Agent skill

Suede Free Tools

by JasonColapietro in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills

Suede-affiliated engineering-as-marketing strategy for selecting, scoring, and scoping calculators, graders, generators, and other free interactive tools.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Suede Free Tools

skills CLI
$ npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-free-tools -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-free-tools --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/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/suede-free-tools .claude/skills/suede-free-tools && 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
suede-free-tools
GitHub stars
127
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,106 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
78
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Suede-affiliated engineering-as-marketing strategy for selecting, scoring, and scoping calculators, graders, generators, and other free interactive tools.

  • Works in 10 steps: Solve a Real Problem → Adjacent to Core Product → Simple and Focused → …
  • The user wants a lead
  • SKILL.md covers Initial Assessment, Core Principles, Tool Types Overview and Ideation Framework, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Suede Free Tools is an agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills. Suede-affiliated engineering-as-marketing strategy for selecting, scoring, and scoping calculators, graders, generators, and other free interactive tools. Use when the user wants a lead, link, education, or product-adoption asset with a measurable path to the paid product. NOT FOR: downloadable lead assets (use suede-lead-magnets), implementation of a full website (use suede-site-alchemy), or search diagnostics (use suede-seo-audit).

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including reference files (for example `CARD.md`, `agents/openai.yaml` and `evals/evals.json`).

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Go-to-market strategy, SEO audit and Content marketing. The repository describes itself as: Open-source AI skills for SEO, AI search visibility, conversion copy, marketing strategy, and business operations. Reusable workflows for Claude Code and Codex, plus code review… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants a lead
  • Product-adoption asset with a measurable path to the paid product

Example prompts

  • “/suede-free-tools”

Workflow steps

10 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Solve a Real Problem
  2. Adjacent to Core Product
  3. Simple and Focused
  4. Worth the Investment
  5. Recommended Tool
  6. Scorecard
  7. MVP Scope
  8. Gating Decision
  9. SEO Target
  10. Instrumentation Handoff

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e5f94d7. 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

Suede Free Tools loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 114 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,106 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~114
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.2k

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 JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills at commit e5f94d7, republished under its MIT licence (© JasonColapietro). 1,106 words, ~2,212 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/suede-free-tools/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
suede-free-tools
description
Suede-affiliated engineering-as-marketing strategy for selecting, scoring, and scoping calculators, graders, generators, and other free interactive tools. Use when the user wants a lead, link, education, or product-adoption asset with a measurable path to the paid product. NOT FOR: downloadable lead assets (use suede-lead-magnets), implementation of a full website (use suede-site-alchemy), or search diagnostics (use suede-seo-audit).
metadata.version
2.0.0

Suede Free-Tool Growth Strategy

Suede uses engineering as marketing when a genuinely useful tool can create qualified discovery and a natural bridge to the paid product. Select, score, and scope the smallest maintainable calculator, grader, generator, or utility whose output earns attention rather than merely capturing it.

Initial Assessment

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing.md, or the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before designing a tool strategy, understand:

  1. Business Context - What's the core product? Who is the target audience? What problems do they have?

  2. Goals - Lead generation? SEO/traffic? Brand awareness? Product education? What is one lead worth (LTV and close rate from this source)?

  3. Resources - Technical capacity to build? Ongoing maintenance bandwidth? Budget for promotion? Timeline?

  4. Existing Behavior - What tools or manual workarounds does the audience use today? How are leads generated now?


Core Principles

1. Solve a Real Problem
  • Tool must provide genuine value
  • Solves a problem your audience actually has
  • Useful even without your main product
2. Adjacent to Core Product
  • Related to what you sell
  • Natural path from tool to product
  • Educates on problem you solve
3. Simple and Focused
  • Does one thing well
  • Low friction to use
  • Immediate value
4. Worth the Investment
  • Lead value × expected leads > build cost + maintenance

Populate all four terms before calling the go/no-go, and show the arithmetic:

  • Lead value = customer LTV × close rate for this lead source, from the intake numbers.
  • Expected leads = monthly search volume for the SEO target keyword × a stated visit-to-use rate × a stated use-to-capture rate.
  • Build cost = the MVP scope below, in engineer-days.
  • Maintenance = engineer-days per quarter to keep data, dependencies, and the hosting current.

State every rate you assumed and where it came from. If a term cannot be sourced, say which one and mark the go/no-go unresolved rather than filling it in.


Tool Types Overview

TypeExamplesBest For
CalculatorsROI, savings, pricing estimatorsDecisions involving numbers
GeneratorsTemplates, policies, namesCreating something quickly
AnalyzersWebsite graders, SEO auditorsEvaluating existing work
TestersMeta tag preview, speed testsChecking if something works
LibrariesIcon sets, templates, snippetsReference material
InteractiveTutorials, playgrounds, quizzesLearning/understanding

For detailed tool types and examples: See references/tool-types.md


Ideation Framework

Start with Pain Points
  1. What problems does your audience Google? - Search query research, common questions

  2. What manual processes are tedious? - Spreadsheet tasks, repetitive calculations

  3. What do they need before buying your product? - Assessments, planning, comparisons

  4. What information do they wish they had? - Data they can't easily access, benchmarks

Validate the Idea
  • Search demand: Is there search volume? How competitive?
  • Uniqueness: What exists? How can you be 10x better?
  • Lead quality: Does this audience match buyers?
  • Build feasibility: How complex? Can you scope an MVP?

