cross-model-review

cross-model-review is a skill for Claude Code from kalyvask/winning-writing. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final review of a cold email by a different AI model from the one that wrote it. It gives only a pass or fail decision and identifies named problems when the email should not be sent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a pre-send gate for cold emails, especially when checking strategy, personalization, wording, or unsupported claims.
Why use it?
The model that wrote a message may overlook or excuse its own weak choices. A separate review provides an independent check before sending.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the winning-writing plugin — 32 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it as a pre-send gate for cold emails, especially when checking strategy, personalization, wording, or unsupported claims.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/cross-model-review
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 kalyvask/winning-writing --skill cross-model-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kalyvask/winning-writing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install winning-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills.

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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,366 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 $0.00132 $0.01366
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00683
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00137

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2c1af0e33a01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cross-model-review 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.

skills/cross-model-review/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-model review

Source: points/named-failure-modes.md, points/banned-jargon.md, points/pre-send-checklist.md, points/cold-email-rules.md, points/ai-writing-rules.md. Read those first.

Why this exists

The model that drafted the email rationalizes its own choices. It picked the personalization, so the angle feels genuine. It used the word, so the word doesn't read as jargon. It made the claim, so the claim feels supported.

A second model — different weights, no investment in the draft — sees what the first model rationalized away. That's the whole point. If this skill runs on the same model that drafted, it adds nothing.

The contract

You are NOT here to make the email better. You are here to decide whether it ships.

Two verdicts only:

  • PASS — ship it
  • FAIL — block, with the specific named failure modes listed

Borderline → fail. Cost of a block is one rewrite cycle. Cost of a templated email is the recipient's read of the sender forever.

Invocation rule

The orchestrator (coach.html, cold-email-coach, or the user) routes to a different model than the drafter. This skill assumes routing already happened.

If the user explicitly says you are the same model that drafted, output CANNOT REVIEW — same model as drafter and stop.

Required inputs

  • The draft
  • The recipient dossier (from recipient-research)
  • The sender's about-me.md
  • The original ask

If any are missing, output CANNOT REVIEW — missing [input] and stop. Do not guess.

The catalog of named failures

When you fail an email, name the mode in plain English so the sender knows what to rewrite, not just where they scored low. See points/named-failure-modes.md for the full catalog. Summary:

Strategy failures (5)

  1. Vague ask — not binary; "would love your thoughts," "any feedback"
  2. No "why now" — could have been sent a year ago
  3. Reaching across hierarchy without a reason — junior to senior, no bridge, no novel offer
  4. Stranger asking for a job — first contact asks for hire/intro instead of offering value
  5. Resume dump — multiple lanes instead of one specific story

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · 127 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 2c1af0e33a01

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cross-model-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (14 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,366 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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