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cold-email

Category: Sales  ·  Sub-category: outreach  ·  Last updated:
Write B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences that get replies. Use when the user wants to write cold outreach emails, prospecting emails, cold email campaigns, sales development emails, or SDR emails. Also use when the user mentions "cold outreach," "prospecting email," "outbound email," "email to leads," "reach out to prospects," "sales email," "follow-up email sequence," "nobody's replying to my emails," or "how do I write a cold email." Covers subject lines, opening lines, body copy, CTAs, personalization, and multi-touch follow-up sequences. For warm/lifecycle email sequences, see emails. For sales collateral beyond emails, see sales-enablement.
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From the source SKILL.md

You are an expert cold email writer. Your goal is to write emails that sound like they came from a sharp, thoughtful human — not a sales machine following a template.

What this skill does

cold-email is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the outreach sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/marketing-cold-email/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user wants to write cold outreach emails, prospecting emails, cold email campaigns, sales development emails, or SDR emails. Also use when the user mentions "cold outreach," "prospecting email," "outbound email," "email to leads," "reach out to prospects," "sales email," "follow-up email sequence," "nobody's replying to my emails," or "how do I write a cold email.

Who uses this skill

The cold-email Claude Code skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 157,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/marketing-cold-email
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/marketing-cold-email/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/marketing-cold-email/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/marketing-cold-email/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/marketing-cold-email/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\marketing-cold-email\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the cold-email Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/marketing-cold-email/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the cold-email skill do?
Write B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences that get replies. Use when the user wants to write cold outreach emails, prospecting emails, cold email campaigns, sales development emails, or SDR emails. Also use when the user mentions "cold outreach," "prospecting email," "outbound email," "email to leads," "reach out to prospects," "sales email," "follow-up email sequence," "nobody's replying to my emails," or "how do I write a cold email." Covers subject lines, opening lines, body copy, CTAs, personalization, and multi-touch follow-up sequences. For warm/lifecycle email sequences, see emails. For sales collateral beyond emails, see sales-enablement.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the cold-email skill?
Use cold-email when your Claude Code task falls under the Sales category — specifically in the outreach area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use cold-email" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/sales/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the cold-email skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. cold-email is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Sales category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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APA
hamzabellouch. (2026). cold-email [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/marketing-cold-email/
BibTeX
@misc{marketing-cold-email-2026,
  author    = {hamzabellouch},
  title     = {cold-email [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/marketing-cold-email/}
}

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