email-sequence-designer

email-sequence-designer is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 197 tokens per session (3,855 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An email-flow planning tool for mapping automated customer messages, such as welcome, abandoned-cart, post-purchase, and business outreach sequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design lifecycle email flows, set message timing and conditions, add purchase exits or discount branches, and plan engagement-decay or sunset paths.
Why use it?
It removes the need to plan triggers, timing, branches, exits, and sending limits separately. It also covers when to reduce or stop messages to unengaged contacts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Emit the standard shape from [skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format](../../../references/skill-contract.md)..

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit Use it to design lifecycle email flows, set message timing and conditions, add purchase exits or discount branches, and plan engagement-decay or sunset paths.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/email-sequence-designer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,855 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 2 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original 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 5.1 $0.00197 $0.03855
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01928
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00771
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00385

Measured 10d ago against content hash c6461154d48b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-sequence-designer 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 10d 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.

email/nurture/email-sequence-designer/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email Sequence Designer

Designs email lifecycle and automation flows plus the program's frequency governance, and scores the SEND N (Nurture / Lifecycle) dimension. It maps each flow's trigger, step timing, branch/exit conditions, and goal, layers a global cadence policy (send caps, quiet hours, fatigue guardrail) and a re-engagement/sunset path over the top, then hands the flow map to the skill that writes each step and to the auditor that scores the full program. It covers general lifecycle flows and owns the engagement-decay/sunset sub-item; the closed-loop win-back / re-consent (re-permission) program on a defined lapsed cohort is reactivation-specialist's, and the preference-center / frequency-options design is preference-frequency-manager's. It does not write the individual email or compute the final EQS.

Quick Start

Design a welcome flow for [product/audience] on [ESP]. Trigger is [signup event]; here is my current list/segment export: [paste/path].
Build an abandoned-cart sequence: [N] steps, [timing], with a discount branch and an exit-on-purchase condition.
My unengaged segment is [X]% of the list and complaints are rising. Design a win-back sequence and a sunset policy with send caps and quiet hours.

Skill Contract

Expected output: a set of lifecycle flow maps (trigger, per-step timing, branch/exit conditions, goal per flow), a frequency-governance block (global send cap, quiet hours, fatigue guardrail), a re-engagement/sunset path, a SEND N dimension score with sub-item notes and the typed profile named, and the standard handoff summary.

  • Reads: the flow type or lifecycle goal, the trigger event, a versioned segment definition (from the user or from list-segment-builder when present), current consent/suppression snapshot refs, the versioned creative/HTML bindings for each step when available, an ESP flow/automation export (own data) and current cadence/complaint signals, and one SEND profile (promotional|retention|cold-outbound|newsletter).
  • Writes: a user-facing flow map + cadence plan and a reusable handoff summary to memory/email/email-sequence-designer/YYYY-MM-DD-<flow-or-goal>.md.
  • Promotes: chosen flow set, cadence/quiet-hours policy, sunset thresholds, the N-dimension score, and missing exports to memory/hot-cache.md and memory/open-loops.md; propose durable cadence/flow decisions as pending-decision items — never write decisions.md directly.
  • Done when: every flow has a trigger, per-step timing, a goal, and explicit branch/exit conditions; each step names the segment-definition version and exact creative/HTML version when available; a global send cap + quiet hours + a fatigue guardrail are specified; a re-engagement/sunset path exists; the SEND N score is emitted; and the output distinguishes local plan, ESP create result, send intent, and real send receipt.
  • Primary next skill: email-creative-builder to write each step, or email-quality-auditor to score the program and enforce N1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago Changed · +2 lines c6461154d48b
  2. 13d ago First seen · 100 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A cb6aeeaf6b91

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email-sequence-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 3,855 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.