cold-outreach

cold-outreach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,638 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cold-outreach, MIT.

A guide for contacting people who do not already know you by email or LinkedIn. It covers messages to potential customers, partners, investors, and other professional contacts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research prospects and draft single messages or batches of cold emails and LinkedIn messages. It can work from the information the user provides, while noting what extra details would improve the message.
Why use it?
It helps turn a generic message into one based on the recipient's role, company, recent activity, and a clear reason to respond. It also helps when outreach messages are being ignored.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to research prospects and draft single messages or batches of cold emails and LinkedIn messages. It can work from the information the user provides, while noting what extra details would improve the message.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills/cold-outreach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills --skill cold-outreach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,638 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00053 $0.01638
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00819
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00164

Measured 12d ago against content hash cceed6b216ca, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cold-outreach — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cold-outreach/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Outreach

When to Use

Activate when a founder needs to write cold emails or LinkedIn messages to prospects, potential customers, investors, or strategic contacts. Also use when the user says "nobody replies to my emails," "how do I reach out to X," "write me a cold email," or "help with outbound."

Context Required

From startup-context or the user:

  • Target prospect — Name, role, company, and why them specifically
  • Research signals — Recent news (funding, launches, hires), LinkedIn activity, company growth data, or role/industry context
  • Sender positioning — Who you are, what you offer, your unique credibility
  • Platform — Email, LinkedIn, or both
  • Batch size — Single prospect or multi-prospect campaign

Work with whatever the user provides. A strong research signal and clear value prop is enough to draft. Note what would strengthen the message but do not block on missing inputs.

Workflow

  1. Gather context — Read startup-context if available. Ask for missing info on prospect, value prop, and proof points.
  2. Research the prospect — Conduct web searches for recent signals. The core principle: 10 minutes of research transforms a cold message into a warm one. Rank signals by strength:
    • Tier 1 (strongest): Recent news — funding rounds, product launches, key hires
    • Tier 2: LinkedIn activity — posts, comments, job changes
    • Tier 3: Company growth signals — hiring trends, tech stack changes
    • Tier 4 (weakest): Role/industry awareness only
  3. Assign personalization tier — Based on research signals found:
    • Tier 1 (custom): Named signals across multiple research sources — fully personalized message
    • Tier 2 (templated + personalized): Company info and role context — template with personalized elements
    • Tier 3 (volume template): No signals found — use volume approach with strong value prop
  4. Select mode based on scope:
    • Quick: Single connection request + follow-up for one prospect
    • Standard: Four-touch sequence for a prospect (default)
    • Deep: Multi-prospect system with A/B variant messages
  5. Draft the sequence — Write messages following the structure and rules below.
  6. Self-critique pass — Before delivering, validate that personalization connects to the problem. If you remove the personalized opening and the message still makes sense, the personalization is not working. Rewrite.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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 · 117 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A cceed6b216ca

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cold-outreach is a skill published in the GitHub repository Maudeunfledged834/startup-founder-skills (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,638 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cold-outreach, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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