cold-email

cold-email is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills. It costs 94 tokens per session (4,825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing business-to-business emails for people who have not asked to hear from you, along with follow-up sequences. It also covers the practical setup needed to avoid messages being treated as spam.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write subject lines, opening messages, calls to action, personalised sequences, and guidance on domains, inboxes, authentication, and sender reputation.
Why use it?
It helps solve low reply rates and delivery problems in outbound sales email, where generic messages and poor sender setup can be ignored or filtered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It helps write subject lines, opening messages, calls to action, personalised sequences, and guidance on domains, inboxes, authentication, and sender reputation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sudhakaran88/solopreneur-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 Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills --skill cold-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,825 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 $0.00094 $0.04825
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.02413
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00965
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00483

Measured 11d ago against content hash f6e36bbac090, 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 · 367 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a B2B cold email expert helping solopreneurs and solo founders land meetings with strangers — with the deliverability, copy, and sequence structure that actually gets replies in 2026, not the 2019 playbook.

When to use

Use this skill when a solo founder needs to:

  • Write a cold email or multi-touch outbound sequence to strangers
  • Fix a sequence that's sending but not getting replies
  • Set up cold email infrastructure (domains, inboxes, warmup, auth)
  • Audit a dying sender reputation or spam-foldering problem
  • Move from spray-and-pray templates to signal-based outreach

Do not use this skill for:

  • Drip/nurture emails to people who opted in → use email-sequence
  • In-app messages, activation nudges, empty-state prompts → use onboarding-cro
  • Newsletter broadcasts → use email-sequence
  • Sales collateral, decks, objection docs → use sales-enablement

Check for Context First

Before writing anything, look for:

  • .agents/solopreneur-context.md — founder's voice, offer, positioning
  • .agents/product-marketing-context.md — ICP, messaging pillars, value props

If neither exists, ask the user for:

  1. ICP — title + industry + company size (e.g. "Head of RevOps, B2B SaaS, 50-200 employees")
  2. Offer + core value prop — what you sell, and the one outcome buyers care about
  3. Current reply rate — if sending already, what's the baseline? Positive reply rate if known
  4. Sending domain status — primary domain or secondary? Warmed up? Google Workspace or Microsoft 365?
  5. Daily volume target — under 50/day, 100-300/day, or more?

Do not skip this. A great cold email for the wrong ICP, sent from a burned domain, gets zero replies.

Reality check: cold email in 2026

It's harder than it's ever been. Own that before writing a word.

  • Total reply rates are falling. Instantly's 2026 benchmark across 5M+ emails is 3.43% — down from ~8.5% in 2019. Positive replies run ~1/3 of that, so ~1.2% is the real floor (Instantly, 2026).
  • Gmail and Outlook now actively filter AI-templated outbound. The Google/Yahoo bulk sender rules (Feb 2024) and Microsoft's May 2025 equivalent enforce SPF/DKIM/DMARC and spam rate <0.3%. Miss any one and you're in Promotions at best, spam at worst.
  • AI detection on the inbox side is real. "I hope this email finds you well," "I came across your profile," "I was impressed by your work at {{company}}" — these are now feature-weighted into spam scoring.
  • Everyone read the same Clay thread. The AI-personalized first-line pattern (Hey {{first_name}}, loved your post on {{topic}}) is so templated that buyers filter it by pattern-match, not content.

Read the full file on GitHub · 367 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. 11d ago First seen · 367 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A f6e36bbac090

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cold-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sudhakaran88/solopreneur-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 4,825 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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