cold-email-personalize

cold-email-personalize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mergisi/awesome-hermes-agent. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,699 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for writing the opening lines of personalised cold outreach, meaning unsolicited messages to potential customers. It bases the message on public signals such as a recent hire, product launch, podcast appearance, funding announcement, tweet, or GitHub activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a prospect from a LinkedIn URL, company domain, or name and role, choose the strongest recent signal, and draft a four-line first message.
Why use it?
It avoids generic introductions that do not show why the recipient was contacted. It helps connect a specific recent event to one relevant question.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to research a prospect from a LinkedIn URL, company domain, or name and role, choose the strongest recent signal, and draft a four-line first message.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mergisi/awesome-hermes-agent/cold-email-personalize
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mergisi/awesome-hermes-agent --skill cold-email-personalize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mergisi/awesome-hermes-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,699 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 $0.00043 $0.01699
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00170

Measured 11d ago against content hash 254d600189da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-email-personalize 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.

skills/cold-email-personalize/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email Personalize

Write the opening line of a cold email that doesn't sound like a cold email. The skill takes a prospect (LinkedIn URL, company domain, or just name + role) and writes a 4-line first message that hooks on a specific signal — a recent hire, a product launch, a podcast quote, a funding round, a public tweet — then asks one clear question.

What this skill does

For each prospect:

  1. Enrich the prospect — pull from the input (LinkedIn URL, company domain, name+role) and supplement with public signals: recent hires (LinkedIn jobs page), product launches (Product Hunt / changelogs / blog), podcast appearances, funding announcements (Crunchbase / Twitter), recent tweets, GitHub activity if technical role.
  2. Pick the strongest signal — rank the signals by recency and relevance. The strongest is usually a public commitment (just hired, just launched, just funded) within the last 14 days.
  3. Write a 4-line message:
    • Line 1: signal-driven hook (what they did, when, why it caught your eye)
    • Line 2: one-sentence relevance bridge (why your product matters given that signal)
    • Line 3: concrete result you've seen for similar companies (with a number, not a vibe)
    • Line 4: one specific question, not "Are you free for a 15-min call?"
  4. Refuse generic openers — the SKILL.md is configured to reject "I noticed your company...", "I came across [name]...", "I see you're working on...", "Hope you're doing well." If the available signal is too weak, the skill says so explicitly instead of writing weak copy.
  5. Output — markdown with the email body + a one-line "why this signal" note for your records.

What this skill does NOT do

  • It does NOT send the email. Delivery is your call. Pair with a sending tool (Lemlist, Smartlead, Instantly, your own SMTP) and human approval before send.
  • It does NOT scrape Sales Navigator at scale (that's a TOS issue). Bring data from Apollo, Clay, or your existing list.
  • It does NOT write the follow-up sequence. That's a separate skill (coming soon).
  • It does NOT guarantee replies. Reply rate depends on signal quality + offer fit. The skill optimizes the floor, not the ceiling.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 254d600189da

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cold-email-personalize is a skill published in the GitHub repository mergisi/awesome-hermes-agent (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,699 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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