alvaldes/launch-skills

Skills for AI coding agents that launch a new tool everywhere it belongs: the asset kit, cross-posts of your blog post, curated GitHub lists, app directories, community drafts and a tracker of where it is published.
They stop before every public action. Your agent fills the forms, opens the drafts and prepares the pull requests; you press publish.
Built while launching JUMP, a macOS app, on more than a dozen channels in three days. The story behind them: I turned a product launch into Claude skills.
## The skills
| Skill | What it does | How |
| launch-kit | Gathers names, taglines, descriptions and the comparison from your project, and generates every image size the channels ask for | make-assets.sh (ImageMagick) |
| launch-cross-post | Republishes your blog post on Dev.to, Hashnode and Medium as drafts, with the canonical link back to your site | prepare-article.py |
| launch-lists | Adds the tool to curated GitHub lists (awesome-mac, open-source-mac-os-apps, other awesome lists), one PR each | insert-list-line.py, add-json-entry.py |
| launch-directories | Fills directory and newsletter forms: AlternativeTo, MacUpdate, Indie Hackers, AppAddict, iOS Dev Weekly | Browser automation |
| launch-community-drafts | Drafts posts for r/macapps, Show HN, Product Hunt, LinkedIn, X and Threads, checked against each channel's rules | check-draft.py |
| launch-tracker | Keeps one table of every channel, its status and its link | Markdown |
references/channels.md holds what each channel requires, from account gates (karma, cooldowns) to image sizes, as read on each site in October 2026.
## Install
### Claude Code
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/plugin marketplace add alvaldes/launch-skills
/plugin install launch-skills@launch-skills
### Other agents
Copy the folders in skills/ to wherever your agent reads skills (for example ~/.claude/skills/), together with references/, which the skills link to as ../../references/.
## Use
Ask in plain words, from the project you are launching:
"Prepare the launch kit for this app."
"Cross-post my blog post about it to Dev.to and Hashnode."
"Add it to awesome-mac and open-source-mac-os-apps."
"Draft the Show HN and the r/macapps post."
"What is left to publish?"
Everything for one launch lives in your project under docs/launch/ /: kit.md, assets/, drafts/ and tracker.md.
## What they will not do
Press publish, submit, schedule or merge without your yes for that action.
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