When the agent reaches for it
The agent keeps every installed skill's description in view and loads the full instructions when a request matches. This is the description it reads:
When the user needs a comprehensive marketing plan for a client, a company they advise, or their own product. Also use when the user mentions "marketing plan," "growth plan," "GTM plan," "go-to-market plan," "AARRR plan," "90-day marketing plan," "12-month marketing roadmap," "fractional CMO plan," or "fCMO plan." Generates an exhaustive 13-section plan structured by AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue), customized to the client's current budget, team, and stage, mapped to future funding milestones, cross-referenced with the 139-idea marketing-ideas library and an embedded 17-section current-state audit rubric, with a full marketing operations stack showing which skills and MCP/API integrations execute each part. Outputs a Notion-paste-ready markdown document. For positioning and ICP context before planning, see product-marketing. For stage-specific deep work, see onboarding, signup, emails, referrals, pricing.
What the instructions cover
The sections of its SKILL.md, in order.
- When to use
- How this skill is invoked
- The three phases
- The 13-section plan structure
- The AARRR framing
- Marketing as investing — the north-star framing
- The current-state rubric
- Cross-references — skills this plan integrates with
- The marketing operations stack
- Funding-stage capability unlocks
- Setting the budget scientifically
- Growth patterns — the real shape of SaaS growth
- Team and agency model
- What every plan must customize
- Common client-type variations
- Quality bar
- Output format
- File layout per plan
- Related skills
- Task-specific questions (used during INIT)
- How exhaustive should the plan be?
- A note on tone
What ships with it
Besides SKILL.md, the folder carries these. The agent opens them only when a step in the instructions calls for one.
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evals/ -
references/
Install the marketing plan skill
For Claude Code, run this in a terminal. It comes from the publisher's own instructions.
npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill marketing-plan -a claude-code License: MIT.
In Longwave, add Marketing Skills from the marketplace. It installs all 50 of its skills, and your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode threads can use them.