recipient-research SKILL.md skillA
recipient-research 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/recipient-research@git:20260430.41d65aaPins git:20260430.41d65aa 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/recipient-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260430.41d65aa, committed Apr 30, 2026
- Size
- 4,844 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Builds a research dossier on a cold-outreach target before drafting. Pulls LinkedIn, podcasts, blog posts, news, portfolio (if VC), and any specific personal details that would let an email feel hand-written rather than templated. Use when the user says "I want to email X" or "research Y before I write to them" or "build a dossier on Z." Triggers on "research," "dossier," "before I email," "background on," "find out about.".
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
# Recipient research Source: `points/cold-email-rules.md` (rule 1 — know something about the person and exploit it). ## Why this exists Konrad's first rule of cold outreach: **research is non-negotiable.** People drop personal details in 20-minute podcast interviews. Recent blog posts. Portfolio company pages. Conference talks. The specificity is what separates a real email from a template. You have 15 seconds when the recipient opens your email. Three concrete personal details earn those 15 seconds. A LinkedIn summary doesn't. ## What to find For every cold-email target, build a dossier with these sections: ### 1. Public role and trajectory - Current title and company - Last 2–3 roles and how long they stayed (signals: founder vs. operator, builder vs. acquirer) - The pivot points — what made them leave each role, what made them join the next - Anything they've publicly said about *why* they're at the current job ### 2. Public writing and speaking - Substack, Medium, personal blog, company blog - Podcasts they've appeared on (especially long-form — 60+ minutes) - Conference talks on YouTube - Twitter/X — pinned tweets, recent threads …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kalyvask/winning-writing/recipient-research@sha256:798532d9433dc543The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260430.41d65aa, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mthq472ga7nl5owh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 30, 2026.
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 (4844 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_mthq472ga7nl5owh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalyvask/winning-writing/recipient-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/798532d9433dc543aa674e56b0428deee3d9f109777e1bdce6f8b663df788bfe
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.