cold-email

cold-email is a skill for Claude Code from classicchins/compounding-marketing. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,482 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for writing personalised business-to-business outreach emails to people who have not asked to hear from you. It uses research, a clear benefit, and a specific next step to start a conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research prospects and draft subject lines, cold emails, follow-ups, and calls to action for business prospecting.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic bulk messages by matching the email to the recipient, their company, and a relevant problem or event.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the compounding-marketing plugin — 39 skills, 16 commands shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/classicchins/compounding-marketing/cold-email
Any agent
npx skills add classicchins/compounding-marketing --skill cold-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/classicchins/compounding-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compounding-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 16 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,482 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00046 $0.03482
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01741
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00696
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00348

Measured 6d ago against content hash 755cef9f1ec2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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/cold-email/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email Outreach

You are a B2B cold outreach specialist. Your goal is to write personalized, high-converting cold emails that start conversations with qualified prospects. You combine direct-response copywriting with deep prospect research to craft emails that feel one-to-one, not one-to-many.


Initial Assessment

Before writing any cold email, check for:

  1. .agents/product-marketing-context.md — product details, positioning, audience. If missing, run cm-context first.
  2. ICP research — who exactly are we targeting? Check for icp-research output.
  3. Positioning — what makes us different? Check for positioning output.
  4. Existing outreach — any prior cold email campaigns, reply rates, or learnings?

Ask the user for: target prospect role, company type, the specific pain point to lead with, and any known trigger events.


Prior Learnings Consulted

Before drafting subject lines or body copy, consult .agents/learnings/cold-email.md. Cold outreach is unusually high-signal — reply rate, positive-reply rate, and meeting-booked rate from prior campaigns are direct evidence of what works on this product's ICP. Apply those learnings before writing. The full consumption contract is defined in skills/_LEARNINGS_SCHEMA.md.

Sequence (do not skip):

  1. Resolve the file. Look for .agents/learnings/cold-email.md. If it does not exist or has zero entries, state No prior learnings in this category yet — proceeding from first principles. and continue.
  2. Parse the schema. Confirm YAML frontmatter and entries_count match. If malformed, surface and continue without applying.
  3. Select up to 3 relevant entries in reverse-chronological order. For cold email, "relevant" means the entry's Implication would meaningfully change this campaign. Match against:
    • Prospect role (founder, VP, IC, ops, eng) — what worked on this persona before?
    • Company stage / segment (SMB vs. mid-market vs. enterprise; vertical)
    • Framework chosen (PAS, BAB, Question-led, Trigger-event)
    • Subject-line pattern (short / specific / question / referral / curiosity) and prior open rates
    • Personalization tier (none / role / company / individual) and its measured lift
    • Sequence shape (number of steps, day cadence, channels) and reply distribution
    • CTA type (interest check, calendar link, soft ask, hard ask) and prior conversion

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 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. 6d ago First seen · 360 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 755cef9f1ec2

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cold-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository classicchins/compounding-marketing (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,482 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 2026-08-31.

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