contagious agent skill by wondelai

At a glance

Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 22, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

• Bundled scripts: none.
• License: MIT, an open-source or open-content license.

Install contagious

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

npx skills add https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/main/contagious

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wondelai/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"contagious .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wondelai/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .agents/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"contagious .agents/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

For a user-level install, copy the folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code) or ~/.agents/skills/ (Codex). Inside Codex, $skill-installer can also fetch a skill from GitHub. New to skills? Read How to install agent skills in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

wondelai/skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

Engineer word-of-mouth and virality using the STEPPS framework (Social Currency, Triggers, Emotion, Public, Practical Value, Stories). Use when the user mentions "go viral", "word of mouth", "shareable content", "social currency", "why people share", "referral program", "nobody is sharing it", or "make this spread". Also trigger when designing shareable features, crafting social campaigns, or building products that spread through peer recommendation. Covers environmental triggers and high-arousal emotional content. For sticky messaging, see made-to-stick. For persuasion tactics, see influence-psychology.

From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.

Sections in SKILL.md

• Core Principle
• Scoring
• STEPPS Overview
• The STEPPS Framework
• 1. Social Currency
• 2. Triggers
• 3. Emotion
• 4. Public
• 5. Practical Value
• 6. Stories
• Engineering Word of Mouth
• Product Launch
• Content Strategy
• Feature Design
• Common Mistakes
• Quick Diagnostic

Files in the skill folder

• SKILL.md
• references/case-studies.md
• references/emotion.md
• references/practical-value.md
• references/public-visibility.md
• references/social-currency.md
• references/stories-trojan-horse.md
• references/triggers.md
• references/viral-content-patterns.md
• references/word-of-mouth.md

Suede Skill Check: 81/100 · B

contagious passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

Where this skill is cited

wondelai/skills appears in 2 curated lists: BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills, karanb192/awesome-claude-skills.

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