linkedin-message-writer

linkedin-message-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. It costs 109 tokens per session (3,371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A LinkedIn research and message-writing tool for creating personalized connection requests, direct messages, InMails, and comments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps research LinkedIn profiles and posts from LinkedIn URLs, then write messages for different LinkedIn contact types.
Why use it?
It removes the need to research each profile and recent post separately before writing a relevant message.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It helps research LinkedIn profiles and posts from LinkedIn URLs, then write messages for different LinkedIn contact types.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/linkedin-message-writer
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 · 1,202 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 linkedin-message-writer
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 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,371 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 148
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 148
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 172
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 175
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 191
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00109 $0.03371
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01685
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00674
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00337

Measured 9d ago against content hash 38186de06339, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linkedin-message-writer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/harvestapi~linkedin-profile-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_API_TOKEN" \
skills/outreach/capabilities/linkedin-message-writer/SKILL.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LinkedIn Message Writer

Research LinkedIn leads and write personalized messages for any LinkedIn message type. Takes LinkedIn URLs, researches each person using Apify (profile + recent posts), and writes messages based on what it finds.

No LinkedIn cookies. No database setup. Just LinkedIn URLs in, personalized messages out.

When to Auto-Load

Load this skill when:

  • User says "write LinkedIn messages", "LinkedIn outreach", "connect with these leads on LinkedIn", "send LinkedIn messages"
  • User has a list of LinkedIn URLs and wants to reach out
  • User wants to write personalized connection requests, InMails, DMs, or comments

Prerequisites

Apify API Token

Required for researching LinkedIn profiles and posts. Set in .env:

APIFY_API_TOKEN=your_token_here

No LinkedIn cookies, login, or session tokens needed. Apify handles scraping without any LinkedIn credentials.

That's it. One env var. Nothing else.


LinkedIn Message Types Reference

This skill writes any text-based LinkedIn message type. Each type has different constraints.

Message Type Who Can Receive Character Limit When to Use
Connection request 2nd/3rd degree connections 200 (free) / 300 (premium) First touch. Must earn the accept. No selling.
InMail Anyone (requires premium credits) Subject: 200, Body: 1,900 Standalone pitch to people who won't accept cold connections. Senior execs, busy people.
DM 1st-degree connections only 8,000 Follow-ups after connection accepted. Conversational, not broadcast.
Message request Group members, event attendees, #OpenToWork 8,000 Warm context — you share a group or event. Reference the shared context.
Post comment Anyone (public posts) 1,250 Warm-up before connecting. Show you engaged with their content. Not a pitch.
Comment reply Anyone (in a thread) 1,250 Engage in a conversation they started. Add value, don't pitch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 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. 9d ago First seen · 350 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 38186de06339

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linkedin-message-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository gooseworks-ai/goose-skills (1,202 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 3,371 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.