cold-email-craft SKILL.md skillA
cold-email-craft from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/cold-email-craft@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/cold-email-craft/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 6,926 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Write short, personalized B2B cold emails and follow-up copy - under 90 words, one ask, personalization in the first line - with good/bad contrast pairs to calibrate. Use when someone asks "write a cold email", "why is nobody replying to my outreach", "draft a follow-up sequence", "make this email shorter", or is starting founder-led outbound. Do NOT use for sending infrastructure, domains, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, warmup, or spam placement - use cold-email-deliverability instead; for multi-channel…
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 Craft
A cold email earns a reply by respecting the reader's time and making the next step trivial. The costly mistake this skill prevents is the 200-word "quick question" pitch that reads as mail-merge, burns the prospect, and teaches the founder that outbound doesn't work. Short beats clever; this skill owns the words. If the words are good but nothing lands in the inbox, the problem is infrastructure - route to cold-email-deliverability.
## Operating procedure
### Step 1: Gather inputs
1. Who is being emailed: role, company profile, and one concrete reason this person, now (a launch, a hire, a post, a funding event). If no reason exists, the list is not ready - route to prospect-list-builder.
2. The offer and the one result it produces, with a number from a comparable company. Default: if no customer result exists yet, use the founder's own before/after and label it as such.
3. The lowest-friction ask the sender can honor ("15-min call", "2-min Loom", "reply with yes/no").
4. Sequence length and channel mix already planned, if any (architecture belongs to outreach-sequence-designer; copy for each step belongs here).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/cold-email-craft@sha256:0c58ffb0dc3e2d8fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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_pbucii2i4sbrzwzn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 6,926 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 6,888 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 6,938 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pbucii2i4sbrzwzn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/cold-email-craft GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0c58ffb0dc3e2d8fdee82f897ec69d9ebfefea100017050c233c0a40d5b7207c
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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