cold-outreach-writer

cold-outreach-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from landedjobs/ai-job-hunt-os. It costs 52 tokens per session (944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for direct messages and emails to hiring managers, founders, engineers, recruiters, or other professional contacts. It helps shape a specific request around a genuine connection point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write referral requests, job-application follow-ups, advice requests, founder or recruiter messages, and questions about whether a posted role is actively hiring.
Why use it?
It reduces generic outreach that gives the recipient no clear reason to reply and sets realistic expectations about results. It also helps clarify whether the goal is a referral, advice, direct consideration, or information about a job.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write referral requests, job-application follow-ups, advice requests, founder or recruiter messages, and questions about whether a posted role is actively hiring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/landedjobs/ai-job-hunt-os/cold-outreach-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add landedjobs/ai-job-hunt-os --skill cold-outreach-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/landedjobs/ai-job-hunt-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 944 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 $0.00052 $0.00944
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 12d ago against content hash 22028d525007, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-outreach-writer 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/cold-outreach-writer/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Outreach Writer

Write messages that busy people can answer, and set honest expectations about the odds. Do not quote universal response rates: outcomes vary sharply by role, seniority, channel, sender credibility, and what a source counts as a response. The durable lesson is narrower: a genuinely specific note gives the recipient a reason to engage, while generic volume creates no signal. Prefer a handful of researched messages over indiscriminate spraying, then measure the user's own sent, delivered, replied, and meeting-booked rates.

What you need

  1. Who to reach (name/role, or "help me pick the right person at company X").
  2. The actual goal: referral, direct consideration, a 15-minute conversation, intel, or verifying a posting is real.
  3. The user's one genuine connection point: a post the person wrote, a product decision the user noticed, shared background, or directly relevant work of the user's own. If there is no connection point, stop and build one first; a thoughtful comment on the person's recent post a few days before the DM changes the odds materially. A message with no specific hook is spam regardless of wording.

Picking the target (when asked)

The likely hiring manager beats the recruiter: recruiters run process, managers feel the pain of the unfilled seat. An engineer on the team is the best referral path. Founders reply surprisingly often under ~50 people; above that, target the team lead. Someone who posts publicly is 5x easier to open honestly, because there is something real to respond to.

Message anatomy (every message, every channel)

  1. Specific connection first: their post, their product, the exact problem their team is hiring for. Never open with the user's name and title; the reader does not care yet.
  2. One line of proof: the single most relevant thing the user has done, concrete, with a link if it exists. "Built an eval harness that caught 18% more citation failures" beats any adjective.
  3. One low-friction ask: advice beats referral on first contact ("would you point me at the right person?" / "worth 12 minutes?"). Never "any opportunities?" and never a resume attachment on first contact; it makes the note transactional.
  4. 50-75 words total. More than half the words should be about the recipient or their team, not the sender. On X, under 50 words.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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 · 46 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 22028d525007

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cold-outreach-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository landedjobs/ai-job-hunt-os (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 944 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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