cold-email-reply-scoring

cold-email-reply-scoring is a skill for Claude Code from cmj-hub/claude-cold-email. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule-based tool that sorts replies to unsolicited business emails into four groups: likely buying interest, positive interest, neutral, or not interested. It also gives a confidence score and suggested routing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify replies, find requests for calls or prices, identify interested prospects, and route messages according to configured follow-up rules.
Why use it?
It makes reply handling more consistent and reduces the need to judge every response manually. Clear categories help separate sales opportunities from follow-ups and rejections.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is python3 ../../scripts/score_reply.py --batch replies.jsonl --format json | jq.

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

Good fit Use it to classify replies, find requests for calls or prices, identify interested prospects, and route messages according to configured follow-up rules.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cmj-hub/claude-cold-email/cold-email-reply-scoring

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 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,566 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 $0.00094 $0.01566
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00157

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92211bfd7491, 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-reply-scoring 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 2d 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-reply-scoring/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 Reply Scoring — deterministic reply classifier

Real classifier, not vibes. Backed by scripts/score_reply.py for deterministic categorization. The output is a category + confidence

  • recommended routing action.

Activation

Loaded by:

  • cold-email-weekly-rhythm — Wednesday + Friday reply triage
  • User invocation: "Score this reply", "Classify this response"

Output categories

The classifier returns one of 4 categories with a confidence score:

Category Signal Routing (per brand-config)
buy-signal Explicit ask to talk, calendar request, price question, decision-maker tag brand-config.operations.reply_routing.buy_signal
positive Curious, asking follow-up Qs, expressing interest, asking for proof positive
neutral "Not now", "circle back later", "send more info" without commitment neutral (often → nurture stream)
not-interested Explicit no, unsubscribe ask, hostile, out-of-office on repeat not-interested

Feature set (what the classifier uses)

Pure feature engineering — no LLM, no vendor APIs:

  1. Intent keywords — regex over 50+ patterns per category

    • buy-signal: "send the calendar", "what's the price", "demo", "case study", "intro"
    • positive: "tell me more", "interesting", "curious", "send the deck"
    • neutral: "not the right time", "Q4", "send more info", "in a few months"
    • not-interested: "unsubscribe", "stop emailing", "not a fit", "no thanks"
  2. Time-to-reply — minutes since send

    • <15 min after send → likely auto-reply (out-of-office, etc.)
    • <60 min → high-intent (operator was working, saw it, replied immediately)
    • 60 min - 24h → engaged reply
    • 24h → background reply

  3. Reply length — chars

    • <20 chars → 1-word answer, usually not-interested or short positive
    • 20-200 → typical engaged reply
    • 200 → often a substantive response (rare; high-signal)

  4. Question count — # of "?" in the body

    • 0 → declarative (could be any category)
    • 1-2 → engaged with specific questions
    • 3+ → either highly engaged or asking-for-everything (lower convert)

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 2d ago Changed · -1 lines 92211bfd7491
  2. 10d ago First seen · 175 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 72c1a45041e5

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cold-email-reply-scoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository cmj-hub/claude-cold-email (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,566 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.