Affiliate Marketing Skills for Claude Code

Affiliate is a recruiting job wearing a reporting job’s clothes. Finding partners, qualifying them, writing the pitch and proving which sales were genuinely incremental is most of the week, and all four have real Agent Skills behind them. Eleven of them, each a file you can download and read first.

Every entry below links to the raw SKILL.md so you can read it before you install anything. None of these were written by us, and none of them are ours to support.

The 11 skills, with download links

Skill	Group	What it does	Size
apify-link-prospecting-outreach	Finding partners	Finds sites ranking for your keywords and scores every prospect	6,167 words
prospecting	Finding partners	Finds, qualifies and builds a list of prospects	2,433 words
apify-verified-email-finder	Finding partners	Builds verified business emails from Maps, SERPs or a list	1,556 words
apify-lead-scoring-enrichment	Finding partners	Scores and enriches a CSV of leads	2,436 words
cold-email	Outreach	Writes B2B cold emails and follow up sequences that get replies	1,108 words
co-marketing	Outreach	Finds co-marketing partners and plans joint campaigns	1,756 words
directory-submissions	Outreach	Submits a product to startup, SaaS, AI and MCP directories	3,582 words
referrals	Programme design	Creates, optimises and analyses referral and affiliate programmes	1,269 words
revops	Programme design	Handles revenue operations and lead lifecycle	2,242 words
attribution	Proving it worked	Works out which marketing actually drove the conversions	3,093 words
analytics	Proving it worked	Sets up or audits tracking and measurement	1,222 words

Word counts are the size of the instruction file itself, which is a fair proxy for how much the skill actually knows. Every link was checked and returns the file directly.

What an Agent Skill actually is

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md inside it. The file opens with a few lines of YAML and then becomes ordinary Markdown instructions. Claude reads the description to decide when the skill applies, then follows the body. There is no code to run and nothing to configure.

---
name: apify-link-prospecting-outreach
description: Find sites ranking for target keywords, score every prospect with Ahrefs domain authority and page-level traffic, identify the strongest pitch angle p...
---

# Apify Link Prospecting Outreach
...

That is the whole format. It means you can read exactly what a skill will do before you give it to an agent, which is not true of most tooling.

Three ways to install

Pick one. The first is the fastest and the third is the one to use if you care what you are running.

1. Clone the repository

cd ~/.claude/skills
git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills.git
git clone https://github.com/apify/awesome-skills.git

2. Download one skill

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/apify-link-prospecting-outreach
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/apify-link-prospecting-outreach/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/awesome-skills/main/skills/apify-link-prospecting-outreach/SKILL.md

3. Read it first, then install

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apify/awesome-skills/main/skills/apify-link-prospecting-outreach/SKILL.md | less

Restart Claude Code afterwards, or run /skills to confirm it loaded. A skill in ~/.claude/skills is available in every project; one in .claude/skills inside a repository is available only there.

Finding partners

apify-link-prospecting-outreach

Finds sites ranking for your keywords and scores every prospect. Why it earns a place here: The strongest skill in this list. Publisher prospecting is the whole game and this does it against real search data.

Download apify-link-prospecting-outreach · 6,167 words

prospecting

Finds, qualifies and builds a list of prospects. Why it earns a place here: The general version, for partners who are not publishers.

Download prospecting · 2,433 words

apify-verified-email-finder

Builds verified business emails from Maps, SERPs or a list. Why it earns a place here: Turns a prospect list into something you can actually contact.

Download apify-verified-email-finder · 1,556 words

apify-lead-scoring-enrichment

Scores and enriches a CSV of leads. Why it earns a place here: Sorts two hundred prospects into the twenty worth a personal email.

Download apify-lead-scoring-enrichment · 2,436 words

What asking for it looks like:

Find the sites ranking on page one for my ten money keywords, score them by traffic and relevance, and drop anything that already links to a direct competitor.

Outreach

cold-email

Writes B2B cold emails and follow up sequences that get replies. Why it earns a place here: Partner recruitment is cold email with a better offer.

Download cold-email · 1,108 words

co-marketing

Finds co-marketing partners and plans joint campaigns. Why it earns a place here: For the partners too big to recruit with a commission alone.

Download co-marketing · 1,756 words

directory-submissions

Submits a product to startup, SaaS, AI and MCP directories. Why it earns a place here: The unglamorous listing work that seeds early affiliate traffic.

