warm-intro-finder

warm-intro-finder is a skill for Claude Code from kalyvask/winning-writing. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,468 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that looks for people who could introduce you to someone you want to contact. It checks links such as mutual contacts, former colleagues, alumni connections, podcast relationships, and shared boards, then ranks the possible introductions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when seeking an introduction to a potential customer, employer, partner, investor, or other contact.
Why use it?
Sending a message through a trusted person can be more useful than contacting a stranger directly. The tool helps find relevant connections instead of relying only on obvious shared contacts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it when seeking an introduction to a potential customer, employer, partner, investor, or other contact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/warm-intro-finder
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 warm-intro-finder
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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README.md
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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,468 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 $0.00133 $0.02468
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01234
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00247

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1ea1f953cf07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warm-intro-finder 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 11d 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/warm-intro-finder/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Warm-intro finder

Source: points/cold-email-rules.md rule 4 ("Find a mutual contact and name them") + the AB test result that the same email sent to [email protected] got zero response while sent direct via warm intro got a reply at 8:25 AM the next morning.

The premise

A warm intro from someone the recipient trusts roughly doubles open rate and triples response rate compared to the same email sent cold. Most cold emails fail not because they're bad, but because the writer never checked their network.

This skill exists because the check is mechanical and almost everyone skips it.

What "warm" actually means

Not all mutual contacts are useful. The bar is:

  • The connector has engaged with both parties recently (within the last 12 months) — a forgotten LinkedIn link from 2014 doesn't count
  • The connector has positive standing with the recipient — a fired ex-employee is worse than a stranger
  • The connector is willing to spend social capital — being a 1st-degree connection is necessary but not sufficient

Rank candidates by these three filters, not just by connection-degree.

Cross-reference the recipient (from recipient-research) against the user's profile (from context/about-me.md) along nine bridge categories. Highest leverage at top.

1. Recent direct collaboration (1st degree)

Anyone the user has shipped a project with or worked closely alongside in the last 24 months who also has a current connection to the target.

2. Investor / board overlap

If the target is a founder or exec, who funds them? Who sits on their board? The user's network of investors and advisors is the highest-leverage bridge to founders.

3. Same-cohort alumni (operative cohort)

Not just "we both went to Stanford" — same year, same program, same section. "Section H 2026" opens doors that "Stanford alum" doesn't.

4. Ex-colleagues at the recipient's current company

People who have left the recipient's company in the last 24 months and remain on good terms. They know the culture and can frame the email correctly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 11d ago First seen · 184 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 1ea1f953cf07

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warm-intro-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (13 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,468 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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