email-deliverability-security

email-deliverability-security is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (3,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to authenticating email sent from a domain using DNS records and related standards. SPF lists allowed senders, DKIM signs messages, and DMARC tells receiving mail systems how to handle failed checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up or improving SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, ARC, and BIMI when launching email, investigating spoofing, or fixing delivery problems.
Why use it?
It helps legitimate messages avoid spam folders and makes it harder for attackers to send mail pretending to use your domain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Setting up or improving SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, ARC, and BIMI when launching email, investigating spoofing, or fixing delivery problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goldenwing-360/claude-security-skills/email-deliverability-security
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills --skill email-deliverability-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,000 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 $0.00085 $0.03000
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01500
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00600
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00300

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0bfecdbdd051, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-deliverability-security 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 12d 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.

email-deliverability-security/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email Authentication & Deliverability Security

Email security has two faces — inbound (don't get phished) and outbound (don't get spoofed, don't land in spam). This skill is about the outbound posture: configuring SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and friends so your real mail authenticates and impostors are rejected.

Done right, this is a one-evening project per domain that pays off forever. Done wrong, your password reset emails land in junk and attackers send invoices to your customers from [email protected].

When to invoke

  • Launching a new sending domain
  • Your domain is being spoofed (you see bounce reports for mail you didn't send)
  • Transactional mail (password reset, receipts) consistently lands in spam
  • Consolidating from multiple ESPs to one
  • An auditor asks about your DMARC posture
  • After a phishing wave that abused your domain

The pieces — what each record does

Record Purpose Required?
SPF Lists which servers are allowed to send for the domain Yes
DKIM Signs each message with a key in DNS; receiver verifies signature Yes
DMARC Tells receivers what to do when SPF or DKIM fails, and where to send reports Yes
MTA-STS Forces TLS between sending and receiving MTAs Recommended
TLS-RPT Receives reports of TLS failures Recommended
BIMI Shows your brand logo in supporting mail clients Optional, requires DMARC enforcement + VMC
ARC Preserves auth state when mail passes through forwarders (mailing lists) Receiver-side mostly, set up if you forward

A "fully authenticated" sending posture needs at least SPF + DKIM + DMARC with a real policy.

Step 1 — SPF

SPF lists every IP / hostname / third-party allowed to send from your domain.

v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:sendgrid.net -all

Key rules:

  • -all (hard fail) is the goal. ~all (soft fail) is acceptable as a stepping stone but eventually move to -all.
  • 10 DNS lookup limit. Every include: and a and mx mechanism counts. Many ESPs publish records that chain dozens of include: and silently push you over the limit. Use dmarcian's SPF surveyor to count.
  • Flatten if needed: services like mxtoolbox, spfwizard, or your own automation can resolve the chain to IPs once and produce a flat record. Refresh periodically — the providers change theirs.
  • One SPF record per domain. Multiple TXT records starting with v=spf1 is a permanent fail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 12d ago First seen · 245 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 0bfecdbdd051

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email-deliverability-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository GoldenWing-360/claude-security-skills (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 3,000 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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