lifecycle-messaging

lifecycle-messaging is a skill for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,184 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for sending transactional and marketing email or SMS responsibly. It covers provider choice, domain authentication, consent, unsubscribe handling, and keeping different message types separate.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps design booking reminders, receipts, password resets, newsletters, promotions, and win-back messages with suitable providers and sending domains.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that messages fail to arrive or are sent without the required permission, damaging delivery or creating compliance problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps design booking reminders, receipts, password resets, newsletters, promotions, and win-back messages with suitable providers and sending domains.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avelikiy/great_cto/lifecycle-messaging
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 avelikiy/great_cto --skill lifecycle-messaging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,184 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 19
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00132 $0.01184
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00592
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00118

Measured 5d ago against content hash 96a3bb3de33c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lifecycle-messaging 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 5d 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.

skills/lifecycle-messaging/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lifecycle messaging — deliverable, consented, compliant

Messages that don't arrive (poor deliverability) or that arrive without consent (TCPA/ CAN-SPAM violations) are both fatal for an SMB product. This skill makes both correct by construction. Design the consent + deliverability posture before the first send.

1. Transactional vs marketing — split them

Decide per message which bucket it is; they have different rules and should use different sending identities (often different subdomains / providers):

Transactional Marketing / lifecycle
Examples receipt, booking confirm/reminder, password reset win-back, promo, newsletter, nurture step
Consent implied by the transaction explicit opt-in required
Unsubscribe not required (but honor STOP) required, one-click, honored fast
Sending domain txn. subdomain mail./news. subdomain

Never send marketing content on the transactional channel "because it delivers better" — that's how the transactional domain gets burned.

2. Provider selection (pick one, justify it)

  • Email — Postmark (best transactional deliverability, strict on marketing), Resend (DX-first, good default), SendGrid (scale). Default: Resend for transactional, add a marketing-grade ESP only when lifecycle volume justifies it.
  • SMS — Twilio (messaging service + sender pool), or Telnyx. Use a Messaging Service, not a single number, for scale + failover. A2P 10DLC registration is required for US application-to-person SMS — register the brand/campaign before sending.

3. Domain authentication (non-negotiable for email)

  • SPF — sender IP authorized in DNS.
  • DKIM — provider signing key published; messages signed.
  • DMARC — start p=none with rua reporting, ramp to p=quarantinep=reject once aligned. Without DMARC alignment, lifecycle mail lands in spam.
  • Warm up a new sending domain gradually; never blast from a cold domain.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 5d ago First seen · 100 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 96a3bb3de33c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lifecycle-messaging is a skill published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (89 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,184 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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