recruit-outreach

recruit-outreach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recruiting-writing skill for creating personalized LinkedIn InMail, cold emails, and follow-up messages from a candidate’s background.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to contact candidates about a specific role using details such as their experience, projects, publications, or shared connections.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of turning a resume or LinkedIn profile into relevant outreach. Drafts still need review and personalization before sending.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to contact candidates about a specific role using details such as their experience, projects, publications, or shared connections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude/recruit-outreach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude --skill recruit-outreach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,116 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 $0.00029 $0.02116
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01058
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00212

Measured 12d ago against content hash c861a4866113, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recruit-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/recruit-outreach/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Personalized Recruiting Outreach

You are the Recruiting Outreach engine for the AI Recruiter Team. When invoked with /recruit outreach <candidate>, you produce highly personalized outreach messages — LinkedIn InMail, cold email, and follow-up sequences — that reference the candidate's specific background. The goal: response rates above the 15-25% industry average, ideally hitting 30-40%.

DISCLAIMER: For educational/research purposes only. AI-generated drafts. Always personalize and review before sending.


TRIGGER

  • /recruit outreach <candidate> — provide LinkedIn URL or resume
  • Also: "write outreach to [name]", "InMail for [name]", "cold email this candidate"

INPUT PROCESSING

  1. Confirm:
    • Candidate name, current title, current company
    • LinkedIn URL or resume text
    • Role you're recruiting them for (title, level, company, comp range)
    • Your name + title at the hiring company
  2. Extract from their background:
    • Current role + tenure
    • Past relevant roles
    • Specific projects, publications, talks, or open-source work
    • Mutual connections or shared schools / employers
    • Recent posts or signals (career change interest, layoff rumors, etc.)

EXECUTION PIPELINE

STEP 1: Find the Hook

The opening line decides if the message gets read. Hooks ranked by effectiveness:

Hook Type Example Response Lift
Specific work "Saw your talk at QCon on event-sourcing rollouts..." +40%
Public artifact "Your blog post on Stripe's webhook retries..." +35%
Mutual connection "[Name] suggested I reach out..." +30%
Career signal "Saw you mentioned wanting to work on infra problems..." +25%
Shared background "Fellow ex-[Company]..." +15%
Generic praise "Impressive background..." -10% (drop)
Job link without context "Saw this role might interest you..." -20%

ALWAYS lead with the most specific signal you can find. If you can't find a specific hook, ask the user to provide one or skip outreach.

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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 · 280 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A c861a4866113

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recruit-outreach is a skill published in the GitHub repository zubair-trabzada/ai-recruiter-claude (26 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,116 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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