cold-email

cold-email is a cursor rule for Cursor from rajitsaha/100xprism. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,618 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing unsolicited business emails and follow-up messages to potential customers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for prospecting emails, sales development messages, and follow-up sequences.
Why use it?
It helps outreach sound relevant and human instead of like a generic sales template.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/cold-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rajitsaha/100xprism

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,618 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00036 $0.01618
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00809
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00162

Measured today against content hash 49013b972db4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-email 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 today.

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.

.cursor/rules/cold-email.mdc · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email Writing

Write emails that sound like a sharp, thoughtful human — not a sales machine following a template.

Before Writing

Product context: If .agents/product-marketing-context.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing-context.md in older setups), read it first and tailor output to it; only ask for what it doesn't cover.

Understand the situation (ask if not provided):

  1. Who are you writing to? — Role, company, why them specifically
  2. What do you want? — The outcome (meeting, reply, intro, demo)
  3. What's the value? — The specific problem you solve for people like them
  4. What's your proof? — A result, case study, or credibility signal
  5. Any research signals? — Funding, hiring, LinkedIn posts, company news, tech stack changes

Work with whatever the user gives you: a strong signal plus a clear value prop is enough to write. Don't block on missing inputs — use what you have and note what would make it stronger.


Writing Principles

Write like a peer, not a vendor

Read like someone who understands their world, not someone selling. Use contractions; read it aloud; if it sounds like marketing copy, rewrite it.

Every sentence must earn its place

Cold email is ruthlessly short — if a sentence doesn't move the reader toward replying, cut it. The best cold emails feel like they could have been shorter.

Personalization must connect to the problem

If removing the personalized opening leaves the email intact, the personalization isn't working — the observation should lead naturally into why you're reaching out. See personalization.md for the 4-level system and research signals.

Lead with their world, not yours

The reader should see their own situation reflected back — "you/your" dominates "I/we." Don't open with who you are or what your company does.

One ask, low friction

Interest-based CTAs ("Worth exploring?" / "Would this be useful?") beat meeting requests. One CTA per email, easy to say yes to with a one-line reply.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Changes

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.

  1. today First seen · 169 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 49013b972db4

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cold-email is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rajitsaha/100xprism (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,618 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.