marketing-council

An agent skill by coreyhaines31, from coreyhaines31/marketingskills. Tags: brainstorming, evaluation, marketing, multi-agent, strategy.

What it does

When the user wants multiple expert perspectives on a marketing question — a simulated board of advisors staffed by legendary marketers (Seth Godin, David Ogilvy, Eugene Schwartz, April Dunford, Rory Sutherland, Alex Hormozi, Byron Sharp, and more). Also use when the user mentions 'marketing council,' 'board of advisors,' 'advisory board,' 'what would Seth Godin say,' 'what would Ogilvy think,' 'channel Hormozi,' 'get multiple perspectives,' 'debate this,' 'have the council review,' 'marketing mentors,' or asks how a famous marketer would approach their problem. The council gives each advisor's take through their documented frameworks, surfaces where they disagree, and synthesizes a recommendation. For executing the winning direction, hand off to positioning, offers, copywriting, ads, or the relevant skill.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill marketing-council

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills
cp -r marketingskills/skills/marketing-council ~/.claude/skills/marketing-council

Safety box score

Grade B, low risk: 14 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-10-17. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.

This skill is a mostly read-only marketing strategy advisor that simulates a council of famous marketers and may read local context files before answering. The main risks are optional web research that sends your question off-box and a custom-advisor flow that writes persistent files into your project.

Category levels, from 0 (none) to 3 (high)
Category	Level	Why
Code & shell execution	0 (none)	No shipped scripts or code-evaluation steps are included; the skill is markdown-only guidance.
Network access	2 (moderate)	The live research pass explicitly says to use web search or a deep-research skill for `[advisor name] + [topic]`, which can send the user's question and context to external services.
Filesystem reach	2 (moderate)	It reads local context files like `.agents/product-marketing.md` / `.claude/product-marketing.md` and tells the agent to save custom advisors to `.agents/advisors/<kebab-name>.md` in the user's project.
Secrets & credentials	0 (none)	The skill does not ask for API keys, passwords, token files, browser sessions, or other credentials.
Privilege & persistence	0 (none)	There is no sudo, global install, service registration, shell-profile editing, or other privilege-changing behavior.
Instruction hijack surface	0 (none)	It contains persona-simulation instructions, but also grounding rules like 'No fabricated quotes' and does not tell the agent to ignore higher-priority instructions or follow hidden content.
Irreversible actions	0 (none)	The skill is advisory only and hands off to other skills for execution; it does not itself buy, post, deploy, or delete anything.
Transparency	0 (none)	All source files are plain-readable markdown; there are no binaries, installers, base64 blobs, or unpinned remote fetches in the skill files themselves.

Before installing

Decide whether you want this skill to use live web research; if not, keep it away from recency-specific questions.
Check whether you have sensitive notes in `.agents/product-marketing.md` / `.claude/product-marketing.md`, since the skill reads them automatically.
If you plan to add a custom advisor, confirm you're okay with the skill creating `.agents/advisors/<name>.md` in your project.

Rated 2026-10-17 by an automated review of 15 files from the skill's repository.

Source

Repository: coreyhaines31/marketingskills (all skills from this repository)
Path: skills/marketing-council/SKILL.md
Branch: main
Collection: marketingskills
Updated: 2026-09-21

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