How to use the Affiliate Disclosure Checker agent skill

What does the affiliate-disclosure skill make the agent do?

An agent skill is a folder of instructions that an AI agent (such as Claude) loads so it knows how to handle a specific task. This one is for checking affiliate and sponsored content. The skill's main rule is that a disclosure should be clear, conspicuous, and placed at the top of the page, before any affiliate links appear.

When it runs, the agent checks that pages with affiliate or sponsored links show a visible disclosure before those links. It suggests simple, unambiguous wording to explain the financial relationship. It also reviews rendered HTML, metadata, structured data, and HTTP response headers, so you can confirm what users and search engines actually see rather than relying only on source files.

• Checks that a visible disclosure appears before affiliate or sponsored links
• Suggests a standard disclosure statement to add at the start of content or near the links
• Reviews rendered HTML and HTTP responses for search-facing output
• Flags exact routes or templates where the output appears to break the rule

Install the affiliate-disclosure skill

Download the ZIP for the affiliate-disclosure skill from our page. Then install it using one of the two methods below.

For Claude Code, unzip the download into ~/.claude/skills/ to make it available to you across projects, or into a project's .claude/skills/ folder to limit it to that project. The skill folder should contain SKILL.md and references/rule.md.

In the Claude apps, you can instead upload the ZIP under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.

• Personal install: unzip into ~/.claude/skills/
• Project install: unzip into the project's .claude/skills/ folder
• Claude apps: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, then upload the ZIP

Trigger the skill with a natural request

You don't need a special command. The skill's description tells the agent when to use it, so describe the task in plain language and point the agent at the pages or templates you want checked. The phrasings below are examples of the kind of request that fits this skill, not required wording.

Be specific about scope. Naming a template, a route, or a page gives the agent something concrete to check. If you want the agent to check the final output, ask it to review the rendered HTML and response, since the skill is written to do that.

• Check whether my product review pages disclose affiliate links before the links appear.
• Review our article template for clear affiliate or sponsored disclosures.
• Suggest standard disclosure wording for this page, which has Amazon affiliate links.
• Look at the rendered HTML of this post and tell me if the disclosure is visible above the first affiliate link.

Example: a disclosure block at the top of a post

The rule's reference file includes an example of a disclosure placed in the page header, directly under the title and before the body content. The disclosure is styled as a small, shaded block so it is visible but not intrusive.

Use this as a model for your own wording. Keep the language plain and say what the financial relationship is.

What the skill needs and how it stays safe

The skill lists no requirements. It does not run scripts and does not use the network, so it works by reading the files and pages you give it. It is a text-based guide, not a scanner that crawls your site on its own.

The skill cites FTC guidelines in general terms. It is not legal advice, so have a lawyer confirm what applies to your jurisdiction and business.

• Requires: nothing listed
• Runs scripts: no
• Uses network: no
• Scope: review only what you provide; it does not crawl sites by itself

Tips for getting useful results

Give the agent the template or rendered page, not just a description of the page. The skill's guidance is to verify what is actually output, so rendered HTML and HTTP responses give better answers than source files alone.

Check that the disclosure appears before the first affiliate link, not only at the bottom of the page. Review each template that outputs affiliate content, since one template can affect many pages.

• Provide rendered HTML or the page's response headers where possible
• Check disclosure placement relative to the first affiliate link
• Review every template that outputs affiliate or sponsored content
• Treat the output as a checklist to review, not a legal verdict