warm-intro-finder SKILL.md skillA
warm-intro-finder from kalyvask/winning-writing is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/warm-intro-finder@git:20260501.d9b6dfbPins git:20260501.d9b6dfb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kalyvask/winning-writing
- Path
skills/warm-intro-finder/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260501.d9b6dfb, committed May 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 30, 2026
- Size
- 10,755 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Finds the human bridges between the writer and a target — mutual contacts, alumni networks, ex-colleagues, podcast connections, board overlaps — and ranks them by how likely they are to make a useful introduction. Different from connection-finder (which finds "like you" content hooks). This one finds *people* who can vouch. Use whenever the user is about to send a cold email and hasn't checked who they know in common with the target. Triggers on "warm intro," "find a connection…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Warm-intro finder
Source: `points/cold-email-rules.md` rule 4 ("Find a mutual contact and name them") + the AB test result that the same email sent to `jobs@anthropic.com` got zero response while sent direct via warm intro got a reply at 8:25 AM the next morning.
## The premise
A warm intro from someone the recipient trusts roughly **doubles** open rate and **triples** response rate compared to the same email sent cold. Most cold emails fail not because they're bad, but because the writer never checked their network.
This skill exists because the check is mechanical and almost everyone skips it.
## What "warm" actually means
Not all mutual contacts are useful. The bar is:
- The connector has **engaged with both parties recently** (within the last 12 months) — a forgotten LinkedIn link from 2014 doesn't count
- The connector **has positive standing with the recipient** — a fired ex-employee is worse than a stranger
- The connector is **willing to spend social capital** — being a 1st-degree connection is necessary but not sufficient
Rank candidates by these three filters, not just by connection-degree.
## What to search
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/warm-intro-finder@sha256:1ea1f953cf071d49The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260501.d9b6dfb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 30, 2026 and May 1, 2026, more than one a day.
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| git:20260501.d9b6dfb latest | 2026-05-01 | d9b6dfb | 10,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260430.344661e | 2026-04-30 | 344661e | 7,436 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10755 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4u6q2f2r53n6usft GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/warm-intro-finder GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ea1f953cf071d49a91e6aff9b99f5e5371da77bb77caa5d20e5cbc1d0128408
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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