email-writing-frameworks

email-writing-frameworks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of five structures for writing cold sales emails, including messages based on calculations, recent signals, similar companies, outside insights, and leaders' responsibilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft cold emails, match a message format to a target customer, and write short outreach with a specific call to action.
Why use it?
It helps choose a suitable structure and keeps outreach focused on one relevant problem and a clear next step.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to draft cold emails, match a message format to a target customer, and write short outreach with a specific call to action.

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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-writing-frameworks
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 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 645 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
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00061 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00064

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7ac3b60c73e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

email-writing-frameworks 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 12d ago.

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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-writing-frameworks/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email Writing Frameworks

1. Do the Maths Framework

Trigger + pitch + calculation + CTA

Structure:

Saw [trigger]. Companies like yours typically [problem costing X].
We helped [similar company] reduce this by [%].
Worth a quick call?

When to use: When you can quantify the problem or ROI


2. Short-Trigger Based Outreach

Rules:

  • 3-4 sentences maximum
  • Lead with observation, not pitch
  • One clear CTA

Structure:

[Observation about their situation]
[Brief connection to pain point]
[Soft CTA]

When to use: Default framework for most cold outreach


3. Challenge of Similar Companies

Reference industry-specific pain and position as pattern you've seen.

Structure:

Companies doing [X revenue] in [industry] often struggle with [problem].

We've helped [similar companies] solve this by [solution].

Is this on your radar?

When to use: When targeting a specific vertical or company profile


4. Neutral Insight Framework

Share third-party resource (not your content) to build trust before pitching.

Structure:

Came across this [resource] that addresses [their problem].

Thought it might be useful given [observation about their situation].

[Optional soft pitch]

When to use: For warming up cold prospects, building trust first


5. Leader Responsibilities

Role-specific questions that prompt reflection.

Structure:

As [title], how are you currently handling [challenge]?

Most [titles] I talk to are dealing with [common problem].

Worth comparing notes?

When to use: When targeting specific roles with known pain points


Combines with

Skill Why
cold-email-4-sequence Apply frameworks to each email in sequence
josh-braun-copywriting Polish copy after choosing framework
cold-email-templates-34 See templates using each framework
personalization-hooks Add hooks to framework structure

Example prompts

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 124 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 7ac3b60c73e5

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email-writing-frameworks is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 645 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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