Lead Capture Strategy

Gating Options
ApproachProsCons
Fully gatedMaximum captureLower usage
Partially gatedBalance of bothCommon pattern
Ungated + optionalMaximum reachLower capture
Ungated entirelyPure SEO/brandNo direct leads
Lead Capture Best Practices
  • Value exchange clear: "Get your full report"
  • Minimal friction: Email only
  • Show preview of what they'll get
  • Optional: Segment by asking one qualifying question

The gating trade-off itself (per-field conversion cost and how to frame the exchange) is owned by suede-lead-magnets. Use its gating tables when deciding what to ask for; the table above only covers where the gate sits in a tool.


SEO Considerations

Keyword Strategy

Tool landing page: "[thing] calculator", "[thing] generator", "free [tool type]"

Supporting content: "How to [use case]", "What is [concept]"

Free tools attract links because:

  • Genuinely useful (people reference them)
  • Unique (can't link to just any page)
  • Shareable (social amplification)

Build vs. Buy

Build Custom

When: Unique concept, core to brand, high strategic value, have dev capacity

Use No-Code Tools

Options: Outgrow, Involve.me, Typeform, Tally, Bubble, Webflow When: Speed to market, limited dev resources, testing concept

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Embed Existing

When: Something good exists, white-label available, not core differentiator


MVP Scope

Minimum Viable Tool
  1. Core functionality only: does the one thing, works reliably
  2. Essential UX: clear input, obvious output, mobile works
  3. Basic lead capture: email collection, leads go somewhere useful
What to Skip Initially

Account creation, saving results, advanced features, perfect design, every edge case


Evaluation Scorecard

Rate each factor 1-5:

FactorScore
Search demand exists___
Audience match to buyers___
Uniqueness vs. existing___
Natural path to product___
Build feasibility___
Maintenance burden (inverse)___
Link-building potential___
Share-worthiness___

25+: Strong candidate | 15-24: Promising | <15: Reconsider

Anchors for the three decisive factors: score these against the anchor, not on impression, and cite the evidence used:

Factor135
Search demand existsNo query with measurable volumeA query family in the hundreds of searches/monthA head term in the thousands/month
Build feasibilityNeeds a data pipeline, licensed data, or an ongoing integrationTwo to four engineer-weeks with known componentsOne engineer-week, one screen, no backend state
Maintenance burden (inverse)Depends on data refreshed on a schedule or a third-party APIOccasional content or dependency updatesStatic computation, nothing to refresh

Output Format

Return exactly these sections:

Name and the one-sentence job it does for the user.

2. Scorecard

The filled table with a score per factor, the total, and the verdict band. For the three anchored factors, name the evidence behind the score.

3. MVP Scope

Two explicit lists: In (what v1 does) and Out (what is deliberately deferred). No item appears in both.

4. Gating Decision

Which option from Gating Options, and the trade-off accepted in one line.

5. SEO Target

The single target query for the tool page, plus the supporting-content query.

6. Instrumentation Handoff

The two or three usage events the tool must emit (use, complete, capture) so suede-analytics can read the funnel. This skill does not define the metrics plan itself.


Boundaries

  • Do not claim search demand, lead volume, link potential, or build feasibility without evidence and dated assumptions.
  • Do not build, deploy, publish, collect leads, or connect production data unless the user authorizes implementation.
  • Do not invent tool outputs or use a calculator as disguised professional, legal, medical, or financial advice.
  • Do not decide pricing, data-retention, or consent policy for the user.

Routing

  • Use suede-lead-magnets for downloadable assets and suede-site-alchemy for the public conversion surface.
  • Use suede-seo-audit for search validation and suede-analytics for usage measurement.
  • Use suede-emails for the post-capture lifecycle sequence.
  • Use suede-content-strategy for the supporting content around the tool page.
  • Use suede-ads and suede-social for tool distribution and launch promotion.
  • Use suede-ab-testing to design and evaluate tests on the tool page or its gate.

© JasonColapietro, 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 4 other files (references) in skills/suede-free-tools of JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • CARD.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/tool-types.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e5f94d7

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Questions about Suede Free Tools

What does Suede Free Tools do?

Suede-affiliated engineering-as-marketing strategy for selecting, scoring, and scoping calculators, graders, generators, and other free interactive tools. Suede Free Tools is an agent skill from JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills. Suede-affiliated engineering-as-marketing strategy for selecting, scoring, and scoping calculators, graders, generators, and other free interactive tools.

When should I use Suede Free Tools?

Suede Free Tools fits situations like: the user wants a lead; product-adoption asset with a measurable path to the paid product.

How do I install Suede Free Tools in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-free-tools -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/suede-free-tools in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills) into .claude/skills/suede-free-tools in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Suede Free Tools in Codex?

Run `npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-free-tools -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/suede-free-tools in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills) into .agents/skills/suede-free-tools in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Suede Free Tools 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 JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-free-tools -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/suede-free-tools, .gemini/skills/suede-free-tools, .github/skills/suede-free-tools and .opencode/skills/suede-free-tools in your project.

What does Suede Free Tools need to run?

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

Does Suede Free Tools 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 Suede Free Tools 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 Suede Free Tools use?

Suede Free Tools 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 Suede Free Tools use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.8k 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 1k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Suede Free Tools?

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Who maintains Suede Free Tools?

JasonColapietro (a GitHub user) maintains it in JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills, which has 127 GitHub stars. The repository holds 78 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.