software-email-engineering

software-email-engineering is a skill for Codex from vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public. It costs 32 tokens per session (6,687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to sending application emails such as password resets, receipts, and notifications. It covers email providers, templates, delivery settings, incoming email, queues, retries, and tracking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build transactional email sending, create responsive email templates, configure delivery domains, handle incoming messages, queue sends, retry failures, and manage unsubscribe links.
Why use it?
It helps emails reach inboxes reliably and keeps failed or repeated sends from causing problems. It also addresses sender authentication using SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to build transactional email sending, create responsive email templates, configure delivery domains, handle incoming messages, queue sends, retry failures, and manage unsubscribe links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/software-email-engineering
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public --skill software-email-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,687 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 184
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
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 $0.00032 $0.06687
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.03343
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00669

Measured 9d ago against content hash e670d968642e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-email-engineering 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_email_auth.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

frameworks/shared-skills/skills/software-email-engineering/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Transactional Email Engineering

Build reliable email systems that reach the inbox.

Quick Reference

Need Recommended Options
Transactional ESP Resend (modern DX), Postmark (deliverability), SendGrid (scale), AWS SES (cost)
Email templates React Email (React components), MJML (responsive markup), Maizzle (Tailwind for email)
HTML email testing Litmus (now part of Validity; pricing jumped sharply post-acquisition), Email on Acid, Parcel (free)
Deliverability setup SPF, DKIM, DMARC, dedicated sending domain
Inbound email SendGrid Inbound Parse, Postmark Inbound, AWS SES receiving
Email queue Background job + idempotent send, dead letter queue for failures
Template preview React Email preview server, Maizzle dev server
Tracking Open tracking (pixel), click tracking (link wrapping), unsubscribe handling

When to Use This Skill

  • Choosing a transactional email provider for an application
  • Building email sending infrastructure (queues, retries, idempotency)
  • Developing HTML email templates that render across clients
  • Setting up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for a sending domain
  • Implementing inbound email processing (reply-by-email, email-to-ticket)
  • Debugging deliverability issues (bounces, spam folder placement, authentication failures)

When NOT to Use This Skill

  • Marketing email campaigns and automationmarketing-email-automation
  • Email deliverability for marketing (list hygiene, segmentation)marketing-email-automation
  • Backend API design and service architecturesoftware-backend
  • Background job infrastructure (generic)software-backend
  • Push notifications and mobile messagingsoftware-mobile
  • Real-time in-app notificationssoftware-realtime

Workflow

  1. Confirm the email job: provider choice, sending infrastructure, template work, deliverability, or inbound handling.
  2. Route lifecycle-marketing, generic backend, or mobile-notification work to the adjacent skill when email engineering is not the main problem.
  3. Choose the provider and template approach from the decision tree.
  4. Apply the relevant architecture, authentication, retry, rendering, and inbound-processing guidance.
  5. Verify current provider capabilities, limits, and policies through the navigation references before final advice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 339 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A e670d968642e

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software-email-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public (87 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 6,687 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 2026-09-03.

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