purple-cow-audit
Score product remarkability 1-10 to decide if it's worth promoting. Seth Godin's Purple Cow test. Triggers on: "is this product worth promoting", "should I promote", "product audit", "purple cow", "remarkable product", "is it remarkable", "rate this product", "product quality check", "worth my reputation", "product evaluation", "would I recommend without commission", "product remarkability score", "evaluate this affiliate product", "quality gate for promotion".
npx skills add Affitor/affiliate-skills --skill purple-cow-audit --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Purple Cow Audit Quality gate for affiliate marketers: score a product's remarkability 1-10 before promoting it. Based on Seth Godin's Purple Cow — if the product isn't remarkable, no amount of marketing skill will make it convert sustainably. The key question: "Would I recommend this to a friend WITHOUT earning a commission?" ## Stage S1: Research — Evaluating a program's worthiness IS part of research and discovery. This is a quality gate before you invest time creating content, landing pages, and email sequences. ## When to Use - User is considering promoting a specific product - User asks "is this product worth promoting?" - User wants to evaluate product quality before investing time - User says "purple cow", "remarkable", "audit", "evaluate", "quality check" - Before investing time in S2-S5 skills for a specific product - User has a list of programs from `affiliate-program-search` and needs to pick the best ## Input Schema ```yaml product: # REQUIRED name: string # Product name url: string # Product website description: string # OPTIONAL — what it does reward_value: string # OPTIONAL — commission rate tags: string[] # OPTIONAL — categories comparison_products: string[] # OP
- Stage
- When to Use
- Input Schema
- Workflow
- Step 1: Research the Product
- Step 2: Score Remarkability
- Step 3: Make Recommendation
- Step 4: Identify Remarkable Angles
- Step 5: Self-Validation
- Output Schema
- Output Format
- Error Handling
- Examples
- Revenue & Action Plan
What does the purple-cow-audit skill do?
Score product remarkability 1-10 to decide if it's worth promoting. Seth Godin's Purple Cow test. Triggers on: "is this product worth promoting", "should I promote", "product audit", "purple cow", "remarkable product", "is it remarkable", "rate this product", "product quality check", "worth my reputation", "product evaluation", "would I recommend without commission", "product remarkability score", "evaluate this affiliate product", "quality gate for promotion".
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add Affitor/affiliate-skills --skill purple-cow-audit --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From Affitor/affiliate-skills, a repository with 586 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.