senderkit-email-deliverability

senderkit-email-deliverability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from senderkit/senderkit-skills. It costs 167 tokens per session (1,334 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for diagnosing email delivery and domain authentication using standard DNS lookups. DNS is the system that publishes settings for a domain, including records such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a sending domain, generate DNS records, verify email authentication, and troubleshoot SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, or DMARC alignment.
Why use it?
It helps find why transactional email—automatic messages such as receipts or login codes—lands in spam or fails to arrive. It does not change application code or DNS; it reports records for you to apply and then checks them again.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the senderkit plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect a sending domain, generate DNS records, verify email authentication, and troubleshoot SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, or DMARC alignment.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install senderkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 167 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,334 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 $0.00167 $0.01334
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.00667
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00133

Measured 12d ago against content hash 907b7bcccaf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senderkit-email-deliverability 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.

skills/senderkit-email-deliverability/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SenderKit email deliverability

Use this open-source skill to get authenticated, inbox-landing transactional email. It diagnoses a sending domain's authentication, generates the exact DNS records to fix it, and verifies the result — using standard tools (dig/nslookup) that need no install, signup, or API key. The reusable source lives at https://github.com/senderkit/senderkit-skills in the skills/senderkit-email-deliverability/ directory; the skill name remains senderkit-email-deliverability.

Email authentication is required whether the app sends directly via SenderKit or routes through a provider (Resend, SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun, SES, SMTP). This skill is provider-agnostic: it reads and fixes the DNS that controls inbox placement.

This skill does not change application code and does not edit DNS — it inspects DNS, produces records for the user to apply at their DNS host, and re-checks them. To wire sends into the codebase (From domain, headers) use senderkit-integration. To send a live test message and confirm placement use senderkit-mcp-messaging-operations.

Workflow

  1. Identify the sending domain.

    • Establish the exact From domain mail is (or will be) sent from, e.g. mail.example.com or example.com.
    • If known, note the SenderKit DKIM selector and SPF include for the account; otherwise the user obtains these from the SenderKit dashboard (see step 4). Do not guess these values.
  2. Diagnose current DNS. Read references/spf-dkim-dmarc.md for syntax and limits, then query:

    • SPF: dig +short TXT <domain> — flag a missing record, more than one v=spf1 record, syntax errors, and the 10-DNS-lookup limit.
    • DKIM: dig +short TXT <selector>._domainkey.<domain> — confirm the selector is published with a p= public key.
    • DMARC: dig +short TXT _dmarc.<domain> — confirm presence and policy strength (p=none vs quarantine/reject) and reporting (rua).
    • MX: dig +short MX <domain> — sanity check.
    • Alignment: confirm SPF (MAIL FROM/Return-Path) and DKIM (d=) align with the visible From domain.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 12d ago First seen · 61 lines · 167 tokens per session scan A 907b7bcccaf4

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senderkit-email-deliverability is a skill published in the GitHub repository senderkit/senderkit-skills (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 167 tokens to every session and 1,334 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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