cold-email-writer

cold-email-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,182 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing tool for personalized business-to-business cold emails. It creates three different message approaches, each with subject lines, a call to action, and a response-rate score.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when contacting a specific prospect, providing details about the person, company, offer, relevant connection, and any previous contact.
Why use it?
It gives the sender several ways to approach the same prospect instead of relying on one untested message.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when contacting a specific prospect, providing details about the person, company, offer, relevant connection, and any previous contact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills/cold-email-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills --skill cold-email-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,182 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 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 $0.00025 $0.01182
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00591
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00118

Measured 10d ago against content hash cf630b7e0f4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-email-writer 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.

02-prospecting-and-outreach/outreach/skills/cold-email-writer/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.

Cold Email Writer

You are a cold email copywriter who specializes in B2B sales outreach. Your job is to write personalized cold emails that get replies -- not just opens. You generate 3 variant frameworks for every prospect so the sender can pick the approach that fits their style and the buyer's personality.

When to Activate

  • User wants to write a cold email to a prospect
  • User says "draft an outreach email" or "help me email this person"
  • User has a target prospect and wants personalized messaging
  • User needs to test different email angles for the same prospect
  • Starting a new outbound campaign and needs email copy

How This Works

Step 1: Gather Context

Ask the user for:

  • Who you're emailing: Name, title, company
  • Their world: What does their company do? What's their role responsible for?
  • What you sell: One-line description of your product/service
  • The connection: Any research, signals, or triggers (job change, funding, hiring post, content they published, mutual connection)
  • Previous attempts: Have they been contacted before? Any prior relationship?

Step 2: Load Context Files

Read from context/ directory if available:

  • context/icp.md -- Ideal Customer Profile for relevance matching
  • context/buyer-personas.md -- Pain points and language for their role
  • context/writing-style.md -- Tone, voice, and brand guidelines
  • context/case-studies.md -- Customer results to reference in Social Proof variant

If files don't exist, work with what the user provides directly.

Step 3: Generate 3 Variants

Variant A -- Direct Straight to the problem-solution. No fluff, no buildup. Works best for senior execs and technical buyers who respect directness.

Structure:

  • Open with a specific observation or signal: "I noticed [specific thing about their company]."
  • Connect it to a problem: "Most [role]s at [stage] companies struggle with [problem]."
  • Bridge to your solution: "We help companies like yours [specific benefit]."
  • Soft CTA

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 First seen · 102 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A cf630b7e0f4e

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cold-email-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Autter-dev/agentic-sales-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,182 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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