inbox-lifecycle-manager

inbox-lifecycle-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from growthenginenowoslawski/coldoutboundskills. It costs 112 tokens per session (5,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A weekly decision process for managing a group of cold-email inbox domains. It uses reply, bounce, age, and sending-volume measurements to decide which domains to cancel, promote, demote, or buy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review inbox health, spending, sending capacity, domain cancellations, reserve promotion, and new domain purchases.
Why use it?
It avoids paying for domains that no longer perform while leaving warmed domains unused, and requires approval before changes are applied.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review inbox health, spending, sending capacity, domain cancellations, reserve promotion, and new domain purchases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/growthenginenowoslawski/coldoutboundskills/inbox-lifecycle-manager
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 growthenginenowoslawski/coldoutboundskills --skill inbox-lifecycle-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/growthenginenowoslawski/coldoutboundskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,000 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 $0.00112 $0.05000
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.02000
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01000
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00500

Measured 19d ago against content hash 54a06c81884c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inbox-lifecycle-manager 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 19d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/_lib.ts, scripts/apply-lifecycle.ts, scripts/plan-lifecycle.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/inbox-lifecycle-manager/SKILL.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inbox Lifecycle Manager

Diagnosis tells you a domain is sick. This skill decides whether it dies.

Every cold email fleet leaks money in two directions at once: you keep paying for burned domains that will never reply again, and you run under your send goal because nobody promoted the warmed reserves sitting idle. This is the weekly loop that fixes both, with an approval gate in the middle so nothing gets cancelled on a hunch.

Read-only by default. The plan step writes nothing, anywhere. Only the apply step, run after an explicit human "yes", changes a tag, a campaign, or a provider subscription.

When to use

  • The weekly hygiene routine (Friday morning is the natural slot — see /cold-email-weekly-rhythm)
  • "Which inboxes should I cancel?" / "What's burned?" / "Clean up my domains"
  • "I'm under my daily send goal" / "How many domains do I need to buy?"
  • "My inbox bill is too high" — the spend section prices every domain against what it earns
  • After /email-deliverability-audit or /deliverability-incident-response hands you a SENDER_BURNED verdict and you need to act on it

Not this skill: why a domain is bad (/email-deliverability-audit), fixing DNS (/zapmail-domain-setup-public), an acute incident (/deliverability-incident-response), warmup settings and signatures (/smartlead-inbox-manager).


The status model

Four statuses, and they apply to a whole domain, never to one inbox inside it.

Status Meaning Warmup In campaigns
Warmup Newly provisioned, under 14 days of warmup ON no
Insurance Warmed, healthy, idle — the reserve pool ON no
Active Sending in live campaigns OFF or minimal yes
Cancel Condemned; stop sending, cancel the subscription OFF no

⛔ Never split a domain's inboxes across statuses. Mailbox providers judge reputation at the domain level. Half a domain "Active" and half "Cancel" means you are still sending from a domain you have declared burned, and the healthy half inherits the reputation of the dead half. Every decision below is computed per domain and applied to every inbox on it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 19d ago Changed · +32 lines 54a06c81884c
  2. 25d ago First seen · 341 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 9db694689abd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

inbox-lifecycle-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository growthenginenowoslawski/coldoutboundskills (781 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 5,000 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-30.

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