cold-outbound-optimizer SKILL.md skillA

cold-outbound-optimizer from ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills/cold-outbound-optimizer@git:20260331.64d5dd4

Pins git:20260331.64d5dd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills
Path
outbound-engine/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260331.64d5dd4, committed Mar 31, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 28, 2026
Size
6,932 bytes
Repository stars
3,784
License
MIT

Design, analyze, and optimize cold outbound email campaigns for Instantly. Handles end-to-end ICP definition, expert panel scoring (recursive to 90+), sequence copywriting, infrastructure audit, capacity planning, and implementation docs. Use when asked to build cold outbound sequences, optimize cold email, analyze outbound campaigns, build sales sequences, build Instantly sequences, create cold outbound strategies, or design email campaigns. Supports both "start from scratch" and…

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

## Preamble (runs on skill start)

```bash
# Version check (silent if up to date)
python3 telemetry/version_check.py 2>/dev/null || true

# Telemetry opt-in (first run only, then remembers your choice)
python3 telemetry/telemetry_init.py 2>/dev/null || true
```

> **Privacy:** This skill logs usage locally to `~/.ai-marketing-skills/analytics/`. Remote telemetry is opt-in only. No code, file paths, or repo content is ever collected. See `telemetry/README.md`.

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# Cold Outbound Optimizer

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## Startup: Determine Mode

Ask the user:
1. Do you have an **existing Instantly account** with campaigns to audit, or are you **starting from scratch**?
2. Do you have an **Instantly API key**? (Required for audit mode.)

If API key provided → run `scripts/instantly-audit.py` to pull campaigns, account inventory, and warmup scores before proceeding.

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## Phase 1: Discovery & Audit

### 1A — Infrastructure Check (if API key available)
Run `python3 scripts/instantly-audit.py --api-key <KEY>` and report:
- Active campaigns (name, status, reply rate, open rate)
- Sending accounts (count, warmup score, daily limit)
- Domain inventory
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills/cold-outbound-optimizer@sha256:d7e4d381b0256782

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260331.64d5dd4, 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 Mar 28, 2026 and Mar 31, 2026, about one every 4 days.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6932 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

GitHub

ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills · 3,784 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lp3qb22iejnt5te4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills/cold-outbound-optimizer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d7e4d381b0256782d75b2537afcdd142b4a5edd536199b9050fd5d9bb7d40be2

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