cold-email-coach SKILL.md skillA
cold-email-coach 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/cold-email-coach@git:20260514.f5e2df1Pins git:20260514.f5e2df1 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/cold-email-coach/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260514.f5e2df1, committed May 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 30, 2026
- Size
- 3,830 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Drafts and critiques cold emails using Rachel Konrad's 10 rules, Heidi Roizen's mailing rules, and Danny Hertzberg's six elements. Use whenever the user is writing a cold email, LinkedIn DM, intro request, hiring-manager outreach, VC pitch email, or any unsolicited message to someone with more power than them. Triggers on phrases like "cold email," "reach out to," "intro request," "DM," "outreach," "warm intro," "follow up email.".
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
# Cold-email coach Source: `points/cold-email-rules.md` and `points/banned-jargon.md`. Read those first. ## What this skill does Given a draft (or a target + context), produce a cold email that survives the 15-second test: 1. Subject line that cannot be ignored 2. First sentence that tells them something they don't know 3. One specific story or "like you" hook 4. Picks one lane — does not dump a resume 5. Ends with a small, specific ask + an offer ## The philosophy in one line A cold email is a **pitch** for what you can do for them, not a request for what you want. *"Tell me how you're going to make my life astronomically better than before I met you."* ## Mode 1 — Draft from scratch If the user gives you a target + context, walk through the 10 rules **in order** before writing: 1. What do you know about this person? (LinkedIn, podcasts, recent news — name 3 specific facts) 2. What do they not know that you can tell them? (one-sentence thesis about their industry's future) 3. Subject line options — three candidates, all personal/timely/unusual 4. Mutual contacts — who can you name? 5. "Like you" — one specific, genuine comparison …
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How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/cold-email-coach@sha256:1c390848a66685cbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260514.f5e2df1, 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 14, 2026, about one every 14 days.
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| git:20260514.f5e2df1 latest | 2026-05-14 | f5e2df1 | 3,830 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260430.17cf7c5 | 2026-04-30 | 17cf7c5 | 3,447 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
kalyvask/winning-writing · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kqnu3xdwk22zbxrd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/cold-email-coach GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1c390848a66685cb0d6580e135e6785a2c19ab3701d16f64ee098cd15d6d7365
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