Cold Outreach
ericrisco/rsc-harness
A skill your agent uses when writing a cold email or LinkedIn DM to a stranger and its cadence: first-touch copy under a word ceiling, 4-7 step bump sequences, per-inbox volume and warm-up limits…
Analyze and benchmark outbound campaign performance against real lemlist data from 244K+ campaigns and 249M+ emails.
$ npx skills add Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system outbound-analyst --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/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst .claude/skills/outbound-analyst && 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 "outbound-analyst" agent skill from https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst into .claude/skills/outbound-analyst/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outbound-analyst", 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/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analystType 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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system outbound-analyst --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst .agents/skills/outbound-analyst && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "outbound-analyst" agent skill from https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst into .agents/skills/outbound-analyst/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outbound-analyst", 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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system outbound-analyst --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst .cursor/skills/outbound-analyst && 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 "outbound-analyst" agent skill from https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst into .cursor/skills/outbound-analyst/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outbound-analyst", 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/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git --path .claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst--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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system outbound-analyst --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst .gemini/skills/outbound-analyst && 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 "outbound-analyst" agent skill from https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst into .gemini/skills/outbound-analyst/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outbound-analyst", 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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system outbound-analystInstalls 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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst .github/skills/outbound-analyst && 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 "outbound-analyst" agent skill from https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst into .github/skills/outbound-analyst/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outbound-analyst", 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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system outbound-analyst --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst .opencode/skills/outbound-analyst && 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 "outbound-analyst" agent skill from https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/tree/main/.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst into .opencode/skills/outbound-analyst/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "outbound-analyst", 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.
outbound-analystAnalyze and benchmark outbound campaign performance against real lemlist data from 244K+ campaigns and 249M+ emails.
Outbound Analyst is an agent skill from Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system. Analyze and benchmark outbound campaign performance against real lemlist data from 244K+ campaigns and 249M+ emails. Use when asked "are my stats good", "is my reply rate good", "why am I not getting replies", "is my open rate normal", "how do I compare to benchmarks", "my campaign is underperforming", "what's a good reply rate", "is X% good for cold email", "my LinkedIn acceptance rate is low", "how many emails should I send per day", "my deliverability is bad", "analyze my campaign stats", or any question…
Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Sales & Support, covering Transactional email and Cold outreach. It works with LinkedIn. The repository describes itself as: YALC 1.0, the open-source Clay alternative. MIT, CLI-first, self-hosted, runs in Claude Code. Yalc today is an intelligent orchestration layer that runs pre configured GTM agents…. The licence is MIT.
3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5686d1f. 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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From 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.
Outbound Analyst loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 186 tokens; SKILL.md has 968 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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
The full file from Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system at commit 5686d1f, republished under its MIT licence (© Othmane-Khadri). 968 words, ~1,902 tokens.
.claude/skills/outbound-analyst/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).Give a clear, honest verdict on outreach stats — not "it depends." Every metric has a benchmark. Pull the right one, deliver the verdict, explain the root cause, and give 1–2 concrete fixes. No padding.
Check the conversation for:
If they share multiple stats, do a full audit. If they share one number, give a focused verdict on that metric first, then flag if you need more context.
The single KPI to track. If there's only one number to care about, it's this one.
Email-only campaigns (from 244K campaigns, 249M emails):
| Verdict | Rate |
|---|---|
| ❌ Bad | < 2% |
| 🟡 Average | ~2–4% |
| ✅ Good | 4–10% |
| 🚀 Really good | 15%+ |
| 🏆 Exceptional | 25%+ (tight list + sharp copy) |
Global reply rate by channel (accounts for all touchpoints):
| Channel mix | Global reply rate |
|---|---|
| Email only | 1.1% |
| LinkedIn + Email | 4.7% |
| LinkedIn + Email + Call | 2.8%* |
| LinkedIn-first sequences | 5.7% |
| Email-first sequences | 2.6% |
*Call adds friction at scale — the bottleneck effect kicks in.
By list size (tighter = better):
| List size | Global reply rate |
|---|---|
| 6–50 leads | 5.3% |
| 51–200 leads | 3.2% |
| 201–500 leads | 2.3% |
| 501–1,000 leads | 1.9% |
| 1,000+ leads | 1.1% |
By steps — LinkedIn + Email (sweet spot = 3 steps):
| Steps | Global reply rate |
|---|---|
| 2 steps | 7.0% |
| 3 steps | 7.2% ← sweet spot |
| 4 steps | 5.0% |
| 5+ steps | 3.4% |
By steps — Email only (more steps ≠ better):
| Steps | Global reply rate |
|---|---|
| 2 steps | 1.9% |
| 3 steps | 1.3% |
| 4 steps | 1.1% |
| 5+ steps | 0.7% |
Should you track it? Not really. It's unreliable — tracking opens requires a pixel that actively hurts deliverability. Treat it as a rough signal only.
| Persona / context | Typical open rate |
|---|---|
| Global average | ~25% |
| C-Levels | ~15% |
| Sales reps | ~25–35% |
| Marketing | ~15% |
| HR | ~25–35% |
| Tech | ~5% |
| Good (signal of strong subject line) | 50%+ |
If open rate is high but reply rate is low: the subject line works, the body doesn't. Fix the copy, not the subject line.
Should you track it? No. Tracking clicks requires links. Links hurt deliverability. Click rate doesn't correlate with pipeline. Drop links from cold emails entirely. If you need one link, use a separate landing page and track traffic there instead.