Download directory-submissions · 3,582 words

What asking for it looks like:

Write the first outreach email to a publisher who reviews products in my category. One specific observation about their site, my commission terms, one clear next step, and no adjectives.

Programme design

referrals

Creates, optimises and analyses referral and affiliate programmes. Why it earns a place here: Commission structure, tiers and the terms themselves.

Download referrals · 1,269 words

revops

Handles revenue operations and lead lifecycle. Why it earns a place here: Once the programme has enough partners to need process.

Download revops · 2,242 words

What asking for it looks like:

Design the commission structure for a programme with a $60 AOV and a 30 percent margin. Tell me the cookie window and what to do about coupon sites before they arrive.

Proving it worked

attribution

Works out which marketing actually drove the conversions. Why it earns a place here: The question every affiliate programme is eventually asked, and the one most cannot answer.

Download attribution · 3,093 words

analytics

Sets up or audits tracking and measurement. Why it earns a place here: Last click will flatter your affiliates. This is how you find out by how much.

Download analytics · 1,222 words

What asking for it looks like:

My affiliate report and my analytics disagree by 40 percent. Work out which sales the affiliates genuinely added rather than intercepted, and tell me what data I am missing to be sure.

Installing the whole stack at once

If you want all 11 rather than one, both repositories clone in a single command and Claude Code picks up everything inside them.

cd ~/.claude/skills
git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills.git
git clone https://github.com/apify/awesome-skills.git
git clone https://github.com/apify/agent-skills.git

That pulls in far more than the 11 listed here, which is a trade rather than a free win. A model choosing between eighty skills picks worse than one choosing between fifteen, because the descriptions start to overlap. If you notice the wrong skill firing, delete the folders you do not use.

A working order, not a shopping list

Installing all of them at once is how most people try this and it is why most people conclude it does nothing. The skills compound in a specific order, because several of them are worthless until the measurement underneath them is real.

Step	Install	Why here
1	analytics	Everything below produces numbers. This decides whether you can trust them
2	attribution	Tells you which of the work already done is actually paying
3	prospecting	The cheapest gain available, and it needs the two above to prove itself
4	apify-link-prospecting-outreach	The one closest to your specific job. By now you can measure whether it helped
5	analytics	Keeps every later change honest

Four weeks is enough for this order. Adding the fifth skill in week one instead of week four is the difference between knowing what worked and having an opinion about it.

What this actually replaces

Worth being concrete, because the honest answer is smaller than the pitch and still worth having.

It replaces the blank page. A skill is a checklist someone who knows the job already wrote down. The first draft arrives structured instead of empty.
It replaces remembering. The steps you skip under deadline pressure are the ones a skill does not skip.
It does not replace the decision. Every skill here produces options and reasoning. Choosing between them is still yours, and a skill that sounds confident is not evidence.
It does not replace your data. A skill is instructions, not a connection to anything you own.

What none of these skills are

They are not programme specific, and it is worth being plain about that before you download anything. Nobody has published a skill built for anyone running an affiliate programme. These are general marketing skills whose instructions happen to transfer well, and the transfer is better in some than others: the pricing and conversion skills need almost no translation, the advertising ones need you to map the platform yourself.

They also do not have access to your data. A skill is instructions, not a connection. If you want an agent that can read your live numbers, that is an MCP server, which is a different piece and covered in our guide to influencer marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents.

Frequently asked questions

Are these Agent Skills free?

Yes. Every skill listed here is a public file in a public repository, and the links go straight to the raw Markdown. The Apify skills call the Apify platform, which has its own pricing once you go past the free tier, but the skill files themselves cost nothing.

Do I need Claude Code to use them?

No. A SKILL.md is plain Markdown instructions, so any agent that accepts custom instructions can use one. Claude Code has the tidiest loading mechanism, which is why the install commands above use it.

Is there a skill built specifically for anyone running an affiliate programme?

Not in any public repository we could find. Everything here is a general marketing skill that transfers. That is worth knowing before you install: the pricing and conversion skills need almost no adaptation, the advertising ones need you to map the platform names yourself.

How do I know what a skill will do before I run it?

Read it. That is the real advantage of the format over a plugin or an API. Every download link on this page returns the instruction file directly, so you can see exactly what an agent is being told to do in a few minutes.

Where do these skills come from?

Two public repositories, both linked on every entry: coreyhaines31/marketingskills for the marketing set and apify/awesome-skills for the data collection ones. Neither is ours, and neither is supported by us.