Agent skill

Content Strategy

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Decides what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business outcome rather than to traffic.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Content Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill content-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount content-strategy --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/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/marketing/skills/content-strategy .claude/skills/content-strategy && 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
content-strategy
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~752 tokens
SKILL.md length
401 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Decides what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business outcome rather than to traffic.

  • Tasks that involve Content strategy
  • SKILL.md covers Claim a territory, not a topic…, Match format to job, Cadence beats volume and Platform commitment, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Content Strategy is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Decides what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business outcome rather than to traffic. Use this to plan a content program, choose topics, build an editorial calendar, decide which formats and platforms to commit to, or diagnose why content is producing audience but not results.

Its SKILL.md is about 750 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Content strategy. The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Content strategy

Example prompts

  • “Use the content-strategy skill to decide what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business…”
  • “/content-strategy”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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

Content Strategy loads about 752 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 401 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~752
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.1k

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 401 words, ~752 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/content-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
content-strategy
description
Decides what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business outcome rather than to traffic. Use this to plan a content program, choose topics, build an editorial calendar, decide which formats and platforms to commit to, or diagnose why content is producing audience but not results.

Content strategy

Claim a territory, not a topic list

A content program works when a defined audience learns to expect a specific kind of value from you. That requires a territory narrow enough to own: the intersection of what you know unusually well, what your buyer needs help with, and what nobody else is covering properly.

Test it: could a competitor publish your last ten pieces without anyone noticing? If yes, you have a topic list.

Match format to job

Every piece should have one job, and the job dictates the format:

  • Reach — a claim someone would repeat. Short, opinionated, self-contained.
  • Trust — depth that demonstrates competence. Long, specific, evidenced.
  • Conversion — content adjacent to the buying decision: comparisons, implementation guides, objection answers.
  • Retention — content that makes existing customers better at the thing.

Programs skew heavily to reach and then wonder why the audience does not convert. Budget across all four deliberately.

Cadence beats volume

Pick a frequency sustainable at your worst week, not your best. Irregular publishing costs more than infrequent publishing, because the audience stops expecting you.

Platform commitment

Two platforms done properly beat five done adequately. Choose by where the audience already is and which format you can actually sustain — not by reach numbers.

Every piece should be planned with its derivatives: the long piece is the source, and the short-form versions are extracted, not written separately.

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Measurement

Measure by job. Reach content is judged on reach; conversion content on conversion. Judging everything on traffic is why content programs drift toward the reach end and stay there.

Set a review point where a topic that is not working gets dropped. Content strategies fail by accumulation.

Sources

references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.

Never

  • Claim a territory you cannot sustain publishing on. Withdrawing from one costs more than never entering it.
  • Commit to a platform without deciding who runs it every week.
  • Judge a content program on traffic when the objective was demand.

Return contract

Territory, audience, the four-way format budget, cadence, platforms with rationale, first ten pieces with the job of each, and what you are choosing not to cover.

© cbrock84, 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 1 other file (references) in plugins/marketing/skills/content-strategy of cbrock84/headcount.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Content Strategy

What does Content Strategy do?

Decides what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business outcome rather than to traffic. Content Strategy is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Decides what content to make and why — topic territory, format mix, cadence, and how content connects to a business outcome rather than to traffic.

When should I use Content Strategy?

Content Strategy fits situations like: tasks that involve Content strategy.

How do I install Content Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill content-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/marketing/skills/content-strategy in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/content-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Content Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill content-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/marketing/skills/content-strategy in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/content-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Content Strategy 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 cbrock84/headcount --skill content-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/content-strategy, .gemini/skills/content-strategy, .github/skills/content-strategy and .opencode/skills/content-strategy in your project.

What does Content Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Content Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Content Strategy 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 Content Strategy 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Content Strategy use?

Content Strategy is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Content Strategy use?

About 752 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k 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 310 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Content Strategy?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Content Strategy: Blogger Distiller (otter1101/blogger-distiller, 697 stars), Linkedin Content Planner (sergebulaev/linkedin-skills, 4.4k stars), Blog Post Drafting (luongnv89/claude-howto, 42k stars) and WeChat Hot Article Analysis (SpaceZephyr/creator-buddy, 1.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Content Strategy?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,016 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.