cold-email-4-sequence

cold-email-4-sequence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for writing a four-email cold outreach sequence for business prospecting. Cold email means contacting potential business customers who have not asked to hear from you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing trigger-based opening emails, pain-point and metric messages, delegation questions, and final break-up emails.
Why use it?
It provides a fixed structure and timing for follow-ups, so outreach does not become a series of unrelated messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Writing trigger-based opening emails, pain-point and metric messages, delegation questions, and final break-up emails.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill cold-email-4-sequence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swan-gtm/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 555 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00075 $0.00555
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00222
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00056

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 688f4370849e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-email-4-sequence 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 1mo 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/alex-vacca/cold-email-4-sequence/SKILL.md · 82 lines

What it actually says

Cold Email 4-Sequence Framework

Standard 4-email sequence framework for cold outreach.

Email 1 - Trigger-Based Opening

  • Observation about their situation + one-line case study
  • Soft CTA (question-based)
  • Length: 3-4 sentences BTL, 2-3 sentences ATL

Email 2 - Pain/Main KPI Focus

  • Address primary pain point
  • Connect to key metric they care about

Email 3 - Someone Else's Responsibilities

  • Delegation ask ("who handles X?")
  • Opens thread to correct person

Email 4 - Break-Up

  • Timing question ("Is this not a priority right now?")
  • Clean exit that leaves door open

Email Structure Checklist

Opening (trigger) + Assumption + Social proof with numbers + Open-ended question
  • BTL emails: 3-4 sentences
  • ATL emails: 2-3 sentences

Timing

  • Email 2: Send 3 days after Email 1
  • Email 3: Send 14 days later (new subject line)
  • Email 4: Break-up if no response

Combines with

Skill Why
personalization-hooks Add strong/lite hooks to Email 1
email-writing-frameworks Structure each email with proven frameworks
email-1-variations-7 Get 7 variations for Email 1
cold-email-templates-34 Browse 34 templates for inspiration
buying-signals-6 Choose the right trigger for Email 1

Example prompts

Write a 4-email sequence for SaaS companies targeting VP Sales, using job change as the trigger.
Create Email 1 and Email 4 for an agency selling to marketing directors at e-commerce companies.
Rewrite this email sequence to be more ATL-friendly (shorter, 2-3 sentences per email).

Part of Frontal — free, open GTM skills for your AI agent. Browse the library →

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. 1mo ago First seen · 82 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 688f4370849e

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cold-email-4-sequence is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (220 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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