email-deliverability SKILL.md skillA

email-deliverability from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/email-deliverability@git:20260729.9b4d66a

Pins git:20260729.9b4d66a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ericrisco/rsc-harness
Path
skills/email-deliverability/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260729.9b4d66a, committed Jul 29, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 2, 2026
Size
9,087 bytes
Repository stars
236
License
MIT

Use when mail already sent lands in spam, is rejected, or fails the Gmail/Yahoo bulk-sender checks and the fix is authentication and reputation, not the sending code: SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment, domain warmup, spam-complaint rate, one-click unsubscribe, BIMI. NOT putting mail on the wire through a provider API (that is `email-connector`).

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

# email-deliverability — make mail authenticate and land in the inbox

This skill owns one layer: **why mail you already send gets filtered, deferred,
or rejected, and the DNS + reputation work that fixes it.** It starts where the
send technically succeeds but the message never reaches the inbox.

The lever is almost never the sending code. It is three DNS records that must
*align*, a complaint rate you must hold down, and a reputation you build slowly
and lose fast. Treat this as ops on a domain, not a code change.

## Not this skill

- **Sending the mail at all** — provider SDK, `sendEmail()` seam, templates,
  retries, batch caps, bounce/complaint webhooks → `../email-connector/SKILL.md`.
  That skill feeds the suppression list; this one explains the reputation it
  protects.
- **Subject lines, open/click optimization, list growth** → `newsletter`.
- **Outbound prospecting sequences, lead lists** → `cold-outreach` (deliverability
  is a *constraint* on it, not the same job).
- **Consent, lawful basis, retention of the address list** → `gdpr-privacy` and
  `data-policy`. Unsubscribe *mechanics* live here; consent *law* does not.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/email-deliverability@sha256:cd108ba466a5a369

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.9b4d66a, 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 Jun 2, 2026 and Jul 29, 2026, about one every 57 days.

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git:20260729.9b4d66a latest2026-07-29 9b4d66a 9,087 BA view · diff
git:20260602.004e38d2026-06-02 004e38d 10,763 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9087 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

ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m7bztxnnyd5xcn6q
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/email-deliverability
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cd108ba466a5a3697f5c323b130b9fe19d7c3bddc028eae3dff56306d8c7dca0

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