cold-email

cold-email is a skill for Claude Code from oncesylvia/fundraising-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,211 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for short, personalized cold emails to investors, such as venture-capital firms or angel investors, plus polite follow-up messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps founders draft investor outreach, follow-ups, and concise meeting requests when they can provide a real reason the investor is a fit.
Why use it?
It addresses generic outreach and unsupported claims by requiring specific, truthful information about the investor, the company, its traction, and the request.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fundraising-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps founders draft investor outreach, follow-ups, and concise meeting requests when they can provide a real reason the investor is a fit.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fundraising-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,211 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 $0.00080 $0.01211
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00606
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00121

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8eba4d0cb42e, 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 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/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold email to investors

Write a cold email that earns a reply by being short, specific, and obviously researched. The bar: the investor should feel you wrote it for them, it should be skimmable in 15 seconds, and the ask should be trivially easy to say yes to.

Read shared/references/outreach-ethics.md first. If you can't ground the email in something true and specific about this investor, it isn't ready — go research (use the investor-targeting skill) before drafting.

Gather before drafting

Ask the founder for whatever is missing:

  1. Who you're emailing — name, firm, and the specific reason they fit (a recent deal, a stated thesis, a portfolio company like yours). This is the personalization hook; without it, stop.
  2. One-liner — what you do, for whom.
  3. Traction — the 1–2 hardest, truest proof points (revenue, growth, users, notable design partners/LOIs). Use the founder's numbers verbatim.
  4. The ask & the raise — stage, how much, and what you want from this email (usually a 20–30 min call, not "let's talk").
  5. Credibility — anything that de-risks the founder (relevant background, notable existing investors/advisors — only if real).

The anatomy (keep it ~75–125 words)

See references/email-anatomy.md for the deep version. The shape:

  1. Subject line — 3–6 words, concrete, no hype. Offer two A/B options. Good: "Seed round — for " / " + our ". Bad: "Game-changing opportunity!!!"
  2. The hook (1 sentence) — the specific, true reason you're emailing them. "I saw you led 's seed — we're building the version for ."
  3. What you do (1 sentence) — crisp, jargon-free, the wedge.
  4. Traction (1–2 sentences) — the proof that you're worth 20 minutes. Numbers > adjectives.
  5. The ask (1 sentence) — one specific, low-friction request. "Open to a 20-min call next week?" Optionally offer the deck/data instead of attaching.
  6. Signature — name, role, company, one link (site or deck). No giant attachments on a cold email.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 99 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 8eba4d0cb42e

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cold-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository oncesylvia/fundraising-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,211 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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