newsletter-welcome-email

newsletter-welcome-email is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 141 tokens per session (1,251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An email-writing guide for creating the first welcome message sent to newsletter subscribers. It uses a structured approach to explain the newsletter, set expectations, and invite a response.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when launching a newsletter, improving subscriber onboarding, or writing a welcome email.
Why use it?
It helps prevent new subscribers from forgetting why they joined, ignoring future emails, or unsubscribing because the newsletter's value is unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when launching a newsletter, improving subscriber onboarding, or writing a welcome email.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/newsletter-welcome-email
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 newsletter-welcome-email
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 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,251 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 $0.00141 $0.01251
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00125

Measured 9d ago against content hash dce3d9669259, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newsletter-welcome-email 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/newsletter-welcome-email/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Newsletter Welcome Email Writer

Write the perfect newsletter welcome email using a proven 6-step formula — because this single email determines whether subscribers become loyal readers or ghost you forever.


Why This Works

Your welcome email is the first email your readers get from you. The first impression. It's also the moment they decide whether they made a good decision (or a mistake) by subscribing. If you don't nail it, the long-term implications are brutal: lower open rates (they never learned to expect your emails), worse deliverability (they never replied or engaged), and higher unsubscribe rates (they forgot why they signed up). This 6-step formula, developed from studying 50+ newsletters, ensures every welcome email builds the right habits from day one.


How to Use This Skill

When triggered, ask the user for:

To write your welcome email, I need:

  1. Newsletter name — What's it called?
  2. Your name — Who's it from?
  3. Subscriber count (approximate) — For social proof
  4. Target audience — Who are your readers?
  5. Value proposition — What do subscribers get? (Topic, format, benefit)
  6. Frequency — How often do you send? (Daily, weekly, etc.)
  7. Day of week (if applicable) — When do emails go out?
  8. Time investment — How long do you spend on each edition?
  9. Reply incentive — What will you send them for replying? (Gift, bonus, resource)
  10. Best content link — Where can new readers get instant value? (Best-of page, starter guide, etc.)
  11. Low-ticket product (optional) — For a welcome offer

The 6-Step Formula

Step 1: Reinforce Their Decision to Subscribe

Give a warm welcome and make them feel like they made a smart choice. Combine a friendly greeting with social proof.

Example: "Hey, welcome to [Newsletter]! And congrats — you just joined a select group of [number]+ savvy [audience description] learning [main benefit] every [frequency]."

Don't just say "thanks for subscribing." Reinforce that they joined something valuable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A dce3d9669259

Subscribe to this mod's changes

newsletter-welcome-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,251 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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