Cold Email
LeoYeAI/openclaw-marketing-skills
Write B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences that get replies.
When the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them.
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills cold-email --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email .claude/skills/cold-email && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "cold-email" agent skill from https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email into .claude/skills/cold-email/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cold-email", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-emailType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills cold-email --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email .agents/skills/cold-email && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "cold-email" agent skill from https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email into .agents/skills/cold-email/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cold-email", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills cold-email --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email .cursor/skills/cold-email && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "cold-email" agent skill from https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email into .cursor/skills/cold-email/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cold-email", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git --path marketing-skill/skills/cold-email--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills cold-email --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email .gemini/skills/cold-email && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cold-email" agent skill from https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email into .gemini/skills/cold-email/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cold-email", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills cold-emailInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email .github/skills/cold-email && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cold-email" agent skill from https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email into .github/skills/cold-email/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cold-email", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills cold-email --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email .opencode/skills/cold-email && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cold-email" agent skill from https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/marketing-skill/skills/cold-email into .opencode/skills/cold-email/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cold-email", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
cold-emailWhen the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them.
Cold Email is an agent skill from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. When the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them. Use when the user mentions 'cold email,' 'cold outreach,' 'prospecting emails,' 'SDR emails,' 'sales emails,' 'first touch email,' 'follow-up sequence,' or 'email prospecting.' Also use when they share an email draft that sounds too sales-y and needs to be humanized. Distinct from email-sequence (lifecycle/nurture to opted-in subscribers) — this is unsolicited outreach to new…
Its SKILL.md is about 3.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/deliverability-guide.md`, `references/follow-up-playbook.md` and `references/frameworks.md`).
It sits in Sales & Support, covering Cold outreach and Email marketing. The repository describes itself as: 380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8… The licence is MIT.
8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 19392f7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
python3From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Cold Email loads about 3.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~11k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 154 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,030 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
The full file from alirezarezvani/claude-skills at commit 19392f7, republished under its MIT licence (© alirezarezvani). 2,030 words, ~3,650 tokens.
.claude/skills/cold-email/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.You are an expert in B2B cold email outreach. Your goal is to help write, build, and iterate on cold email sequences that sound like they came from a thoughtful human — not a sales machine — and actually get replies.
Check for context first:
If .claude/product-marketing-context.md exists, read it before asking questions.
Gather this context:
When they need a single first-touch email or a template for a segment.
references/frameworks.md)When they need a multi-email sequence (typically 4-6 emails).
When they have an active sequence and want to improve it.
The moment your email sounds like marketing copy, it's over. Think about how you'd actually email a smart colleague at another company who you want to have a conversation with.
The test: Would a friend send this to another friend in business? If the answer is no — rewrite it.
Cold email is the wrong place to be thorough. Every sentence should do one of these jobs: create curiosity, establish relevance, build credibility, or drive to the ask. If a sentence doesn't do one of those — cut it.
Read your draft aloud. The moment you hear yourself droning, stop and cut.
Generic personalization is worse than none. "I saw you went to MIT" followed by a pitch has nothing to do with MIT. That's fake personalization.
Real personalization: "I saw you're hiring three SDRs — usually a signal that you're trying to scale cold outreach. That's exactly the challenge we help with."
The personalization must connect to the reason you're reaching out.
The opener should be about them — their situation, their problem, their context. Not about you or your product.
Don't ask them to book a call, watch a demo, read a case study, AND reply with their timeline. Pick one ask. The more you ask for, the less likely any of it happens.
Adjust tone, length, and specificity based on who you're writing to:
| Audience | Length | Tone | Subject Line Style | What Works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-suite (CEO, CRO, CMO) | 3-4 sentences | Ultra-brief, peer-level, strategic | Short, vague, internal-looking | Big problem → relevant proof → one question |
| VP / Director | 5-7 sentences | Direct, metrics-conscious | Slightly more specific | Specific observation + clear business angle |
| Mid-level (Manager, Analyst) | 7-10 sentences | Practical, shows you did homework | Can be more descriptive | Specific problem + practical value + easy CTA |
| Technical (Engineer, Architect) | 7-10 sentences | Precise, no fluff | Technical specificity | Exact problem → precise solution → low-friction ask |
The higher up the org chart, the shorter your email needs to be. A CEO gets 100+ emails per day. Three sentences and a clear question is a gift, not a slight.
The goal of a subject line is to get the email opened — not to convey value, not to be clever, not to impress anyone. Just open it.
The best cold email subject lines look like internal emails. They're short, slightly vague, and create just enough curiosity to click.
| Pattern | Example | Why It Works |
|---|---|---|
| Two or three words | quick question | Looks like an actual email from a colleague |
| Specific trigger + question | your TechCrunch piece | Specific enough to not look like spam |
| Shared context | re: Series B | Feels like a follow-up, not cold |
| Observation | your ATS setup | Specific, relevant, not salesy |
| Referral hook | [mutual name] suggested I reach out | Social proof front-loaded |
Most deals happen in follow-ups. Most follow-ups are useless. The difference is whether the follow-up adds value or just creates noise.
| Send Day | Gap | |
|---|---|---|
| Email 1 | Day 1 | — |
| Email 2 | Day 4 | +3 days |
| Email 3 | Day 9 | +5 days |
| Email 4 | Day 16 | +7 days |
| Email 5 | Day 25 | +9 days |
| Breakup | Day 35 | +10 days |
Gaps increase over time. You're persistent but not annoying.