The % of all contacted leads who replied with genuine interest (not just "remove me").
| Verdict | Rate |
|---|---|
| Industry average | 0.1–0.5% (1–5 meetings per 1,000 emails) |
| ✅ Good | 1–5% |
| 🏆 Exceptional | > 5 meetings per 100 leads contacted |
Note: PRR ≠ meetings booked. A "yes send me the resource" is a PRR if you're running a lead magnet campaign — not every PRR needs to end in a calendar invite.
Like deliverability for email: if you can't get in, nothing else matters.
| Persona | Accept rate benchmark |
|---|---|
| Individual Contributors | ~25% |
| C-Level | ~35% |
| Tech profiles | 40%+ |
Low accept rate = wrong targeting, generic note, or profile that doesn't build trust at first glance. Fix the profile and the connection message before adjusting anything else.
LinkedIn voice note vs text (from 8,364 campaigns):
| Metric | Average | Elite |
|---|---|---|
| Connect rate | 5–20% | — |
| Conversation rate | 5–10% | — |
| Meeting booked rate | 1–3% | 3–5% |
Best times: 8–10 AM and 4–6 PM. Avoid 12–2 PM. 3–4 call attempts per lead optimal (most reps stop at 2). Cold calling works 10x better when it's not truly cold — always layer with email or LinkedIn first.
Are you healthy? Check your warmup score — you want 90+ before sending cold campaigns. Keep warmup ON permanently. Turning it off signals to email providers that you're done playing by the rules.
Timeline: wait 3–4 weeks on a new domain/inbox before sending cold emails.
| Volume | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 30 emails/day/inbox | ✅ Safe — lemlist's recommended max |
| 30–50/day | ⚠️ Acceptable only with 90+ deliverability + 15% reply + >2% PRR |
| 100+/day | ❌ You will land in spam |
The right scaling move: don't push more emails per inbox. Add more inboxes.
Structure every response as:
[Metric]: [X%] Verdict: ❌ / 🟡 / ✅ / 🚀 — [one-line judgment] Benchmark: [relevant reference point from above] Root cause: [most likely explanation given their context] Fix: [1–2 concrete actions, specific and direct]
If they share multiple metrics, prioritize issues in this order:
High open rate + low reply rate → Subject line works, email body doesn't. The copy fails to connect pain to message. Rewrite the first 2 lines and the CTA.
Low open rate + low reply rate → Deliverability or subject line issue. Check warmup score first. If deliverability is fine, rewrite subject lines to be less salesy.
Good reply rate + low PRR → Wrong ICP or wrong CTA. People reply to disengage ("not the right person", "remove me"), not to engage. Sharpen ICP and shift to a PVP-style CTA.
Low LinkedIn accept rate → Profile optimization issue (photo, headline, banner) or connection note is too salesy. Check if the targeting is right (are you reaching decision-makers?).
Good email stats + mediocre overall stats → Sequence is email-only. Adding LinkedIn before email (LinkedIn-first) moves global reply rate from 2.6% → 5.7%. That's the single highest-leverage structural change available.
Good stats on small list, falling off at scale → Expected. Reply rates drop as list size grows (5.3% at 6–50 leads vs. 1.1% at 1,000+). Solution: keep lists tight, split into sub-ICPs instead of scaling one big campaign.
© Othmane-Khadri, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst of Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5686d1f
Outbound Analyst 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outbound Analyst this skillOthmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system | 317 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cold Outreachericrisco/rsc-harness | 174 | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Prospectingcoreyhaines31/marketingskills | 54k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Sales OsromangojiberryAI/gojiberryai-sales-os | 139 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cold Outreach Personalizeraiskilloftheweek/claude-ai-skill-of-the-week | 148 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| B2B Lead Generationminhnv0807/ai-business-skills | 610 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
ericrisco/rsc-harness
A skill your agent uses when writing a cold email or LinkedIn DM to a stranger and its cadence: first-touch copy under a word ceiling, 4-7 step bump sequences, per-inbox volume and warm-up limits…
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minhnv0807/ai-business-skills
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Analyze and benchmark outbound campaign performance against real lemlist data from 244K+ campaigns and 249M+ emails. Outbound Analyst is an agent skill from Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system. Analyze and benchmark outbound campaign performance against real lemlist data from 244K+ campaigns and 249M+ emails.
Outbound Analyst fits situations like: asked are my stats good; is my reply rate good; why am I not getting replies; is my open rate normal.
Run `npx skills add Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst in Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system) into .claude/skills/outbound-analyst in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/lemlist/outbound-analyst in Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system) into .agents/skills/outbound-analyst 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 Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system --skill outbound-analyst -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/outbound-analyst, .gemini/skills/outbound-analyst, .github/skills/outbound-analyst and .opencode/skills/outbound-analyst in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Outbound Analyst is instructions for the agent only.
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. Review the folder before installing.
Outbound Analyst is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Outbound Analyst: Cold Outreach (ericrisco/rsc-harness, 174 stars), Prospecting (coreyhaines31/marketingskills, 54k stars), Sales Os (romangojiberryAI/gojiberryai-sales-os, 139 stars) and Cold Outreach Personalizer (aiskilloftheweek/claude-ai-skill-of-the-week, 148 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Othmane-Khadri (a GitHub user) maintains it in Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system, which has 317 GitHub stars. The repository holds 57 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 20, 2026.
Source: Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.