Reach the marketers wiring AI agents into their stack.
A thousand technical marketers actively building AI workflows are worth more to a martech tool than a hundred thousand generic devs. Marketing Skills is the library they install into Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex — and your presence lives inside the skills their agents run. Placement in the workflow itself, not a banner beside it.
Why sponsor
Placement at the moment of work
A partner skill loads exactly when a user is doing the job your tool exists for — someone running the cold-outbound skill is a cold-outbound buyer, mid-task. That's intent-based placement, not impressions.
Placement AI can't disintermediate
Sponsorships that depend on humans visiting a website are losing reach to AI assistants. Here, the skill file is the distribution surface — it's installed into the agent, so your presence travels with the workflow wherever it runs.
Credibility that protects your spend
Strict editorial rules — no paid influence over core skills, disclosed partner skills — are what keep this library trusted and installed. A placement is only worth buying inside something people trust.
Tiers
Sponsors give money and get visibility — frictionless, via GitHub Sponsors. Partners sign an agreement, collaborate on a disclosed skill, and get a badge — vetted, application-only. Founding rates hold for early partners and are grandfathered.
Supporter
$1–199/moGitHub Sponsors
- Listed as a supporter on the repo README
- Listed in the site sponsors section
- Good karma for keeping the core free
Sponsor
$200/moGitHub Sponsors
- Featured logo — larger, top of the sponsor list
- Link + short blurb on README and site
- Everything in Supporter
Skill Partner
$500/moInvoiced via Stripe · 6-mo minimum
- A dedicated, disclosed partner skill in skills/partners/
- Launch announcement — tweet + Swipe Files newsletter mention
- Everything in Sponsor
Application required. Annual prepay: 2 months free.
Category Partner
$1,500/moInvoiced via Stripe · 6-mo minimum
- Category exclusivity — the only tool in your category with a partner skill
- “Official [Category] Partner of Marketing Skills” title + badge
- Top placement in the program's sponsor listings for your category
- Quarterly Swipe Files feature
- Permanent slot in relevant YouTube video descriptions
- Dual launch post — announced on our channels and yours
- Everything in Skill Partner
Application required. Annual prepay: 2 months free.
Category availability
One Category Partner per category — that's the point. Claimed categories are off the market until the partnership ends.
House Tool: Truelist is built by the maintainer. Its category is reserved, not sold, and its skill carries stricter disclosure than any paying partner's. Category definitions are written into each agreement so exclusivity is unambiguous.
What sponsorship buys — and what it never does
No paid influence over core skills. Ever.
Sponsorship adds content — a partner skill — it never biases what existing skills say or recommend. Exclusivity applies to sponsorship slots, never to the agent's answers.
Disclosure travels with the file.
Every partner skill carries sponsored: true and the partner name in frontmatter, plus a plain disclosure sentence in the content. Skills get forked and re-indexed across the ecosystem — the disclosure goes wherever the file goes.
Partner skills live in skills/partners/.
Physically separate from core skills. No mixing, no ambiguity about what's sponsored.
Partner skills never hijack generic queries.
They trigger only when a user is working with or asking about that specific tool.
Corey holds final editorial control.
Partners draft collaboratively; accuracy edits happen whenever they're needed. It's in the agreement.
Vetted, then paid.
Partner tiers are application-only. The badge is worth something precisely because money alone can't buy it.
Where the money goes
What sponsorship funds: maintaining the existing skills, building new ones, and keeping the core library free and open source under MIT. Sponsors and partners fund the work — they don't buy the recommendations. Core skills stay free, stay open, and stay editorially independent, whoever is paying.
Current sponsors
FAQ
Does sponsorship change what the core skills recommend?
No — ever. Sponsorship adds content (a clearly disclosed partner skill), it never biases existing skills. Exclusivity applies to sponsorship slots, never to what the agent recommends. If a core skill mentions your competitor because that's the right answer, money doesn't change it.
How is a partner skill disclosed?
Disclosure travels with the file, not just the site. Every partner skill ships with sponsored: true and the partner's name in its frontmatter, plus a plain sentence at the top: “This is an official partner skill maintained in collaboration with [Tool].” Skills get scraped, forked, and re-indexed across the ecosystem — file-level disclosure survives all of that.
What exactly does category exclusivity cover?
It means no competing tool in your category gets a partner skill or a partner slot while your agreement is active. It does not mean core skills only recommend you, and it doesn't restrict what any skill says. Categories have tight written definitions in the partner agreement so there's no ambiguity about who counts as a competitor — and multi-category tools claim one category, with exclusivity binding only in the category they claim.
Do you edit the partner skill, or do we?
It's collaborative: you draft with us, and Corey holds final editorial control — including the ability to update the skill for accuracy at any time. Partner skills only trigger when a user is working with or asking about your tool; they never hijack generic queries.
What happens if we cancel?
Partner tiers carry a 6-month minimum. If a partnership lapses, there's a 30-day notice period where the skill is flagged as unmaintained before removal — we don't silently break anyone's installs. Renewal is an explicit conversation, not an automatic charge.
Why is Truelist listed in the category grid?
Truelist is built by Corey, the repo's maintainer. It holds the email-verification category as a House Tool — that slot is not for sale, and Truelist's skill carries stricter disclosure than paying partners (its frontmatter notes the repo author owns the tool). We'd rather over-disclose the self-dealing than pretend it isn't there.
Can we just pay for the badge without the application?
No. Partner tiers are application-only — vetted, then paid. And to be precise about what the badge means: paid, disclosed, vetted-for-fit partnership. It is not a claim that yours is the best tool in the category, and it never changes what any skill recommends. That precision is exactly what keeps the badge worth carrying.
Apply for a partner tier
For Skill Partner and Category Partner. Just want to sponsor? Skip the form — GitHub Sponsors takes two minutes.