Agent skill

Marketing Psychology

by borghei in borghei/Claude-Skills

Apply behavioral psychology, cognitive biases, and 70+ mental models to marketing for conversion optimization, pricing, copy, and campaigns.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Marketing Psychology

skills CLI
$ npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill marketing-psychology -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install borghei/Claude-Skills marketing-psychology --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing/marketing-psychology .claude/skills/marketing-psychology && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
marketing-psychology
GitHub stars
891
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
605 words
Files
7 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
354
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Apply behavioral psychology, cognitive biases, and 70+ mental models to marketing for conversion optimization, pricing, copy, and campaigns.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the desired behavior (click,… → Identify the current friction (too many… → Map the visitor's emotional state… → …
  • Behavioral science
  • SKILL.md covers Core Capabilities, When to Use, Quick Start and References, plus 3 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python

What it does

Marketing Psychology is an agent skill from borghei/Claude-Skills. Apply behavioral psychology, cognitive biases, and 70+ mental models to marketing for conversion optimization, pricing, copy, and campaigns. Use for persuasion, behavioral science, why people buy, consumer behavior, or neuromarketing.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/application-playbooks.md`, `references/ethics-and-quality.md` and `references/mental-models.md`).

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Marketing psychology, Conversion rate optimization and Landing pages. The repository describes itself as: 385 AI skills, 77 expert agents, and 900 stdlib Python tools for every team: engineering, PM, marketing, C-level, compliance, business ops, research, and a LinkedIn toolkit… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Behavioral science
  • Consumer behavior

Example prompts

  • “/marketing-psychology”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify the desired behavior (click, buy, share, return)
  2. Identify the current friction (too many choices, unclear value, no urgency)
  3. Map the visitor's emotional state (excited, skeptical, confused, impatient)
  4. Match to applicable principles from references/mental-models.md
  5. Implement 2-3 principle-based changes with specific execution

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4a698e8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Marketing Psychology loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 605 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~6.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from borghei/Claude-Skills at commit 4a698e8, republished under its MIT licence (© borghei). 605 words, ~1,427 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/marketing-psychology/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
marketing-psychology
description
Apply behavioral psychology, cognitive biases, and 70+ mental models to marketing for conversion optimization, pricing, copy, and campaigns. Use for persuasion, behavioral science, why people buy, consumer behavior, or neuromarketing.
license
MIT
metadata.version
1.1.0
metadata.author
borghei
metadata.category
marketing
metadata.domain
psychology
metadata.updated
2026-06-15

Marketing Psychology

Applied behavioral science for marketing — identifying which psychological principles apply to specific challenges and showing exactly how to implement them. The skill diagnoses behavioral barriers, prescribes 2-3 relevant principles from a catalog of 70+ mental models, and turns them into concrete, testable changes to landing pages, pricing, email, copy, and ads.

Core Capabilities

  • Behavioral diagnosis — map the decision journey, identify barriers (cognitive load, choice paralysis, trust deficit, friction), and prescribe matching principles
  • Mental model catalog — 70+ principles across buyer psychology, persuasion/influence, pricing, design/UX, and growth
  • Application by challenge — principle-by-principle playbooks for landing pages, pricing pages, email, churn reduction, and ad creative
  • Pricing & conversion frameworks — three-tier/decoy pricing design, the trust cascade, the micro-commitment ladder
  • Copy techniques — loss vs. gain framing, specificity bias, future pacing
  • Ethical application — the persuasion/manipulation line, anti-dark-pattern boundaries, A/B testing discipline

When to Use

  • A page, pricing tier, email, or ad is underperforming and you need a behavioral root-cause diagnosis
  • You are designing or optimizing a pricing page (anchoring, decoy, charm pricing, tier structure)
  • You want to apply psychology to copy or campaign creative with specific, testable changes
  • You need to audit existing assets for missing persuasion principles or dark patterns

Quick Start

Diagnose Why Something Is Not Converting
  1. Identify the desired behavior (click, buy, share, return)
  2. Identify the current friction (too many choices, unclear value, no urgency)
  3. Map the visitor's emotional state (excited, skeptical, confused, impatient)
  4. Match to applicable principles from references/mental-models.md
  5. Implement 2-3 principle-based changes with specific execution
Apply Psychology to a Marketing Asset
  1. Select the asset (landing page, pricing page, email, ad)
  2. Review the applicable psychology in references/application-playbooks.md
  3. Choose 3-5 principles to apply
  4. Implement each with the specific technique described
  5. Measure the impact through A/B testing

