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cold-outreach

cold-outreach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for sending the first messages to people who do not know you, such as direct messages, emails, or LinkedIn messages. It uses short, useful observations and planned follow-ups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write cold outreach sequences that open a conversation, share an observation, provide proof, make an offer, and follow up at an appropriate pace.
Why use it?
It helps avoid sending a pitch too early or repeatedly contacting someone without adding anything new. It also gives clear points at which to stop.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 19repo +1 2mo ago A scan 23 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to write cold outreach sequences that open a conversation, share an observation, provide proof, make an offer, and follow up at an appropriate pace.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yanniskiefer/dark-psychology-skills/cold-outreach
View source ↗ YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills
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 YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills --skill cold-outreach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 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.
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 $0.00023 $0.00416
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00166
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d22e91207126, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-outreach 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 2mo 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/cold-outreach/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Cold Outreach

The Big Idea

Your first message has one job: earn a second message.

No price. No pitch. No links. The stranger owes you nothing.

Everyone scans. Line one decides everything.

The Moves

  1. Prove you looked. "Noticed your shop has a 1-star right under your phone number." Real attention stops thumbs. Templates are invisible.

  2. Open a loop. "Something about your listing makes this fixable. Most owners never hear what." A gap begs one reply to close it.

  3. Give value in message one. One true, useful fact. Costs nothing. Flips you from taker to giver.

  4. Run a sequence, not spam. Touch 1: what you noticed. Touch 2: teach one thing. Touch 3: show proof. Touch 4: apply it to them. Mention limited spots once, only if true. Touch 5: short offer. Every touch carries something new. "Just bumping this" is dead air.

  5. Know when to stop. Two silent touches after the offer means park it. Come back in weeks.

  6. Copy their speed. They answer in hours? You wait at least an hour. Never double-text the same day.

  7. Exit with an open door. "Done, won't bother you. If it ever matters, reply AUDIT and I check your listing free."

When It Backfires

  • Links in message one. Reads like mass marketing. Gets reported.
  • Fake deadlines anywhere. One lie poisons all five touches.
  • Personal stuff (family, health). Talk business only.

One-Line Memory

People ignore pitches. They remember someone who understood their situation before asking for anything.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A d22e91207126

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cold-outreach is a skill published in the GitHub repository YannisKiefer/dark-psychology-skills (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 416 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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