email-1-variations-7

email-1-variations-7 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of seven structures for the first email in a cold outreach sequence, plus follow-up examples. The structures use openings such as an observation, question, trigger, statistic, or role-specific problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or test first-touch emails, follow-ups, subject lines, and complete outreach cadences.
Why use it?
It gives you several ways to start a prospecting sequence and compare which opening gets better engagement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write or test first-touch emails, follow-ups, subject lines, and complete outreach cadences.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill email-1-variations-7
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 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 733 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 $0.00077 $0.00733
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00293
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6181763a4850, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-1-variations-7 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/email-1-variations-7/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

7 Email 1 Variations (Frontal Core Framework)

Variation 1: Observation → Solution → Proof → CTA

[Observation question about their situation?]

[Solution statement.] [Social proof with specific number.]

[Soft CTA question?]

Variation 2: Question → Problem → Solution + Proof → CTA + PS

[Observation question?]

[Problem statement they likely face.]

[Solution + social proof combined.]

[CTA]

PS - [Additional social proof]

Variation 3: First Line → Poke Bear → Value Prop → CTA

[Relevant personalized first line]

[Poke the bear question about their pain?]

We help companies like {{similar_company}} achieve {{result}} without {{obstacle}}.

[CTA]

Variation 4: Trigger → Problem → Solution → Calculation → CTA

[Personalized trigger reference]

[Problem statement]

[Solution]

[Specific calculation showing impact]

[CTA]

Variation 5: Stat → Question → Value CTA

[Industry statistic]

[Question linking stat to their specific problem?]

[Value-based CTA offering resource/insight]

Variation 6: Trigger → Achievement → CTA

[Relevant trigger observation]

[Social proof achievement we delivered for similar company]

[Direct CTA]

Variation 7: Role Pain → Solution → Answer Objection → Soft CTA

What {{title}}s hate about their job: [common pain]

[How we solve it]

[Pre-answer their likely question]

[Very soft CTA]

Email 2 Template (Send 3 Days Later)

Subject: RE: (same thread)

[Lead magnet offer]

[Social proof]

[Value prop restated differently]

[CTA]

Email 3 Template (Send 14 Days Later - New Subject)

Subject: [New subject line]

[New Email 1 variation - different angle]

[Very soft CTA asking for right person]
"If this isn't you, who should I be talking to about {{topic}}?"

Combines with

Skill Why
cold-email-4-sequence Slot variations into Email 1 position
email-writing-frameworks Each variation uses different framework
personalization-hooks Add hooks to first line of each variation
atl-btl-messaging Adjust variation for seniority

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 1mo ago First seen · 166 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 6181763a4850

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email-1-variations-7 is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (220 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 733 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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