a1-cold-email

a1-cold-email is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ztemerbekov/a1-marketing-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for writing one concise first-contact email to a specific person when there has been no previous conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft a personalized cold outreach email with a low-effort response request, based on supplied recipient, relationship, offer, proof, and sender details.
Why use it?
It helps turn known recipient and offer details into a credible reason to reply without creating a campaign or multi-email sequence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the 2-writing-and-editing plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft a personalized cold outreach email with a low-effort response request, based on supplied recipient, relationship, offer, proof, and sender details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ztemerbekov/a1-marketing-skills/a1-cold-email
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ztemerbekov/a1-marketing-skills --skill a1-cold-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ztemerbekov/a1-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install 2-writing-and-editing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 481 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 $0.00052 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00048

Measured 12d ago against content hash e401b1da2e29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a1-cold-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 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.

skills/a1-cold-email/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Email

Write a concise first-contact email that gives one recipient a credible reason to care and an easy way to respond.

Entry Contract

Accept a request when every requested deliverable contributes to one new cold email for one identifiable recipient and one purpose. A recipient dossier, completed prospect research, offer brief, approved proof, and sender background are completed inputs this skill may consume.

Route an existing business relationship or continued conversation to a1-business-message; retain Cold Email for first contact.

Route these neighboring jobs elsewhere:

  • a multi-email sequence, bulk campaign, or merge-field template is outside this skill;
  • prospect discovery or research is outside this skill;
  • an email that continues an existing conversation is not cold outreach;
  • editing or reviewing a selected existing email is outside this skill.

For a mixed request, state the boundary and stop before drafting any email.

Marketing Context is optional. Read only the first existing repository context in this order: .agents/marketing-context.md, then .claude/marketing-context.md when the canonical path is absent, then root marketing-context.md when both earlier paths are absent. Read no lower-priority context after selecting one. Continue without context when none exists.

Runtime

Follow the cold-email spine for every accepted request. Use the source policy to separate known recipient relevance from speculation.

Output

Lead with one subject line and the finished email. Add a source gap only when missing recipient, relevance, offer, proof, sender, or next-step information materially limits the draft.

If the user requests only the email, only the body, or only the final artifact, return exactly that artifact.

Append exactly one support footer inviting questions, ideas, or problem reports via A1 Marketing Skills only after a final user-facing result that fulfills this skill's job. Omit it for boundary responses, clarification prompts, unsuccessful results, or artifact-only requests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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. 12d ago First seen · 40 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e401b1da2e29

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a1-cold-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository ztemerbekov/a1-marketing-skills (8 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 481 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 2026-08-31.

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