Breakthrough Advertising Agent Skill

Apply Eugene M. Schwartz's Breakthrough Advertising framework: Mass Desire, 5 States of Awareness, 5 Stages of Market Sophistication, and…

Context cost
82.1k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
15 files · 328.5 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Apply Eugene M. Schwartz's Breakthrough Advertising framework: Mass Desire, 5 States of Awareness, 5 Stages of Market Sophistication, and seven copy techniques. Use when the user mentions "write a headline", "mass desire", "5 states of awareness", "most aware", "problem aware", "unaware", "market sophistication", "first to market", "dead product", "intensify desire", "build belief", "name the mechanism", "borrow believability", "diagnose this ad", "Schwartz", or "Breakthrough Advertising". Also trigger when reviewing landing pages, sales letters, direct-response ads, or headline lists.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

marketing
Filed under

Sales & CRM

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md59.4 kB · preview
--- name: breakthrough-advertising ---
7# Breakthrough Advertising
8
9A copywriter's operating system from Eugene M. Schwartz's 1966 book of the same name (Boardroom 2004 reissue). Schwartz wrote direct-response copy "for the best direct marketers in America" (Edelston foreword, p. iii). The book's one-line thesis, which he discovered only on rereading it eighteen years later: "There is a way to develop an entirely new market for a new or an old product. That way involves a certain number of clearly-defined steps. And in this book I show you every single one of those steps." (p. v)
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11## Core Principle
12
13**Copy cannot create desire — it can only channel it.** "The power, the force, the overwhelming urge to own that makes advertising work, comes from the market itself, and not from the copy. Copy cannot create desire for a product. It can only take the hopes, dreams, fears and desires that already exist in the hearts of millions of people, and focus those already-existing desires onto a particular product. This is the copy writer's task: not to create this mass desire — but to channel and direct it." (p. 3)
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15Because mass desires are built by social, economic, and technological forces "far greater than advertising itself can command" (p. 5), advertising that taps an already-existing desire commands an economic force "hundreds of times more powerful than the mere number of dollars the advertiser can spend on it" — Schwartz's **Amplification Effect** (p. 5). Advertising that tries to *create* a desire instead of channel it "is no longer advertising but education" and "can produce at best only one dollar in sales for every dollar spent" (p. 5). The Edsel — "a good car, backed by a deluge of fine advertising, that died trying to fight the overwhelming switch in demand" (p. 4) — is Schwartz's reminder that you cannot fight a mass desire.
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17**The foundation:** before a single word of the headline is written, three diagnostic questions must be answered (p. 14):
181. What is the **mass desire** that creates this market?
192. How much do these people know today about the way your product satisfies this desire — their **State of Awareness**?
203. How many other products have been presented to them before yours — their **State of Sophistication**?
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22The next three sections answer each question. Then seven techniques govern the body copy. Then six final-touch craft skills reassemble the ad as a living document.
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24## Part 1 — The Diagnostic Triad
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md9,307 words
Files15
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈160
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
81,965
on trigger
The instruction body and 14 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
41.1%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

82.1k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

15 files, 328.5 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md59.4 kB
  • sources.md3.1 kB
  • references/awareness-states.md21.8 kB
  • references/camouflage.md12.2 kB
  • references/case-studies.md37.4 kB
  • references/checklist.md9.9 kB
  • references/concentration.md10.9 kB
  • references/final-touches.md27.9 kB
  • references/gradualization.md21.5 kB
  • references/identification.md16.3 kB
  • references/intensification.md36.1 kB
  • references/mass-desire.md19.1 kB
  • references/mechanization.md9.2 kB
  • references/redefinition.md10.4 kB
  • references/sophistication.md33.3 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 15 files you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Breakthrough Advertising · 82.1k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/breakthrough-advertising/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/breakthrough-advertising" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising ] || { mv .claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/breakthrough-advertising" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add ivcota/breakthrough-advertising

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/breakthrough-advertising/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/breakthrough-advertising" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/breakthrough-advertising" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/breakthrough-advertising/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where.

Which clients pick it up on their own

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Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
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DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
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Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
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