design-for-email

design-for-email is a skill for Claude Code from Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste. It costs 18 tokens per session (312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing HTML emails that work across services such as Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Yahoo.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose compatible layouts, inline styles, accessible images and buttons, and test emails on different clients and devices.
Why use it?
Email apps support different layout and styling features, so a design that works in a browser may break in an inbox.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the edt plugin — 117 skills, 80 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose compatible layouts, inline styles, accessible images and buttons, and test emails on different clients and devices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dragoon0x/everything-design-taste/design-for-email
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 Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste --skill design-for-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install edt, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 117 skills, 80 agents.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 312 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 $0.00018 $0.00312
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 8d ago against content hash f2292e3347da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-for-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 8d 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/design-for-email/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Design for Email

Technical Constraints

  • Use tables for layout (flexbox/grid not supported)
  • Inline CSS (many clients strip <style> tags)
  • Max width: 600px
  • No JavaScript
  • No video (use GIF or static image with play button)
  • Background images: limited support (use bgcolor fallback)

Client-Specific Issues

Client Major Issue
Outlook (Windows) Uses Word rendering engine. Tables only.
Gmail Strips <style> in non-Google-account views
Apple Mail Most capable, supports most CSS
Yahoo Strips some CSS, adds its own

Design Rules

  1. Single column layout (reliable everywhere)
  2. System fonts + web-safe fallbacks
  3. Button: use a padded table cell with background color (not CSS button)
  4. Images: always set width, provide alt text
  5. Dark mode: test appearance, some clients auto-invert
  6. Preview text: first 80-100 characters visible in inbox

Testing

  • Test in: Gmail (web), Outlook (desktop), Apple Mail, mobile Gmail, mobile Mail
  • Tools: Litmus, Email on Acid
  • Send test emails to yourself on multiple devices
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. 8d ago First seen · 37 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A f2292e3347da

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design-for-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/everything-design-taste (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 312 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 2026-09-03.

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