email-deliverability

email-deliverability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An email-delivery audit and recovery process for diagnosing spam placement, falling open rates, blocklists, or problems with a sending domain or IP address. It checks sending infrastructure, recipient data, and recent changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reverse DNS, bounce rates, mailbox-provider performance, IP setup, and domain warm-up before increasing email volume.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether poor email performance comes from authentication, sender reputation, list quality, or sending behaviour. It also provides a severity-ranked diagnosis or a dated recovery plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps audit SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reverse DNS, bounce rates, mailbox-provider performance, IP setup, and domain warm-up before increasing email volume.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,018 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 $0.00103 $0.01018
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00102

Measured 9d ago against content hash 81c70970d4e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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/joshua-waldman/email-deliverability/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run this when email performance breaks, or before it gets the chance to. It produces either a severity-ranked audit of the sending setup or a root-cause diagnosis with a dated recovery plan.

The play

  1. Pick the mode. Proactive review → audit the setup top to bottom. Active fire ("we're in spam") → diagnose.
  2. Scope first. Pull send volume, open rates by mailbox provider, shared vs dedicated IPs, and what changed right before the drop. An open rate below 10% at any provider confirms a deliverability problem, whatever anyone thinks of open tracking accuracy.
  3. Walk the four pillars, in order:
    • Infrastructure. SPF, DKIM, DMARC present and verified recently — whole zone files disappear during migrations. The server's HELO announcement must match the IP's reverse DNS; a mismatch is an automatic blocklisting.
    • Data. Hard bounces above 0.5% mean stop and clean. Soft bounces above 2% mean investigate before removing anything: Microsoft graylists legitimate senders heavily and ProofPoint soft-bounces on send rate, so both inflate the number with no list-quality problem behind it. Retry soft bounces three times across 72 hours, then treat what still fails as hard. After an ESP migration, check whether old bounces were accidentally re-imported.
    • Content. Ask: how is this email distinguishable from a scam? Missing branding, HTML-only sends, bloated code, and mismatched sender identity all read as scam patterns to filters.
    • Traffic shape. The big one — solving it at the pipe solves most of the problem. Throttle per provider, never raise volume more than 50% week over week, and spread large sends across 3-4 days.
  4. Classify and prescribe. Blocklisted → delist, but fix the root cause first or the listing comes back. Content filtered → pause that provider for 24-48 hours, fix, retest on an engaged segment. Broken authentication → fix DNS, wait for propagation before resuming. New or damaged sender → run the ramp in references/warmup-playbook.md.
  5. Define monitoring. Set thresholds that trigger a pause, not a postmortem: bounce spikes, complaint rate above 0.3%, one provider dropping while the others hold.

When the work goes deep, read references/warmup-playbook.md (week-by-week recovery ramp with per-provider volumes), references/shared-pool-management.md (pool contamination, compliance rails, high-risk verticals), and references/provider-specific-tactics.md (Gmail, Microsoft, Yahoo, iCloud, ProofPoint).

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 47 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 81c70970d4e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

email-deliverability is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (153 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,018 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 2026-09-03.

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