email-subject-lines

email-subject-lines is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 155 tokens per session (3,323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for generating several possible subject lines for an email. A subject line is the short text people see before deciding whether to open the message.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for newsletter, welcome, promotional, launch, nurture, or announcement emails, including A/B tests.
Why use it?
It helps writers find clearer and more varied ways to present an email's main idea when the first wording is weak or needs testing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for newsletter, welcome, promotional, launch, nurture, or announcement emails, including A/B tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/email-subject-lines
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-subject-lines
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 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,323 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 $0.00155 $0.03323
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01662
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00665
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00332

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5deb4536b41d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-subject-lines 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.

skills/daniel-bustamante/email-subject-lines/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Email Subject Lines

Generate 5-10 high-converting subject lines for any email using 100 battle-tested frameworks from elite direct-response marketers — matched to your email's specific intent, emotion, and hook.


Why This Works

Subject lines are the most leveraged words you'll ever write. A 10% improvement in open rate on a 10,000-person list means 1,000 more people reading your email — from changing a few words. But most people write subject lines last, when they're tired, using whatever comes to mind first. This skill reverses that by matching your email's intent to proven psychological frameworks that have generated millions in revenue across thousands of campaigns. Every framework is categorized by trigger type so Claude picks the right ones for YOUR specific email.


How to Use This Skill

When triggered, ask the user for:

To generate subject lines, I need:

  1. Paste your email (or describe what it's about)
  2. Email type — Newsletter, promotional, welcome, launch, nurture, announcement?
  3. Audience tone — Casual/friendly, professional, edgy, motivational?
  4. Any words to avoid? — Overused phrases, brand restrictions, etc.

If the user just pastes an email without context, analyze it and generate subject lines immediately.


Process

Step 1: Analyze Email Intent

Read the email content and identify:

  • Primary goal: Sale, engagement, nurture, announcement, content delivery
  • Core emotion: Fear, curiosity, aspiration, frustration, excitement
  • Key hook elements: Numbers, results, pain points, authority figures, timeframes

Step 2: Match Frameworks

Select 3-5 framework categories that align with the email's intent:

Email Intent Best Framework Categories
Sales/promo Urgency, FOMO, Results, Value
Educational Curiosity, Quick Win, Contrarian
Story-based Story, Pain Point, Transformation
Authority-building Authority, Social Proof, Results
Challenge/launch Action, Empowerment, Urgency
Newsletter/content Curiosity, Value, Quick Win, Trend

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 9d ago First seen · 239 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 5deb4536b41d

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email-subject-lines is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 3,323 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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