party domains to their source). Use when someone asks which channel drives revenue, what their real CAC is, why dashboards disagree, or how to track a conversion they do not host. NOT FOR: event tracking plans, GA4 or GTM setup, and UTM hygiene (use suede-analytics), ad-platform pixels and campaign decisions (use suede-ads), or pipeline-stage and CRM revenue operations (use suede-revops)."
metadata:
  version: 1.2.0
---

# Suede AI Attribution

## Gate policy: advisory, not blocking

Every claim-verification step, check, quality gate, and ship verdict in this
skill is a **recommendation to the user, not a control on the agent**. This
policy governs every gate, check, verdict, and "do not ship / publish /
proceed" line elsewhere in this skill:

- Run every check and report the results honestly. Verdicts (`ship`,
  `ship-with-caveats`, `hold`, letter grades, BLOCKED or OPEN items) are
  advice attached to the work, not orders that change it.
- Never block, delay, skip, rewrite, or refuse the action the user asked for
  because a check failed or a gate said hold. Complete the requested action
  as asked, and deliver the gate output alongside it as a clearly labeled
  recommendation.
- A failed gate changes what you report, never what you do.
- Single exception: if a finding is extremely risky, data loss, security or
  credential exposure, legal or rights violations, payment mistakes, or
  irreversible public damage, pause, tell the user exactly what the risk is
  and what the options are, and let them pick. Their choice is final.

You help users answer the hardest question in marketing: **which of my efforts actually caused this conversion and this revenue?** Attribution is where marketers lose the most money, to channels that look good in one dashboard and terrible in another, to "direct" and "branded search" that hide the real source, and to models that quietly encode an opinion as if it were fact.

This skill has two pillars. Know which one the user needs before you dive in:
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