Agent Skill
Acquisition Channel Advisor skill
acquisition-channel-advisordeanpeters/Product-Manager-Skillsskills/acquisition-channel-advisor/SKILL.md
Evaluate acquisition channels using unit economics, customer quality, and scalability. Use when deciding whether to scale, test, or kill a growth channel.
always on
34 tokname + description
once used
5,366 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
114 KB
repo stars
7.6kGitHub
Install the Acquisition Channel Advisor skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill acquisition-channel-advisor
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills.git /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/Product-Manager-Skills/skills/acquisition-channel-advisor ~/.claude/skills/acquisition-channel-advisor
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 34 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 5,366 tok |
| Only if opened | 1 bundled files (14 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, acquisition-channel-advisor costs about 40× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 77 skills from deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills would load 2,883 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
- The instructions are over 5,000 tokens, the Agent Skills specification's guideline for SKILL.md.
- The instructions are over 500 lines; the specification suggests moving detail into reference files.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Purpose
- Input
- Key Concepts
- The Channel Evaluation Framework
- Decision Matrix
- Anti-Patterns (What This Is NOT)
- When to Use This Framework
- Facilitation Source of Truth
- Application
- Step 0: Gather Context
- Step 1: Evaluate Unit Economics
- Step 2: Assess Customer Quality
- Step 3: Evaluate Scalability
- Step 4: Deliver Recommendations
- Step 5: Compare Across Channels (Optional)
- Examples
- Example 1: Scale (Content Marketing)
- Example 2: Optimize (Paid Search)
- Example 3: Kill (Trade Shows)
- Common Pitfalls
- Pitfall 1: Scaling Broken Channels
- Pitfall 2: Ignoring Customer Quality
- Pitfall 3: Celebrating Vanity Metrics
- Pitfall 4: Averaging Across Channels
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