design-email

design-email is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kensaurus/cursor-kenji. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for designing transactional and marketing email templates that work across email clients and screen sizes. Transactional emails are messages triggered by actions such as sign-up, payment, or password reset.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create welcome, receipt, password-reset, marketing, React Email, or MJML templates and review their wording.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unclear copy, broken layouts, multiple competing actions, and emails that are hard to read on phones or in dark mode.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is import { WelcomeEmail } from '../emails/welcome';.

Good fit Use it to create welcome, receipt, password-reset, marketing, React Email, or MJML templates and review their wording.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kensaurus/cursor-kenji
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/design-email

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,142 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 33
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 324
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 329
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00071 $0.03142
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01571
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00314

Measured 5d ago against content hash dd9f354bb17f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-email 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 5d 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/design-email/SKILL.md · 371 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

design-email — Email Templates That Actually Get Read

Degree of freedom: MIXED. Copy and layout judgment [HIGH freedom]; stack detect, markup, send, and preview [LOW freedom — run exactly].

Email is the one channel users check before they check your app. A well-crafted transactional email — clear, warm, fast-loading, and readable on any device — builds trust. A corporate, jargon-heavy, broken email erodes it. This skill handles design and copy. Inbox placement / SPF DKIM DMARC is enhance-email-deliverability.

How to reason

  1. Detect — React Email vs MJML vs none
  2. Audit — copy voice, subject, one action; client-safe layout
  3. Write — specific subject, human "you", plain-text twin
  4. Preview — 375px + dark mode; hand DNS off

Worked example

Detect: @react-email/components already in package.json; emails/ has a receipt only. Audit: password-reset subject is "Account notification"; two CTAs; no preview text. Write: subject "Reset your App password"; one "Reset my password" button; expiry in the first sentence. Preview: npx email dev at 375px; tap target ≥44px; DNS/spam → enhance-email-deliverability.

Self-critique before reporting

  • One action — exactly one primary CTA; subject is specific and honest
  • Client-safe — 600px single column, inline styles, alt text, dark fallback
  • Human copy — "you"/"we"; no jargon or ALL-CAPS subject
  • Right owner — SPF / DKIM / DMARC / bounces / List-Unsubscribe → enhance-email-deliverability

Phase 0: Detect the stack [LOW freedom — run exactly]

package.json        → @react-email/*, mjml, nodemailer, @sendgrid/mail,
                      resend, @aws-sdk/client-ses, postmark
emails/             → existing React Email templates
src/emails/         → email template directory
.env.*              → RESEND_API_KEY, SENDGRID_API_KEY, etc. (reference by name only)
Detected framework Approach
React Email (@react-email/components) JSX components, preview server, multi-client export
MJML XML-like syntax, battle-tested cross-client output
None Implement React Email (current best practice)

Read the full file on GitHub · 371 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. 5d ago First seen · 371 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A dd9f354bb17f

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design-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,142 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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