cold-email-kickoff

cold-email-kickoff is a skill for Claude Code from AlexisMarasigan/coldoutboundskills. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,950 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cold-email-kickoff, MIT.

A guided starting workflow for launching a cold-email campaign, which means sending targeted introductory emails to potential customers. It asks about sending setup first, then creates a customer profile, free-offer ideas, campaign ideas, and a combined plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding a new business or starting a new cold-email campaign, especially when you need a campaign plan and clear next steps.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork of choosing which campaign tasks to do first and exposes missing email infrastructure before planning begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the coldoutboundskills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when onboarding a new business or starting a new cold-email campaign, especially when you need a campaign plan and clear next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexismarasigan/coldoutboundskills/cold-email-kickoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AlexisMarasigan/coldoutboundskills --skill cold-email-kickoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlexisMarasigan/coldoutboundskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coldoutboundskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,950 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00097 $0.01950
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00195

Measured 11d ago against content hash ff97d030fa3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-email-kickoff 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cold-email-kickoff — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cold-email-kickoff/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email Kickoff

The single entry point for a fresh user. Replaces "stare at 29 skills and guess which to run first."

When to use

  • First-time cold email operator on this repo
  • New client/business being onboarded (fresh profiles/<slug>/ directory)
  • Experienced operator starting a new campaign for a new business
  • Anyone who asks "where do I start?"

What this skill produces

  • A populated profiles/<business-slug>/client-profile.yaml (from /icp-onboarding)
  • A profiles/<business-slug>/lead-magnets.md with the chosen free offer
  • A profiles/<business-slug>/campaign-strategy.md with 15-25 campaign ideas
  • A consolidated profiles/<business-slug>/campaign-plan.md — a single-page summary you can show stakeholders
  • An interactive menu pointing at the right next skill based on your infrastructure status

Flow

Step 1 (asked FIRST): Infrastructure status

Before touching any business context, ask:

  1. "Do you already have sending domains + inboxes set up on Smartlead?" (yes / no / not sure)
  2. "At least 20 inboxes that have been warming for 2+ weeks?" (yes / no)
  3. "Do you have API keys for Smartlead + Prospeo + MillionVerifier in your .env?" (yes / partial / no)

These answers determine the next-step menu at Step 6. Save them as infrastructure_status in the profile.

Step 2: Load or create the business profile

Check for profiles/<business-slug>/client-profile.yaml:

  • Exists → load it. Ask: "Use this existing profile (answer: use) or start fresh (answer: new)?"
  • Doesn't exist → invoke /icp-onboarding. This scrapes the user's website first, then interviews them. Produces the profile.

Step 3: Ensure lead magnet is chosen

Check the loaded/created profile for a lead_magnet field:

  • Empty → invoke /lead-magnet-brainstorm. It asks 4 intake questions, scores 10 magnet archetypes, picks a top 2-3, updates the profile.
  • Already set → confirm with the user: "Using <chosen magnet> as your free offer. OK?" — if they want to change it, re-invoke /lead-magnet-brainstorm.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 174 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A ff97d030fa3f

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cold-email-kickoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlexisMarasigan/coldoutboundskills (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,950 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cold-email-kickoff, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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