Cold Email Kickoff
The single entry point into the whole skill library. Instead of facing twenty skills with no idea where to start, this skill asks four situational questions (infrastructure, targeting clarity, cold email experience, goal), one at a time, plays back what it heard, then runs the right chain of skills and writes a one-page campaign plan. Ends with exactly one next command for your situation.
Pipeline Playbooks · Open Source, MIT Licensed
The guided start-here orchestrator: four questions asked one at a time, then it runs the right skills in order and hands off to the exact next step.
When to use this
- First invocation, never run cold email through this system
- Staring at the skill library with no idea where to start
- Picking back up after stopping mid-flow, e.g. during warmup
- Need the exact next skill for your current situation
What it covers
- The four situational questions: infra, targeting, experience, goal
- Playing back answers before running anything
- The strategy chain: ICP, offer framing, lead magnet, testing roadmap
- Writing the consolidated profiles/campaign-plan.md
- The handoff menu branching on infrastructure and list status
- Safeguards: never overwrite profile.yaml, never auto-purchase, never skip warmup
Install just this skill
Every skill folder is self-contained. Run this from your project root to pull just this one into .claude/skills/cold-email-kickoff/:
npx degit joelwylie7/cold-email-playbooks/.claude/skills/cold-email-kickoff .claude/skills/cold-email-kickoff
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Related skills
ICP Builder
A one-time conversational intake that scrapes your website, interviews you question by question, and writes profile.yaml, the single file every other skill in the system reads.
Offer Framing
The single highest-leverage skill in the system: decides what your cold email actually offers before a word of copy gets written, because copy cannot fix a bad offer.
Lead Magnet Builder
Builds a genuinely pay-worthy free asset and packages it as 'we just built X for COMPANY', the past-tense framing that outperforms every other cold email opener.