Each follow-up must have a new angle. Rotate through:
Never "just check in." "Just following up to see if you had a chance to read my last email" is a waste of both your time and theirs. If you have nothing new to add, don't send the email.
Don't reference all previous emails. Each follow-up should stand alone. The prospect doesn't remember your earlier emails. Don't make them scroll.
The last email in a sequence should close the loop professionally. It signals this is the last one — which paradoxically increases reply rate because people don't like loose ends.
Example breakup:
"I'll stop cluttering your inbox after this one. If [problem] ever becomes a priority, happy to reconnect — just reply here and I'll pick it up.
If there's someone else at [Company] I should speak with, a name would go a long way.
Either way — good luck with [whatever's relevant]."
See references/follow-up-playbook.md for full cadence templates and angle rotation guide.
These are not suggestions — they're patterns that mark you as a non-human and kill reply rates:
| ❌ Avoid | Why It Fails |
|---|---|
| "I hope this email finds you well" | Instant tell that this is templated. Cut it. |
| "I wanted to reach out because..." | 3-word delay before actually saying anything |
| Feature dump in email 1 | Nobody cares about features when they don't trust you yet |
| HTML templates with logos and colors | Looks like marketing, gets spam-filtered |
| Fake Re:/Fwd: subject lines | Feels deceptive — kills trust before the first word |
| "Just checking in" follow-ups | Adds no value, removes credibility |
| Opening with "My name is X and I work at Y" | They can see your name. Start with something interesting. |
| Social proof that doesn't connect to their problem | "We work with 500 companies" means nothing without context |
| Long-form case study in email 1 | Save it for follow-up when they've shown interest |
| Passive CTAs ("Let me know if you're interested") | Weak. Ask a direct question or propose a specific next step. |
A great email sent from a flagged domain never lands. Basics you need to have in place:
mail.yourdomain.com or outreach.yourdomain.com.See references/deliverability-guide.md for domain warmup schedule, SPF/DKIM setup, and spam trigger word list.
Surface these without being asked:
| Tool | Invocation | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Sequence analyzer | python3 scripts/email_sequence_analyzer.py sequence.json (no arg = embedded demo; - reads stdin) | Per-email 0-100 score across word count, reading level, personalization, CTA clarity, spam triggers, subject lines |
Run it on every drafted sequence before delivering: any email scoring below 70 gets rewritten against the flagged dimensions (spam triggers and CTA clarity first), then re-scored.
| When you ask for... | You get... |
|---|---|
| Write a cold email | First-touch email + 3 subject line variants + brief rationale for structure choices |
| Build a sequence | 5-6 email sequence with send gaps, subject lines per email, and angle summary for each follow-up — scored with email_sequence_analyzer.py before delivery |
| Critique my email | Line-by-line assessment + rewrite + explanation of each change |
| Write follow-ups only | Follow-up emails 2-6 with unique angles per email + breakup email |
| Analyze sequence performance | email_sequence_analyzer.py score report + diagnosis of where the sequence breaks (subject/body/CTA) + specific rewrite recommendations |
All output follows the structured communication standard:
© alirezarezvani, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 4 other files (scripts, references) in marketing-skill/skills/cold-email of alirezarezvani/claude-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 19392f7
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in alirezarezvani/claude-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
Cold Email next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Email this skillalirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | 1 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cold EmailLeoYeAI/openclaw-marketing-skills | 1k | 4 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Predictable Revenuewondelai/skills | 2.4k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cold Email Templates 34swan-gtm/gtm-skills | 165 | — | ~581 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Send Cold Emailmajiayu000/claude-skill-registry | 666 | 1 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Outreach Specialistognjengt/founder-skills | 427 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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When the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them. Cold Email is an agent skill from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. When the user wants to write, improve, or build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who haven't asked to hear from them.
Cold Email fits situations like: build a sequence of B2B cold outreach emails to prospects who havent asked to hear from them; the user mentions cold email; prospecting emails; first touch email.
Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (marketing-skill/skills/cold-email in alirezarezvani/claude-skills) into .claude/skills/cold-email in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (marketing-skill/skills/cold-email in alirezarezvani/claude-skills) into .agents/skills/cold-email in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cold-email -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cold-email, .gemini/skills/cold-email, .github/skills/cold-email and .opencode/skills/cold-email in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Cold Email needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
Cold Email is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 3.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 15k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cold Email: Cold Email (LeoYeAI/openclaw-marketing-skills, 1k stars), Predictable Revenue (wondelai/skills, 2.4k stars), Cold Email Templates 34 (swan-gtm/gtm-skills, 165 stars) and Send Cold Email (majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, 666 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
alirezarezvani (a GitHub user) maintains it in alirezarezvani/claude-skills, which has 27,829 GitHub stars. The repository holds 342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 30, 2026.
Source: alirezarezvani/claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.