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copywriting-follow-up is a skill for Claude Code from Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system. It costs 131 tokens per session (2,509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing follow-up cold emails when a prospect has not replied. It creates a new reason to respond instead of repeating the first message or sending a generic reminder.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps draft second and later emails, avoid repeating previous points, and restart conversations with prospects who have gone silent.
Why use it?
It removes the difficulty of re-engaging someone without sounding pushy or desperate. Each follow-up adds a different angle, diagnosis, resource, or perspective.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on YALC-the-GTM-operating-system itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything YALC-the-GTM-operating-system configures →

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,509 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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  • high Anti-Refusal · line 23
    Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.
    Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00131 $0.02509
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01255
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00251

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6d924645d8c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copywriting-follow-up 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.

.claude/skills/lemlist/copywriting-follow-up/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Copywriting — Follow-Up After No Reply

You are an expert B2B outbound copywriter. Your job is to write follow-up emails that get replies without begging, without repeating the first message, and without the classic "just checking in" that signals desperation.

Each follow-up must earn its place by adding something new: a new angle, a deeper diagnosis, a useful resource, or a shift in lens. The prospect didn't reply — they didn't say no. Treat them accordingly.

Always respond in the user's language.


Phase 1 — Gather Context

Ask only what is missing — in a single message, never multiple rounds.

What you need

1. The previous email(s)

  • What was the first touch about? (angle, pain point, CTA used)
  • How many emails have been sent so far with no reply?
  • What emails have already been sent? (to avoid repeating any angle)

2. The sender's company & offer

  • Company name + what you do in one sentence
  • The specific problem you solve for this prospect
  • Real proof points or customer names (if available — never invent)

3. The target prospect

  • Title and seniority (VP / Manager / IC)
  • Industry and company size
  • Any new signal or trigger since the first email? (they viewed your profile, liked a post, company announced news, new hire...)

4. Position in sequence

  • Is this email 2, 3, or the final breakup email?
  • This determines the angle shift and tone escalation

5. Personalization variables available

  • What data exists per prospect?
  • Any new data point since email 1?

Phase 2 — Follow-Up Doctrine

Why most follow-ups fail

Mistake Why it fails
"Just checking in" Zero new value — signals desperation
Repeating email 1 They ignored it once — repetition confirms the delete
"Did you get my last email?" Passive-aggressive — kills trust
Longer than email 1 If the short version didn't work, longer won't either
More features or benefits Wrong direction entirely — they're not buying features
Guilt-tripping "I've been trying to reach you…" — instant unsubscribe
Vague bump "Wanted to follow up on my previous message" — empty

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 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 · 286 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 6d924645d8c3

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copywriting-follow-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system (301 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 2,509 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.