welcome-email-writer

welcome-email-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated email sent to people immediately after they subscribe to a newsletter. It introduces the publication, sets expectations, and explains what subscribers will receive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when launching, rebranding, or changing a newsletter, including when introducing paid subscription options.
Why use it?
It replaces a generic signup message with a clear first impression that can help new readers understand the newsletter and stay subscribed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when launching, rebranding, or changing a newsletter, including when introducing paid subscription options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/welcome-email-writer
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill welcome-email-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,340 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 $0.00041 $0.01340
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00670
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00134

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8338d0517686, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

welcome-email-writer 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 8d 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/newsletter/writing/welcome-email-writer/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Welcome Email Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes the automated welcome email that new subscribers receive immediately after signing up, establishing the newsletter's voice, making the editorial promise concrete, and setting expectations that reduce early unsubscribes.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are launching a new newsletter and need a welcome email before your first subscriber arrives
  • Your current welcome email is the default platform auto-reply ("Thanks for subscribing!") and you are losing early subscribers
  • You have rebranded or significantly changed editorial direction and need a welcome email that reflects the new positioning
  • You are building a paid newsletter and need a welcome sequence that primes free subscribers for eventual upgrade

What You Need To Provide

Required: Newsletter name and a 2–3 sentence description of what it covers and for whom; the publishing cadence (daily, weekly, etc.); the newsletter's tone and voice in your own words Optional: What prompted you to start the newsletter (if personal origin helps the voice); what you want subscribers to do immediately after reading (reply, whitelist, follow on social, etc.); any paid tier details if applicable; one concrete example of the type of story or insight a subscriber can expect

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Opens with a brief, human acknowledgment of the subscription — not "You've been added to our list" but something that recognises the reader made a deliberate choice and honours that
  2. Delivers the editorial promise in specific, concrete terms: not "we cover the media industry" but "every Monday we give you the one story the media industry spent the week avoiding"; the specificity is what converts a vague interest into an expectation the reader will look forward to
  3. Sets practical expectations: cadence, typical length, what a reader should do if they miss issues (archive links, search tips), and any important logistical notes (whitelist instructions if the newsletter has deliverability issues)
  4. Ends with a single, clear call to action — ideally one that invites a reply, because early replies dramatically improve deliverability by signalling to email providers that the newsletter is wanted

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 80 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 8338d0517686

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welcome-email-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,340 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.