cold-email

cold-email is a skill for Claude Code from leandroz/claude-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (608 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for emails to people the sender does not know, such as investors, founders, hiring managers, podcast hosts, or potential collaborators.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and draft short outreach emails for introductions, opportunities, advice, partnerships, or hiring.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the useful exchange being offered before writing, so the email has a specific reason for the recipient to reply.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cold-email plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan and draft short outreach emails for introductions, opportunities, advice, partnerships, or hiring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leandroz/claude-plugins/cold-email
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 leandroz/claude-plugins --skill cold-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leandroz/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cold-email, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 608 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 $0.00045 $0.00608
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00243
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cd8fedb994de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-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 2mo 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.

cold-email/skills/cold-email/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold email

A cold email is an invitation to a trade. The recipient replies when the trade excites them and ignores it when it doesn't. No subject-line trick, length optimization, or warm intro rescues a weak trade, and a strong trade survives clumsy writing. So most of the work happens before any drafting: find the real win-win.

Find the trade

Three things have to be clear before writing — who the user is emailing, what they want, and what they can offer that makes saying yes worthwhile. The third is where people stall. Dig for it rather than accepting a vague answer.

Ground it in what the recipient actually values, not what the user assumes they value. What are they working on right now? What have they said publicly that they need help with? Many influential people state this outright on their site or feed. When the user can't answer, research beats guessing.

Then state the trade plainly — what each side gets — and check with the user that both halves are genuinely appealing. A shaky trade is a signal to go back to the trade, not to write more persuasively.

Draft

The body — everything between the greeting and the sign-off — stays under 150 words. This is the one hard constraint. Influential people scan in 15–30 seconds, and every word past the point where they get it costs reply probability. If the trade needs more than 150 words to explain, it isn't sharp enough yet.

Four principles, woven together rather than stacked as separate paragraphs:

Competency — compressed proof they should keep reading: a known network, a hard number, a mutual connection who suggested the intro. Not a resume.

The ask — what the user wants and why it's worth the recipient's time, tied to something they're actively working on. Concrete beats open-ended: a specific thing to look at, a specific amount of time.

Transparent self-interest — why the user wants this and how it fits their trajectory. Hiding the motive reads as untrustworthy; pretending to pure altruism reads worse.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 2mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A cd8fedb994de

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cold-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository leandroz/claude-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 608 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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