# suede-emails

This skill designs multi-email flows: welcome, onboarding, nurture, win-back, post-purchase and trigger-based. Useful when you need the whole sequence, not one message.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 126
- Author: JasonColapietro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-emails/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/suede-emails

## What it does

The skill walks the agent through sequence type, audience context and goal first, then message roles, pacing and copy. Each type carries its own length and schedule: a welcome series of 5-7 emails over 12-14 days, nurture of 6-8 emails over 2-3 weeks, win-back of 3-4 emails across two weeks after 30-60 days of inactivity. Every email gets one job and one primary CTA.

Deliverability is checked against Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft sender rules, and a measurement plan comes with it. Templates live in `references/sequence-templates.md`; individual email types with their trigger, timing and copy pattern are in `references/email-types.md`. The skill also lists the filler lines a model reaches for on its own — “We're thrilled to have you aboard!”, “Just checking in”, “We miss you!” — and bans them in favour of naming what the reader actually did.

If `.agents/product-marketing.md` (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`) exists in the project, the skill reads it before asking anything and skips what is already covered there. Cold prospecting, SMS, in-product activation and lifecycle operations outside email sit with other skills, as the description states.

## Requirements
- Works with: Gmail

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-emails -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-emails -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-emails -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-emails
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/suede-emails/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-emails -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --path skills/suede-emails
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-emails -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/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-emails/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a welcome series with a schedule and clear roles
- write a pre-sale nurture flow
- win back inactive subscribers or clean the list
- check email copy against Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft sender rules
- replace filler lines like “Just checking in” with specifics

## Example prompts
- Design a 5-email welcome sequence for new signups
- Build a win-back flow for people who haven't opened in 45 days
- Check this sequence against Gmail and Microsoft deliverability rules

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Suede AI Lifecycle Email Systems

Design lifecycle email as a consent-aware system of triggers, message roles, pacing, and measurable next actions. Create sequences that move a known audience toward value without inventing intent, exhausting the list, or confusing lifecycle messaging with cold outreach.

## Initial Assessment

**Check for product marketing context first:**
If `.agents/product-marketing.md` exists (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`, or the legacy `product-marketing-context.md` filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before creating a sequence, understand:

1. **Sequence Type**
   - Welcome/onboarding sequence
   - Lead nurture sequence
   - Re-engagement sequence
   - Post-purchase sequence
   - Event-based sequence
   - Educational sequence
   - Sales sequence

2. **Audience Context**
   - Who are they?
   - What triggered them into this sequence?
   - What do they already know/believe?
   - What's their current relationship with you?
   - What other emails are they already receiving?
   - What's the current email performance to beat?

3. **Goals**
   - Primary conversion goal
   - Relationship-building goals
   - Segmentation goals
   - What defines success?

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## Core Principle

One email, one job: a single purpose and a single primary CTA per email. Everything downstream, sequence length, roles, copy, follows from that.

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## Email Sequence Strategy

Sequence lengths are set per type in Sequence Types Overview below; use those numbers, not a generic range. Adjust for sales-cycle length, product complexity, and relationship stage.

### Timing/Delays
- Welcome email: Immediately
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