References

Load the reference that matches the task — keep this file lean and pull detail on demand:

  • references/mental-models.md — full catalog of 70+ principles (buyer psychology, persuasion, pricing, design/UX, growth) with definitions and marketing applications. Read when matching a barrier to the principle that addresses it.
  • references/application-playbooks.md — behavioral diagnosis workflows, principle-by-challenge tables (landing pages, pricing, email, churn, ads), pricing framework, trust cascade, micro-commitment ladder, and copy techniques. Read when diagnosing a problem or applying psychology to an asset.
  • references/ethics-and-quality.md — ethical guidelines (persuasion vs. manipulation), best practices, troubleshooting table, and success criteria. Read when judging whether a technique is ethical or hardening an implementation.
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Python Automation Tools

  • scripts/persuasion_auditor.py — audits copy for Cialdini's 7 principles plus behavioral economics techniques; flags what's applied and what's missing.
  • scripts/cognitive_bias_checker.py — identifies cognitive biases leveraged (or missed) in copy, pricing pages, and landing pages.
  • scripts/pricing_psychology_analyzer.py — analyzes pricing page structure for anchoring, decoy effect, charm pricing, framing, and tier design.
bash
python scripts/persuasion_auditor.py page.html
python scripts/cognitive_bias_checker.py pricing_page.html --json
python scripts/pricing_psychology_analyzer.py pricing.json

Scope & Limitations

In Scope: Behavioral psychology principles applied to marketing, conversion optimization, pricing strategy, copy improvement, campaign design. 70+ mental models with implementation guides.

Out of Scope: Academic psychology research, clinical applications, UX research methodology (use product-team), A/B test statistical analysis tools, consumer psychology outside marketing context.

Limitations: Psychology provides hypotheses, not certainties. All changes must be A/B tested. What works for consumer SaaS may not work for enterprise. Cultural context matters significantly. Principles should be applied ethically — persuasion that helps customers make good decisions, not manipulation.

Integration Points

  • Copywriting — Apply psychological principles when writing page copy (headlines, CTAs, objection handling).
  • Landing Page Generator — Use psychology to guide page structure and section ordering.
  • Paid Ads — Apply ad-specific psychology (mere exposure, contrast effect, curiosity gap) to creative.
  • Pricing — Apply pricing psychology (anchoring, decoy, charm pricing) to pricing page design.
  • Copy Editing — Use the Heightened Emotion sweep to apply psychology during editorial review.
  • Marketing Context — Understanding customer psychology informs positioning and messaging strategy.

© borghei, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (scripts, references) in marketing/marketing-psychology of borghei/Claude-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/application-playbooks.md
  • references/ethics-and-quality.md
  • references/mental-models.md
  • scripts/cognitive_bias_checker.py
  • scripts/persuasion_auditor.py
  • scripts/pricing_psychology_analyzer.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4a698e8

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Questions about Marketing Psychology

What does Marketing Psychology do?

Apply behavioral psychology, cognitive biases, and 70+ mental models to marketing for conversion optimization, pricing, copy, and campaigns. Marketing Psychology is an agent skill from borghei/Claude-Skills. Apply behavioral psychology, cognitive biases, and 70+ mental models to marketing for conversion optimization, pricing, copy, and campaigns.

When should I use Marketing Psychology?

Marketing Psychology fits situations like: behavioral science; consumer behavior.

How do I install Marketing Psychology in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill marketing-psychology -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (marketing/marketing-psychology in borghei/Claude-Skills) into .claude/skills/marketing-psychology in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Marketing Psychology in Codex?

Run `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill marketing-psychology -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (marketing/marketing-psychology in borghei/Claude-Skills) into .agents/skills/marketing-psychology in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Marketing Psychology in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill marketing-psychology -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/marketing-psychology, .gemini/skills/marketing-psychology, .github/skills/marketing-psychology and .opencode/skills/marketing-psychology in your project.

What does Marketing Psychology need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Marketing Psychology needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Marketing Psychology access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Marketing Psychology safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Marketing Psychology use?

Marketing Psychology is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Marketing Psychology use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Marketing Psychology?

borghei (a GitHub user) maintains it in borghei/Claude-Skills, which has 891 GitHub stars. The repository holds 354 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: borghei/Claude-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.