Affiliaterail Skill

AffiliateRail skill for Claude

A Claude skill for running a SaaS affiliate program: choosing commission rates, writing program terms, recruiting and activating affiliates, spotting fraud, and the payout side that most guidance skips, including W-9 and W-8BEN collection, the 1099 reporting threshold, VAT and partner invoices, and how you actually pay a person in another country.

It works in two modes.

**Knowledge mode** works for anyone, with no account and no connection. It is the reference material in `references/`, written from primary sources with the figure and its date kept beside each claim.

**Connected mode** works for AffiliateRail customers who have connected the MCP server. Claude can then read the merchant's own program and answer questions no static skill can: which affiliates went quiet, who should be paid this month, why a commission was rejected, whether the program is healthy.

The safety property

An agent holding an AffiliateRail token cannot move money, because we never hold any. Payouts run through the merchant's own PayPal, Wise or Payoneer credentials, which are encrypted per program and never handed to a model. A custodial platform cannot offer that without rebuilding itself.

Install

**Claude Code**

git clone https://github.com/jimibarkway/affiliaterail-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/affiliaterail-affiliate-programs

**Claude desktop and web**

Download the packaged zip and add it as a skill:

• Latest: https://docs.affiliaterail.com/skill/affiliaterail-skill-latest.zip
• Pinned: https://docs.affiliaterail.com/skill/affiliaterail-skill-v.zip

**Connected mode** additionally needs the MCP server at https://mcp.affiliaterail.com, which signs in with OAuth. Setup is at https://docs.affiliaterail.com/mcp.

What is in here

Path	What it holds
SKILL.md	The instructions themselves: mode detection, the tool composition table, the hallucination rule, the write-safety rule, and worked examples