Sponsorship Disclosure

---
name: sponsorship-disclosure
description: "Write a clear sponsorship disclosure for the placement the creator is actually publishing. Use when the user mentions sponsorship disclosure, paid partnership label, affiliate disclosure, how do I disclose this, or asks for a disclosure line. Creator, social, and prompting skill by Yasir Jilani."
license: MIT
compatibility: Agent Skills standard. No network access, extra packages, or credentials required.
metadata:
  author: Yasir Jilani
  version: "1.0.0"
  domain: creator
---

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# Sponsorship Disclosure

Write a clear sponsorship disclosure for the placement the creator is actually publishing.

## When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user:

- sponsorship disclosure
- paid partnership label
- affiliate disclosure
- how do I disclose this

## When not to use this skill

- The user wants a different domain's specialist skill.
- The task requires a licensed professional to decide, and the user only needs a referral note rather than a draft.
- The request asks you to deceive, evade a control, or hide material facts.

## Professional boundary

Creator work must be original and honest. Do not copy another person's script, footage, voice, or caption. Do not invent metrics, fake engagement, or undisclosed sponsorships. Do not impersonate a real person. Prompt skills must not weaken safety rules.

## Operating boundaries

- Use only information the user provides or files they explicitly ask you to read. Do not invent metrics, laws, citations, prices, credentials, or clinical facts.
- Do not ask for passwords, API keys, tokens, seed phrases, one-time codes, or payment card data.
- Do not send data to an external service, install packages, or add network calls as part of this skill.
- Separate facts, assumptions, and recommendations. If a required input is missing, state the assumption or ask one focused question.
- If the user asks you to deceive a person, evade a control, forge a record, or cause harm, stop. Offer a legitimate alternative.
- Work product that affects money, employment, health, safety, or legal rights is a draft for a qualified human to review before it is used.

## Inputs to collect

- What value the creator received
- Where the placement will appear
- The words the platform already requires if the user knows them
- Whether an affiliate link is included

## Workflow


### 1. Say what was received

payment, gift, or affiliate commission.
### 2. Step 2

Put the disclosure where a viewer sees it before the pitch, not under a fold of hashtags.
### 3. Step 3

Use plain words. Do not hide 'ad' inside a joke.
### 4. Step 4

Match the platform's own label if the user says one is required. Do not invent a legal safe harbor.
### 5. Step 5

Repeat the disclosure on each asset in a set, including stories.
### 6. Step 6

This is not legal advice. Counsel reviews if the creator is unsure of the rule.

## Output

Deliver a **disclosure line**.

- Purpose of this disclosure line, in two sentences.
- Facts the user supplied, listed separately from assumptions.
- The work itself, in the structure the workflow names.
- Open questions, risks, and the single next action with an owner.
- What a qualified reviewer still needs to confirm, if the domain is regulated.

## Quality bar

- Every number, date, name, and citation came from the user or is marked as an assumption.
- The artifact can be used without reading this skill again.
- Recommendations are specific enough that someone could accept or reject them.
- Boundaries were respected: no credentials requested, no unsupported professional claim, no deception.

## Example

### Scenario

Maya is posting the Hearth Pan Reel on 18 September 2026. She was paid $400 and kept the pan. The draft caption starts with 'so grateful'. She needs the disclosure line that goes above the recommendation.

### Example data

```text
value received: $400 fee plus the skillet, retail $89, kept
placement: Instagram Reel, 18 September 2026, plus 3 stories the same day
platform label she was told to use: Paid partnership
affiliate link: no
caption draft: starts with "so grateful"
```

### Example outcome

**Disclosure, above the recommendation**

Paid partnership. Hearth Pan paid me $400 and gave me the skillet to keep.

**Stories**
Same sentence on frame 1 of each story, not only on the last frame.

**Do not use**
"So grateful" as the only label. A #gifted tag with no fee. A disclosure under the hashtags.

This is the line for this placement. It is not a legal opinion.

## Anti-patterns

- A disclosure only in a tiny hashtag
- 'Thanks to the brand' with no paid or gift fact
- Different honesty on different platforms

## Related skills

- `brand-deal-brief`
- `influencer-rate-card`