email-metrics-benchmarks

email-metrics-benchmarks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 57 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for measuring cold email campaigns, meaning unsolicited outreach messages sent to potential customers. It lists benchmarks for opens, replies, clicks, delivery problems, and sequence performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review campaign metrics, diagnose low open or reply rates, set targets, and choose improvements to outreach sequences.
Why use it?
It gives you comparison points for deciding whether campaign results are healthy and helps identify where messages or delivery setup may be failing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review campaign metrics, diagnose low open or reply rates, set targets, and choose improvements to outreach sequences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/email-metrics-benchmarks
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-metrics-benchmarks
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 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00057 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00094

Measured 13d ago against content hash b2bc83a1789d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-metrics-benchmarks 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.

skills/alex-vacca/email-metrics-benchmarks/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email Metrics & Benchmarks

Email Metrics to Track

2X Levers (Metrics you can realistically double)

Metric Current Baseline Good Great
Cold email reply rate 0.5-1.0% 2-3% 5%+
Email open rate 20-40% 50% 60%+
Email click rate 2-5% 5-8% 10%+

Performance by Outreach Type

Outreach Type Reply Rate
Cold outreach (no signal) 6-8%
Signal-based outreach 18-22%
Multi-signal stacked 35-40%
Website visitor follow-up 25-30%
Champion job change 20-25%

Email Structure Checklist

Opening (trigger) + Assumption + Social proof with numbers + Open-ended question

By Seniority

Target Max Sentences Max Words
BTL (Managers, ICs) 3-4 sentences 90 words
ATL (VPs, C-Level) 2-3 sentences 60 words

Deliverability Benchmarks

Metric Target Warning Critical
Bounce rate <2% 2-5% >5%
Spam rate <0.1% 0.1-0.3% >0.3%
Unsubscribe rate <0.5% 0.5-1% >1%

Sequence Performance

Email 1

  • Highest open rate
  • Sets the tone
  • Most important to optimize

Email 2 (Day 3)

  • 40-60% of Email 1 opens
  • Different angle
  • Shorter than Email 1

Email 3 (Day 14)

  • New subject line
  • Fresh approach
  • Delegation ask effective

Email 4 (Break-up)

  • Often highest reply rate
  • Creates urgency
  • Clean exit

Optimization Priorities

If Open Rate Low (<30%)

  1. Test subject lines
  2. Check sender reputation
  3. Verify deliverability
  4. Test send times

If Reply Rate Low (<2%)

  1. Improve relevance/personalization
  2. Shorten message
  3. Strengthen CTA
  4. Add social proof
  5. Test different frameworks

If Meeting Rate Low (<20% of replies)

  1. Qualify better in message
  2. Improve CTA clarity
  3. Reduce friction to book
  4. Follow up faster

Quick Diagnostics

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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 · 147 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A b2bc83a1789d

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email-metrics-benchmarks is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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