recruiter-outreach

recruiter-outreach is a skill for Claude Code from matellez/claude-skills. It costs 199 tokens per session (2,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing short messages to recruiters, hiring managers, or company contacts about a job. It covers cold outreach, warm follow-ups, direct messages, and re-engaging an old contact.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft LinkedIn or email outreach, include relevant proof of fit, and contact someone about a specific role or company.
Why use it?
It helps avoid long, generic messages that focus on the applicant instead of giving the recipient a clear reason to reply. It also keeps the message suited to the relationship and platform.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to draft LinkedIn or email outreach, include relevant proof of fit, and contact someone about a specific role or company.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matellez/claude-skills/recruiter-outreach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add matellez/claude-skills --skill recruiter-outreach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matellez/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,523 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 $0.00199 $0.02523
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.01262
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00252

Measured 11d ago against content hash 58f81517648b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recruiter-outreach 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

job-search/recruiter-outreach/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recruiter Outreach: Short-Form Messages That Get a Response

This skill writes outreach messages for a senior B2B practitioner targeting Director-level demand gen, growth, or RevOps roles. The message types covered are: cold LinkedIn outreach to a recruiter who posted a role, warm outreach to a recruiter you have spoken with before, direct outreach to a hiring manager, and re-engagement of a dormant contact at a target company.

These are not cover letters. They are short, specific messages that demonstrate immediate fit and create a reason to respond. Most outreach at this level fails because it is too long, too generic, or opens with the candidate's needs rather than the reader's problem.


HOW TO SET UP THIS SKILL

Provide:

  • The type of outreach: cold recruiter, warm recruiter, hiring manager, or dormant contact reactivation
  • The role title and company if known
  • One or two proof points you want to reference (specific results, not job titles)
  • Any prior relationship with this person (previous conversation, mutual connection, prior application)
  • The platform: LinkedIn message, email, or other

If you do not provide proof points, the skill will ask for them. A message built on generic claims will not perform.


The Strategic Decisions Behind Every Message

Before writing, make these decisions explicitly. Getting them wrong is why most outreach fails.


Decision 1: What is the reader's actual problem?

A recruiter who posted a Director of Demand Gen role is trying to find someone who can generate pipeline for a B2B SaaS company without a lot of hand-holding. That is the problem. Not "a demand gen leader with 10 years of experience." The message should open by making it immediately clear you solve that problem.

A hiring manager who owns a revenue target is trying to find someone who will not make their pipeline problem worse. They are not reading resumes for credentials. They are reading for signals that you have done this before at a similar scale and know what you are doing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 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 · 330 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A 58f81517648b

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recruiter-outreach is a skill published in the GitHub repository matellez/claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 2,523 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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