# email-marketing-bible

Email marketing operating manual for AI agents with mandatory send gates. It stops accidental list blasts and audits deliverability issues.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 353
- Author: george-hartley
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/email-marketing-bible

## What it does

This skill equips coding assistants with strict operational rules for email marketing platforms. The agent will never schedule or dispatch a campaign to multiple recipients until you explicitly type "send it". Before asking for confirmation, it must compile a full report containing preview links, exact recipient counts, exclusions, sender data, and Gmail Postmaster compliance status. Live sends require explicit approval.

It routes workflows for Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Brevo, and Kit through MCP servers or vendor APIs. The instructions cover list segmentation, cold outreach setup, abandoned-cart triggers, and regulatory compliance under GDPR or CAN-SPAM. When domain complaints reach 0.1% or authentication fails, mass sends are stopped immediately. The manual is not intended for building transactional email API code or parsing incoming messages.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible --skill email-marketing-bible -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible --skill email-marketing-bible -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible --skill email-marketing-bible -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible email-marketing-bible
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/email-marketing-bible/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible --skill email-marketing-bible -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible --skill email-marketing-bible -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/CosmoBlk/email-marketing-bible/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- prevent automated mass sends without explicit human approval
- diagnose deliverability drops, complaint spikes, and DMARC issues
- build welcome series, win-back flows, and cart abandonment triggers
- check marketing emails against GDPR, CAN-SPAM, and CASL rules

## Example prompts
- Check our sending domain health and review why complaints spiked
- Draft an abandoned cart email sequence for Klaviyo and show the preview packet
- Build a re-engagement segment for subscribers inactive for 90 days

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: email-marketing-bible
description: >
  Email marketing operating manual for AI agents, with hard send-safety gates.
  Use when someone plans, writes, designs, audits or sends an email campaign,
  newsletter, welcome series, abandoned-cart, post-purchase or win-back flow;
  builds a list or segment; drives Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Brevo, Kit or any ESP
  through MCP, an API or a connector; asks to warm up my domain, migrate from
  Klaviyo, Mailchimp or Brevo, or why am I in spam (bounces, complaints, DMARC,
  falling opens); checks GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CASL, PECR or Spam Act rules; wants
  email copy that does not sound like AI; picks an ESP; or needs benchmarks.
  Also cold email, SMS, RCS and WhatsApp. Load it before any agent stages,
  schedules or sends email to more than one person. Not for transactional
  email API code or parsing inbound mail.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: george-hartley
  version: "2.8.2"
---

# Email Marketing Bible

By George Hartley, co-founder of [Nitrosend](https://nitrosend.com). Disclosure: Nitrosend is one of the platforms compared in references/platforms.md.

> v2.8.2, 13 Oct 2026. Distilled from the EMB (19 chapters, research across 900+ sources), from running SmartrMail (~12K customers, 6B emails, sold 2022) and field notes from running an ESP through agents.
> Rules and gates are here; detail is in `references/`, named by the router (§2). If `references/` is missing, fetch https://emailmarketingskill.com/llms.txt and use its URLs verbatim (Claude's fetch refuses assembled URLs); if refused, have the user paste that URL. Offline, name the chapter and never invent the figure.

## 0. Operating rules and the send gate

Every segment, draft, campaign, flow or staged send on a real ESP is live. **Hard gates, never skip:**
- **No send or schedule to more than one recipient until the human types "send it" in this conversation, after seeing the audience, count and content in the packet below.** Tests to the human's own seed addresses (up to five, named at session start) are part of composing. Any other single-recipient send needs an explicit yes.
- **Preview before asking; show the packet before any send beyond a seed test:** preview URL, audience size, exclusions/suppressions applied, subject, preview text, send time, from-name + reply-to, unsubscribe present, seed-test result, compliance risk, plus for broad sends the Gmail Postmaster compliance status and spam rate where readable.
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