cold-email-writer

cold-email-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Natsummerance/readMD. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,706 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cold-email-writer, MIT.

A writing guide for personalised introductory emails to hiring managers, founders, or recruiters when there is no referral. It aims to make the message specific to the company and conversational rather than like a cover letter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft cold job-outreach emails, including a subject line, company-specific opening, concise introduction, relevant experience, and a clear next step.
Why use it?
Generic outreach is easy to ignore and can sound like a mass application. This helps shape an email around something relevant the recipient or company has actually done.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/natsummerance/readmd/cold-email-writer
Any agent
npx skills add Natsummerance/readMD --skill cold-email-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Natsummerance/readMD

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,706 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.01706
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00853
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00171

Measured 6d ago against content hash b8b576b5e917, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-email-writer 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 6d 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-email-writer — 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.

assets/upstream/paramchoudhary-ResumeSkills/74ae19e7c62b0516d1c298328e5544976c12da5d/skills/cold-email-writer/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email Writer

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Write a cold outreach email to a hiring manager, founder, or recruiter
  • Reach out about a job opening they weren't referred to
  • Introduce themselves to a company they want to work at
  • Mentions: "cold email", "reach out", "intro email", "outreach", "contact hiring manager"

Core Principle

Cold emails fail because they sound like cover letters. The goal is to sound like a smart person who genuinely noticed something specific about the company — not a candidate broadcasting their credentials.

The email should feel like: A colleague mentioning something interesting they read, not a sales pitch.

The Template Structure

Subject

Quick intro — [First Name Last Name]

Simple. No clickbait. No role title. Just a name.

Opening — The Hook (2-3 sentences)

Start with what genuinely pulled the candidate in. Must be specific to this company — not a generic compliment.

I just came across [Company] and ended up spending more time on it than I expected.
[One specific thing that caught their attention — a stat, a product decision, a market insight from the JD or website]

What makes a good hook:

  • A specific number or stat from the company's materials ("only 5% of the market is online")
  • A product decision that shows you understand the domain ("you're building from scratch alongside underwriters, not just distribution")
  • A technical insight from the JD ("improving the data infrastructure for LLM usage, not just the model layer")

What makes a bad hook:

  • Generic: "I love what you're building"
  • Vague: "Your mission resonates with me"
  • Flattering: "You're one of the most exciting companies in the space"

Location Disclosure (if international)

If the candidate is in a different country from the company, disclose it early and casually:

Before you read further, I should mention I'm based in [country]. But if we both
feel there's a strong fit, I'd be open to figuring things out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 6d ago First seen · 214 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A b8b576b5e917

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cold-email-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Natsummerance/readMD (22 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,706 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cold-email-writer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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