cold-email-kickoff

cold-email-kickoff is a skill for Claude Code from cmj-hub/claude-cold-email. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided starting point for setting up cold-email work, where cold email means unsolicited business messages sent to potential customers. It checks the project's current setup and chooses the next step in the sequence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting or continuing a cold-email process by checking brand details, positioning, sending infrastructure, deliverability checks, campaign history, and reply handling.
Why use it?
It prevents someone from starting with the wrong task or overlooking essentials such as the target customer, message, sending setup, or first campaign.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cold-email plugin — 12 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Starting or continuing a cold-email process by checking brand details, positioning, sending infrastructure, deliverability checks, campaign history, and reply handling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email/cold-email-kickoff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cold-email, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,414 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 $0.00099 $0.01414
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00141

Measured 3d ago against content hash 41b24cd320c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 3d 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-kickoff/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email Kickoff — adaptive router

State-aware router. Operators don't ship cold email on day 1 — they go through a sequence: ICP → PSP → EVP → infrastructure → first send → reply triage → iterate. Kickoff detects where the operator is in that sequence and picks the right next step.

Activation

Loaded by cold-email on:

  • Bare /cold-email invocation (no other intent)
  • "Where do I start"
  • "What should I do next"
  • "I'm new — what's the path"
  • "Onboard me"

State detection

Before recommending, kickoff checks the project state:

# Pseudo-code
state = {
    "has_brand_config":   file_exists("brand-config.json"),
    "has_soul":           file_exists("SOUL.md"),
    "has_psp":            "psp" in brand_config and brand_config.psp.primary_pain != "",
    "has_evp":            "evp" in brand_config and brand_config.evp.primary != "",
    "has_infrastructure": "infrastructure" in brand_config and brand_config.infrastructure.sending_domain != "",
    "deliverability_audited_recently": days_since(brand_config.infrastructure.deliverability_last_audited) < 30,
    "first_send_logged":  has_entries(brand_config.operations.experiment_log_path),
    "reply_data_available": has_logged_replies(brand_config.operations.experiment_log_path)
}

Map state to the next-best step:

State condition Route to
!has_brand_config OR !has_soul cold-email-onboarding
has_brand_config AND !has_psp "Install cmj-hub/claude-psp first; let me know when PSP is done"
has_psp AND !has_evp "Install cmj-hub/claude-evp first; let me know when EVP is done"
has_evp AND !has_infrastructure "Let's set up infrastructure. Run cold-email-deliverability for a baseline audit."
has_infrastructure AND !deliverability_audited_recently "Deliverability hasn't been re-audited in 30+ days. Run cold-email-deliverability first."
deliverability_audited_recently AND !first_send_logged "Ready to ship. Want to draft your first sequence via cold-email-craft?"
first_send_logged AND !reply_data_available "First sequence shipped. Set up reply routing — see cold-email-reply-scoring."
reply_data_available "You've got data. Run cold-email-audit to score the program + cold-email-weekly-rhythm for the cadence going forward."

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 3d ago Changed · -1 lines 41b24cd320c8
  2. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 335171708240

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cold-email-kickoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository cmj-hub/claude-cold-email (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,414 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.