Marketing Skills (Corey Haines)
coreyhaines31/marketingskills52 marketing skills for CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, paid ads and growth, built around a shared product-marketing context file.
Recommended
Check first Depth 4/5
Aaron Marketing Skills Claude skills
120 marketing skills across seven disciplines (narrative, SEO/GEO, social, email, paid ads, influencer, launch) with scored auditor gates and an optional 8-bot team mode.
Our verdict Recommended with caveats
Deep and unusually well-tested for marketing skills, but 120 skills and custom frameworks are a lot to learn and keep loaded.
Depth expertise shipped Security Review before installing Maintenance Updated today Adoption stars License Apache-2.0, commercial OK
The author changed 2 of 120 skill folders after our review (noticed Oct 29, 2026). The review describes the earlier version; we recheck changed skills weekly, the most significant changes first.
What Aaron Marketing Skills does
Aaron Marketing Skills organizes marketing work into seven disciplines with 16 skills each: narrative, SEO and GEO, social, email, paid ads, influencer and launch. Each discipline has lifecycle phases, for example paid ads moves from research to orchestrate, activate and scale. Slash commands such as /aaron-marketing:seo-geo and /aaron-marketing:auto route a goal to the right skills. Eight auditor skills act as gates and score output against named frameworks (TALE, CORE-EEAT, CITE, ECHO, SEND, ROAS, STAR, RAMP), returning outcomes such as SHIP, FIX or BLOCK. The ad-account auditor, for instance, runs a 20-item ROAS profile on your exported data.
A protocol layer adds shared registries for entities, claims, consent, launches and channels plus hot, warm and cold memory. Skills are plain Markdown averaging 12.6 KB, with small Bash and Python standard-library runtimes for hooks, validation, scoring and connectors, and 137 eval files. Every skill is said to work using only data you provide. It installs as a plugin, as portable skills, or as an 8-bot setup for Grok Bot and Hermes. The size is the main cost: 120 skills compete for the agent's attention.
Good for
- Marketing teams that want audit-style gates on copy, SEO and ad accounts
- Agencies running repeatable multi-discipline workflows
- GEO and AI-citation optimization of content
Not for
- Users who want a handful of focused skills
- Compliance-critical campaigns without human review
What's inside depth 4/5
120 skills averaging 12.6 KB, 137 eval files, shared references and small scripted runtimes for scoring and validation.
- Skills
- 120
- Reference docs
- 139
- Scripts
- 0
- Tests / evals
- 137
- Templates
- 0
- Avg SKILL.md
- 12.3 KB
Counted from the repository file tree. How we score depth.
Dependencies and costs
- Bash and Python standard library for the runtimes
- Optional connectors and your own exported campaign data
Security review
Review before installingA large set of Markdown marketing skills (ads, email, influencer). Two skills pre-approve only WebFetch. Several skills call Python connector scripts and the README says the Claude Code plugin ships hooks on every prompt and tool call, but neither the scripts nor the hooks are in our files, so what they do could not be verified. Resend and YouTube connectors use your own API keys against those services, and the skills say sending email or changing provider state needs separate explicit approval.
Worth knowing
- Needs an API key for its own serviceThe Resend connector needs RESEND_API_KEY and the YouTube connector (influencer/report/performance-analyzer/SKILL.md line 59) needs YOUTUBE_API_KEY, each described as read-only against its own service.email/setup/deliverability-qa/SKILL.md:52
- Makes network requestsConnectors call the Resend, YouTube, Firecrawl and DNS-over-HTTPS services; the email render builder (email/engage/email-render-builder/SKILL.md line 54) can also send a render-test email through Resend.influencer/report/performance-analyzer/SKILL.md:59
- Relies on a CLI or package we could not reviewInstall paths use the vercel-labs
npx skills addinstaller and the plugin marketplace; the connector and hook code lives in directories (scripts/, hooks/) that are not in our snapshot.README.md:66
What we checked
The repository (961 files) on Oct 29, 2026. Not a full review: 889 of 961 files were not downloaded (large repository; we reviewed the skill folders); it relies on code outside the repository: scripts/connectors/*.py, hooks/ and other plugin runtime code (not downloaded); npx skills installer (vercel-labs/skills); Claude Code plugin hooks described in README.md line 245 (SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop).
NVIDIA SkillSpector static scan: 30 pattern hits (Excessive Agency 23, Data Exfiltration 3, MCP Rug Pull 2, Prompt Injection 1, System Prompt Leakage 1). The HIGH hits are ordinary prose: 'silently sending' describes a risk of a mislabeled email field, and 'output rules' is a heading. The Medium 'without asking' and 'no consent' hits are guardrail wording in audit skills; the star-history URL is a README badge.
A review, not a certification. Skills change after we check them — read the files before installing.
License
Apache-2.0 — commercial use allowed.
Can it run unattended?
Not really. Skills end in SHIP, FIX or BLOCK decisions for a human; the bot-team mode was not something we could verify as unattended.
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FAQ
What is Aaron Marketing Skills?
It is a library of 120 agent skills for narrative, SEO and GEO, social, email, paid ads, influencer and launch work, with auditor skills that score output against named frameworks.
How do I install Aaron Marketing Skills?
Use the Claude Code plugin from the repo's marketplace, install the portable skills with a skills installer, or use the 8-bot setup. Start with /aaron-marketing:auto and describe your goal.
Aaron Marketing Skills vs coreyhaines31/marketingskills?
Aaron's pack is much larger and adds scored auditor gates and shared registries. Corey Haines's set is a smaller collection focused on CRO, copywriting, SEO and analytics tasks.
Sources: GitHub repository (stars, license, file tree, last push Oct 29, 2026). Review based on the README and SKILL.md files as published.