# ai-cold-outreach

A skill that walks your agent through cold outreach end to end: signals, enrichment, personalization, sequencing, sending, follow-ups. Useful when you need a system, not one email.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 84
- Author: chadboyda
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-02-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ai-cold-outreach

## What it does

The skill lays out cold outreach as a six-stage pipeline: signal detection, contact enrichment, personalization, sequencing, sending, and follow-ups. Your agent follows that structure and tells you what belongs at each stage.

Inside you get a signal table with sources and timing windows, a waterfall enrichment model where providers run in order and stop at the first verified address, and a priority list of data to collect per contact. Clay, Instantly and Smartlead come up as the tools for the job.

Before anything gets built, the skill asks for your ICP, volume targets, current tools, budget and compliance constraints. Skip the ICP and you burn domains on sends that never land, so the agent asks first and designs after.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills --skill ai-cold-outreach -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ai-cold-outreach/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills --skill ai-cold-outreach -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills --skill ai-cold-outreach -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills ai-cold-outreach
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills --skill ai-cold-outreach -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills --path skills/ai-cold-outreach
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills --skill ai-cold-outreach -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/chadboyda/agent-gtm-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ai-cold-outreach/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- stand up a cold outreach system from scratch
- set up waterfall enrichment across several data providers
- fix deliverability and keep bounces down
- write personalized opening lines for a segment
- design a multi-step sequence with follow-ups

## Example prompts
- Help me build a cold outreach system for a B2B SaaS product, I'll describe the ICP next
- Set up a contact enrichment chain: Apollo first, Hunter if it comes up empty, then ZoomInfo
- Draft a four-email sequence with personalization for each step

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