clay-automation

clay-automation is a skill for Claude Code from LeadMagic/gtm-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,090 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for building Clay workflows. Clay is a platform for combining contact-data enrichment, research, scoring, routing, and CRM updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design Clay tables, enrichment waterfalls, AI-assisted research, signal loops, and transfers of enriched data to HubSpot.
Why use it?
It helps prevent poorly organised workflows, unreliable data, and unnecessary spending of Clay credits. It also explains when to hand work to tools such as n8n or a person.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the gtm-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design Clay tables, enrichment waterfalls, AI-assisted research, signal loops, and transfers of enriched data to HubSpot.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/clay-automation
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 LeadMagic/gtm-skills --skill clay-automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeadMagic/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,090 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 $0.00107 $0.02090
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01045
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00209

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1da0d73dbcb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clay-automation 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-output.py), 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/automation/clay-automation/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clay Automation

Overview

Clay is the orchestration layer where enrichment, scoring, and routing converge. Used correctly, it's a GTM multiplier. Used incorrectly, it's a credit-burning machine producing data nobody trusts.

This skill covers when and how to roll out Clay automation — data quality, table separation, rollout phases, and n8n handoff.

Playbook index: references/automation-playbook-index.md — all 38 automation + tool + gtm-ops playbooks.

Automation strategy (before tool config): Jen Igartua (Go Nimbly) — data before AI, maturity levels 0–4, human+machine division. Canonical → references/gtm-automation-expert-playbook.md (Pattern 30). Outbound copy/infra → Eric Nowoslawski / Pat Spielmann / Justin Michael — not this skill.

Tool implementation (table columns, LeadMagic waterfalls, loops) lives in tools/:

  • clay-toolkit (tools/clay-toolkit) — tables and waterfalls
  • clay-loops-toolkit (tools/clay-loops-toolkit) — signal loops

When to Use

  • "Build a Clay enrichment workflow"
  • "Set up a Clay table for our prospecting"
  • "Configure a waterfall in Clay"
  • "Use Claygent for research"
  • "Push enriched data from Clay to HubSpot"
  • "Optimize our Clay credit usage"
  • "Design a Clay automation pipeline"

Authoritative Foundations

Clay workflow design follows patterns from DAMA-DMBOK data-quality dimensions, Ziellab (3 separate waterfalls: company, email, phone), and GTME Pulse (10 production templates tested at $5M-$100M ARR companies).

The core principle: Clay is a routing engine, not a CRM. Enriched data lives in your CRM; Clay processes it en route.

  • Eric Nowoslawski — Crawl Walk Run (Growth Engine X). Roll out Clay automation in phases: Crawl — manual campaigns for 5–10 companies (no AI); Walk — system prompt with business context + manual examples, review first 50 outputs; Run — automate in Clay → Smartlead/SEP with Supabase for block lists. Default campaign type: Creative Ideas (3 constrained capabilities per prospect). Playbook → ../../outbound/cold-email-strategy/references/eric-nowoslawski-outbound.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 5d ago Changed 1da0d73dbcb3
  2. 10d ago First seen · 206 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A e27c1c60d59a

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clay-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeadMagic/gtm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,090 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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