sourcing-outreach

sourcing-outreach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shawnpang/startup-founder-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing recruiting outreach to passive candidates, meaning people who are not actively applying for jobs. It supports cold messages, referral requests, follow-ups, and personalized outreach across channels such as LinkedIn and email.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write LinkedIn messages, cold emails, referral requests, and follow-up sequences for a specific role and candidate.
Why use it?
It helps recruiters make messages relevant to each candidate instead of sending generic job pitches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write LinkedIn messages, cold emails, referral requests, and follow-up sequences for a specific role and candidate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills/sourcing-outreach
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 shawnpang/startup-founder-skills --skill sourcing-outreach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnpang/startup-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,726 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 $0.00022 $0.01726
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00173

Measured 13d ago against content hash 62af1398f671, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sourcing-outreach 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 13d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/sourcing-outreach/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sourcing Outreach

When to Use

Activate when the user asks to write cold outreach to potential candidates (LinkedIn InMails, cold emails), craft referral request messages, build a multi-touch follow-up sequence, or improve response rates on existing recruiting outreach. Also activate when the user is sourcing for a specific role and needs help personalizing messages at scale.

Context Required

  • From startup-context: Company name, one-line mission, stage/funding, notable investors or customers, recent milestones, and team size.
  • From user: Role being hired for, the candidate's name and background (LinkedIn profile, blog posts, talks, open-source work), what specifically drew the user to this candidate, and the communication channel (LinkedIn, email, Twitter DM).

Workflow

  1. Research the candidate — Review the candidate details provided by the user. Identify 1-2 specific, genuine connection points: a project they shipped, a talk they gave, an open-source contribution, a blog post, or a career pattern that signals fit.
  2. Choose the outreach template — Select from: cold LinkedIn InMail, cold email, warm intro request, referral ask, or follow-up. Each has different length and tone constraints.
  3. Draft the message — Write a short, personalized message using the PRC framework (see below). Keep LinkedIn InMails under 300 characters for the preview. Keep cold emails under 150 words.
  4. Add a clear, low-friction CTA — The ask should be small: a 15-minute call, a reply with interest level, or permission to send more details. Never ask for a resume or formal application in cold outreach.
  5. Build the follow-up sequence — Draft 2-3 follow-ups spaced 4-7 days apart. Each follow-up adds new information (a company milestone, a team blog post, a relevant data point) rather than just "bumping" the thread.
  6. Review for tone — Ensure the message sounds human, not templated. Check that personalization is specific enough that it could only apply to this candidate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 13d ago First seen · 131 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 62af1398f671

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sourcing-outreach is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnpang/startup-founder-skills (321 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,726 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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