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Prospecting skill

Prospecting is part of Corey Haines' marketing skills. Its job is to find and qualify prospects and build an outreach list. It loads on its own when a request matches its description, and you can also call it by name.

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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 wants to find, qualify, and build a list of prospects to reach out to — across B2B SaaS, general B2B, or local small businesses. Also use when the user mentions "prospecting," "build a prospect list," "find prospects," "find leads," "lead gen list," "find SaaS companies that," "find B2B companies," "find local businesses," "ICP-fit accounts," "who should we go after," "outbound list," "target account list," "find clients near me," "businesses without websites," "prospect research," "qualified leads," "find my first customers," "early adopters," "design partners," "beta users," or "who has this problem." Use this for the list-building and qualification phase. For writing the outbound copy after the list is built, see cold-email. For deep competitive research on specific accounts, see competitor-profiling.

What the instructions cover

The sections of its SKILL.md, in order.

  • Before Starting
  • Pick the Branch
  • Shared Framework (all branches)
  • Compliance Guardrails
  • Inputs to Collect
  • Tool Selection Quick Picks
  • Output Formats
  • Quality Checks (before finalizing)
  • Common Mistakes
  • Task-Specific Questions
  • Tool Integrations
  • Related Skills

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.

  • evals/ 1 file · 12 KB
  • references/ 6 files · 46 KB

Install the prospecting skill

For Claude Code, run this in a terminal. It comes from the publisher's own instructions.

terminal 
npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill prospecting -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.

Questions people ask

How do I install the prospecting skill?

For Claude Code, run npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill prospecting -a claude-code in a terminal. In Longwave, add Marketing Skills from the marketplace, and its skills reach your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode threads.

When does the agent use the prospecting skill?

When a request matches its description. The agent keeps only the name and description of each installed skill in view, and reads the full instructions when a task fits. You can also ask for it by name.

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Longwave installs a skill collection once, and your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode threads can all use it.

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