josh-braun-copywriting

josh-braun-copywriting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Frontal-so/outbound-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (484 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of josh-braun-copywriting, MIT.

A set of principles for writing concise, specific cold emails and personalizing them for each recipient. Cold email means contacting someone who has not asked to hear from you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or reviewing sales emails using specific details, relevant research, personality, and a focus on what the recipient may lose by doing nothing.
Why use it?
It helps remove unnecessary words, generic compliments, and vague claims that make outreach feel impersonal or unbelievable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Writing or reviewing sales emails using specific details, relevant research, personality, and a focus on what the recipient may lose by doing nothing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frontal-so/outbound-skills/josh-braun-copywriting
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Frontal-so/outbound-skills --skill josh-braun-copywriting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Frontal-so/outbound-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 484 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.00484
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00242
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 8d ago against content hash 93895ad9f1e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

josh-braun-copywriting 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to josh-braun-copywriting — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/josh-braun-copywriting/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Josh Braun Writing Principles

The 5 Principles

  1. Write with an eraser - Remove every unnecessary word
  2. Be cheeky - Personality matters, make them smile
  3. Be specific - Credibility comes through precision
  4. Don't say "we reduce costs" - Say "e-commerce companies doing $5k/month overpaying 10-15%"
  5. Use loss aversion - Frame around what they're losing, not gaining

Personalization Best Practices

DO:

  • Custom prompts based on research
  • Facts prospects consistently care about
  • Time business was founded (owners proud of longevity)
  • Recent company news/changes
  • Tech stack signals

DON'T:

  • Generic AI compliments ("Love your work!")
  • Content that sounds same as what they already have
  • Over-personalization that feels creepy
  • Complimenting LinkedIn posts without substance

Key Takeaways

  • Specificity = Credibility: "47% increase" beats "significant improvement"
  • Loss > Gain: People act more to avoid loss than to gain
  • Every word must earn its place: If it doesn't add value, delete it
  • Personality differentiates: Be human, not corporate

Combines with

Skill Why
email-writing-frameworks Apply principles to any framework
personalization-hooks Create hooks that don't feel generic
sdr-outbound-rules Quality checklist alignment
cold-email-templates-34 Review templates against principles

Example prompts

Review this email using Josh Braun's 5 principles and suggest improvements.
Rewrite this email to be more specific and use loss aversion.
Make this email "cheeky" without being unprofessional.

Part of Frontal — free, open GTM skills for your AI agent. Browse the library →

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 · 71 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 93895ad9f1e9

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josh-braun-copywriting is a skill published in the GitHub repository Frontal-so/outbound-skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 484 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to josh-braun-copywriting, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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