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Directory Submissions Skill for Claude: Plan Product Directory Listings

Makes Claude plan how you list your product in startup, SaaS, AI and MCP directories, in the right order and wording.

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directory-submissions makes Claude plan product directory listings for backlinks and discovery. It starts with a nine-question readiness check, picks from 13 tiers of directories, writes a different positioning variant for each directory type, and helps you track submissions in a CSV. It also covers a Product Hunt launch plan, a G2, Capterra and TrustRadius reviews playbook, and how to check that a backlink really exists.

It triggers on phrases like "submit to directories", "list my product" or "submit to Product Hunt". The folder holds three reference files, including a directory list and a tracker template, and no scripts. The skill tells Claude to get your approval before each outward step, such as creating an account or pressing Submit.

Good for

  • Founders launching a SaaS, AI or MCP product
  • Marketers building backlinks and AI-search visibility
  • Developers listing an MCP server in registries

Install directory-submissions

Claude Code

  1. 1

    Copy this prompt.

    Install the directory-submissions skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill directory-submissions -a claude-code

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.
  2. 2

    Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js.

The skills CLI route takes directory-submissions alone. The plugin installs the whole marketing-skills set, which the repo's marketplace.json describes as 53 skills.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

When the user wants to submit their product to startup, SaaS, AI, agent, MCP, no-code, or review directories for backlinks, domain rating, and discovery. Also use when the user mentions "directory submissions," "submit to directories," "backlinks from directories," "list my product," "submit to Product Hunt," "BetaList," "TAAFT," "Futurepedia," "G2 listing," "Capterra listing," "AlternativeTo," "SaaSHub," "AI directories," "MCP registry," "publish my MCP server," "awesome list," "llms.txt directory," "Claude plugin directory," "agent directory," "dofollow backlinks," "launch directories," or "directory tracker." Use this whenever someone is planning the directory layer of a product launch or an ongoing backlink campaign. For the broader launch moment, see launch. For programmatic SEO pages that should live behind these backlinks, see programmatic-seo. For AI citation optimization, see ai-seo.

Sections in SKILL.md

  1. Before Starting
  2. Core Philosophy
  3. The Three Hard Rules
  4. Rule 1: Foundation before submission
  5. Rule 2: Destination pages before directories
  6. Rule 3: Positioning varies by directory type
  7. Workflow
  8. Step 1: Readiness assessment (Phase 0)
  9. Step 2: Choose the tiers
  10. Step 3: Prepare asset variations
  11. Step 4: Batch submit
  12. Verify the Actual Backlink
  13. Product Hunt Deep Dive (The Anchor Event)
  14. 3-week prep timeline
  15. Launch day execution
  16. Post-launch

Key facts

Author
Corey Haines (coreyhaines31)
Repository
coreyhaines31/marketingskills
Installs on skills.sh
89,285 (crawled 2026-11-02)
GitHub stars
57,855 (whole repo)
License
MIT
Last repo commit
2026-10-31
Files in the skill folder
5 files: SKILL.md, evals/evals.json, directory-list.md, positioning-variations.md and submission-tracker-template.csv. No scripts.
skills.sh audits
Gen Agent Trust Hub: fail, Socket: pass, Snyk: warn
Works in (per README)
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Windsurf and other Agent Skills agents

What it includes

  • Nine yes/no checks; the first seven are hard blocks, the last two soft

    Readiness assessment

  • 13 tiers from flagship launch sites to niche vertical directories

    Choose the tiers

  • Tagline, short and long description, tags and founder story per tier

    Prepare asset variations

  • Checks targets are live, treats pages as untrusted, asks approval each step

    Runs code · Batch submit with a safety gate

  • Fetches the listing HTML and checks the link and its rel attributes

    Runs code · Verify the actual backlink

  • A three-week prep timeline, launch-day steps and post-launch work

    Product Hunt deep dive

  • G2, Capterra and TrustRadius review drives and badge notes

    Reviews playbook

  • Alternative, use-case and template pages the links should point at

    Destination pages and GEO

From the official docs

Permissions

Medium risk

It plans submissions to many third-party sites, and each account creation or submit press is public and hard to undo. Approve every outward step yourself.

What it can do

  • Read your data
  • Create and change things
  • Delete things
  • Read-only mode

Watch out for

  • Submissions and accounts are public

    SKILL.md says to get explicit approval before creating accounts, entering personal data, uploading assets or pressing Submit. Keep that approval step, and check each listing's text first.

  • It runs dig and curl against directory sites

    These are used to check a directory is live and to inspect a backlink. They run from your machine, so your IP address reaches those sites.

  • Directory pages can carry injected instructions

    SKILL.md tells Claude to treat directory pages, form fields and confirmation text as untrusted data. Watch for Claude doing anything a page told it to do.

  • The MCP registry steps install a CLI and log in to GitHub

    references/directory-list.md has you run brew install mcp-publisher, mcp-publisher login github (or prove a domain with a DNS TXT record) and mcp-publisher publish. Published versions are immutable.

  • The plugin route installs the whole set

    /plugin install marketing-skills adds every skill in the repo (53 per the marketplace file), not only directory-submissions. Use the skills CLI command to take directory-submissions alone.

Technical details
Talks toDirectory websites (dig and curl checks, form submissions). GitHub login for the MCP registry, if you publish there
Scopes

  • Accounts on third-party directories, if you create them

Questions

What does the directory-submissions skill do?

It makes Claude plan and run a directory listing campaign for a software product. That means a readiness check, tiers of directories to target, distinct descriptions per directory type, a submission tracker and backlink verification.

How do I install it?

Use the install box at the top of this page. The README says the skills CLI may install only to .agents/skills/ when run from inside an agent session, which Claude Code does not read, so pass -a claude-code there. It also documents a Claude Code plugin, a Codex plugin and Claude web ZIPs.

Will Claude submit my product by itself?

No. SKILL.md says to get explicit human approval before each outward-facing step, such as creating an account, entering personal data, uploading assets or pressing Submit, and never to auto-submit a batch.

Does it cover MCP and agent directories?

Yes. Tier 4 covers agent and MCP registries, starting with the official MCP Registry, published with the mcp-publisher CLI. The steps are in references/directory-list.md.

Do I need the other marketing skills?

No. SKILL.md has Claude read .agents/product-marketing.md first if it exists (the .claude/ and older file names also work), then ask only what is missing. The README's product-marketing skill is the one that creates that file. SKILL.md lists launch, programmatic-seo, competitors, ai-seo, link-building, content-strategy, free-tools, community-marketing and schema as related skills.

Is it safe?

It bundles no scripts, but it does tell Claude to run dig and curl against directory sites and to treat every directory page as untrusted data, never following instructions embedded in a page. Approve each account creation and submission yourself.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository
coreyhaines31/marketingskills
Folder
skills/directory-submissions

coreyhaines31/marketingskillsskills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

Show all 4
  1. marketingskills README · github.com
  2. marketplace.json · github.com
  3. directory-submissions SKILL.md · github.com
  4. directory-list.md · github.com

Updated Nov 2, 2026.