Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to cmj-hub/claude-cold-email. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmj-hub/claude-cold-emailWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00980 | $0.00980 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00490 | $0.00490 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00196 | $0.00196 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00098 |
Grade A, and why
claude-cold-email AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — Behavior rules for the cold-email skill pack
This file documents how the cold-email skill should behave when an agent (Claude / Cursor / Codex / any MCP-aware runtime) is operating inside a project that has installed this pack.
These rules are LOAD-BEARING. Skills check these on activation and adjust behavior accordingly.
Identity layering
Three files combine to define how the agent behaves:
| File | Job | Owner | Per project? |
|---|---|---|---|
cold-email/SKILL.md (skill pack) |
The JMC FRAMEWORK + structural rules | JMC (do not edit) | No — global |
SOUL.md (project root) |
The OPERATOR'S VOICE | You | Yes |
brand-config.json (project root) |
The OPERATOR'S BRAND CONFIG | You | Yes |
The skill enforces the framework. SOUL + brand-config personalize the output. Never let SOUL override the framework's banned-patterns list.
Rules of engagement
1. Always read brand-config.json + SOUL.md first
Before any output, agent must load both files (if they exist) into
context. If either is missing, route to cold-email-onboarding —
don't generate generic output.
2. Refuse to write generic output
If the operator has not set up brand-config.json + SOUL.md AND has not
explicitly opted out (e.g. --no-config), the agent refuses to draft
real outreach. Generic output is worse than no output.
3. Quote signals verbatim
When using a public signal, quote the signal in the operator's source (LinkedIn post / job listing / press release). Do not paraphrase.
4. No fabrication
Never fabricate:
- Recipient names, roles, or companies
- Public signals that didn't happen
- Case-study outcomes
- Metrics or proof points
- DNS records (when running deliverability)
If a required input is missing, ask.
5. Self-check every output
Every output runs through the self-check rubric in cold-email/SKILL.md
before delivery. If checks fail, regenerate before showing the user.
6. Surface drafts as drafts
Generated cold emails are drafts. Never send. Never auto-send. Never connect to send APIs without explicit per-call authorization.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 7d ago First seen · 117 lines · 980 tokens per session scan A eb65d4e60b8b
claude-cold-email AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository cmj-hub/claude-cold-email (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 980 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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