email-drafting

email-drafting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,751 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for creating cold emails, which are unsolicited sales emails sent to potential customers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps draft subject lines, individual emails, and multi-email sequences with different levels of personalization.
Why use it?
It gives structure to outreach messages so the writer can account for the audience, their problems, likely objections, and the reason for contacting them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps draft subject lines, individual emails, and multi-email sequences with different levels of personalization.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/email-drafting
About the project

Goose Skills is a library of workflows and data APIs that lets coding agents handle growth and go-to-market work such as advertising, social media, content, SEO, lead generation, and customer research. It is intended for teams using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar agents. The catalogue entries are its reusable skills.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,201 stars · on GitHub · gooseworks.ai

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 gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill email-drafting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,751 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.03751
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01876
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00375

Measured 8d ago against content hash 38eb9fdca792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-drafting 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/outreach/capabilities/email-drafting/SKILL.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email Drafting

Pure reasoning skill for writing cold emails. No scripts, no tools — just frameworks, patterns, and examples from real campaigns that consistently generate replies.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • User says "write a cold email", "draft outreach", "help me with email copy", "write a sequence"
  • Any task requires cold email copy — subject lines, full sequences, or individual emails

Phase 0: Intake

Collect campaign context before writing anything. Ask all questions at once, organized by category. Skip any the user has already answered.

Campaign Context

  1. What product/service are you selling?
  2. What problem does it solve? Who feels this pain most acutely?
  3. What's the campaign angle? (hiring signal, competitor displacement, pain-based, event-triggered, etc.)
  4. Is there a specific signal or trigger? (job posting, G2 review, LinkedIn engagement, funding round, etc.)

Audience

  1. Who is the recipient? (title, seniority, department)
  2. What keeps them up at night? (daily frustrations relevant to your product)
  3. What objections will they have? (budget, switching cost, "we already have X", timing)

Proof & Credibility

  1. What social proof do you have? (customer logos, case studies, metrics)
  2. Name 2-3 peer companies the recipient would recognize as similar to them
  3. Any hard metrics? (cost savings, speed improvement, % lift)

Tone & Style

  1. What tone fits? (casual-direct, professional-sharp, provocative, empathetic)
  2. Who is the sender? (founder, AE, SDR — this affects voice)
  3. Any brand guidelines or words to avoid?

Sequence

  1. How many touches? (default: 3)
  2. What's the desired CTA? (call, demo, reply, resource download)
  3. Email-only or multi-channel? (email + LinkedIn, email + phone)

Phase 1: Draft Emails

Email Structure Formula

Every cold email follows this skeleton:

Hook (1 sentence) → Evidence (1-2 sentences) → Offer (1 sentence)

Word count targets:

  • Cold intro (Touch 1): 50-90 words
  • Follow-up (Touch 2-3): 30-50 words
  • Breakup (final touch): 20-40 words

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 361 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 38eb9fdca792

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email-drafting is a skill published in the GitHub repository gooseworks-ai/goose-skills (1,201 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,751 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.