josh-braun-copywriting

josh-braun-copywriting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for improving cold outreach emails, which are unsolicited messages to potential customers or contacts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine email copy, personalize outreach, and check messages against rules about brevity, specificity, personality, and loss-focused framing.
Why use it?
It helps remove vague, generic wording and replace it with concise, specific messages that reflect the recipient's situation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to refine email copy, personalize outreach, and check messages against rules about brevity, specificity, personality, and loss-focused framing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/josh-braun-copywriting
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill josh-braun-copywriting
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 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 522 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 $0.00063 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash caee7a62b53a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

josh-braun-copywriting 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.

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/alex-vacca/josh-braun-copywriting/SKILL.md · 76 lines

What it actually says

Josh Braun Writing Principles

The 5 Principles

  1. Write with an eraser - Remove every unnecessary word
  2. Be cheeky - Personality matters, make them smile
  3. Be specific - Credibility comes through precision
  4. Don't say "we reduce costs" - Say "e-commerce companies doing $5k/month overpaying 10-15%"
  5. Use loss aversion - Frame around what they're losing, not gaining

Personalization Best Practices

DO:

  • Custom prompts based on research
  • Facts prospects consistently care about
  • Time business was founded (owners proud of longevity)
  • Recent company news/changes
  • Tech stack signals

DON'T:

  • Generic AI compliments ("Love your work!")
  • Content that sounds same as what they already have
  • Over-personalization that feels creepy
  • Complimenting LinkedIn posts without substance

Key Takeaways

  • Specificity = Credibility: "47% increase" beats "significant improvement"
  • Loss > Gain: People act more to avoid loss than to gain
  • Every word must earn its place: If it doesn't add value, delete it
  • Personality differentiates: Be human, not corporate

Combines with

Skill Why
email-writing-frameworks Apply principles to any framework
personalization-hooks Create hooks that don't feel generic
sdr-outbound-rules Quality checklist alignment
cold-email-templates-34 Review templates against principles

Example prompts

Review this email using Josh Braun's 5 principles and suggest improvements.
Rewrite this email to be more specific and use loss aversion.
Make this email "cheeky" without being unprofessional.

Part of Frontal — free, open GTM skills for your AI agent. Browse the library →

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. 12d ago First seen · 76 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A caee7a62b53a

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josh-braun-copywriting is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 522 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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