# suppress-hard-bounced

Identifies hard-bounced HubSpot contacts via API, generates CSV audit logs, and guides manual suppression.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 78
- Author: tomgranot
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suppress-hard-bounced/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/suppress-hard-bounced

## What it does

Permanent email delivery failures hurt domain sender standing with providers like Yahoo, Gmail, and Microsoft while eating into marketing contact subscription tiers. This skill handles contact list hygiene by scanning HubSpot records that have the `hs_email_hard_bounce_reason_enum` property set, sorting them by failure category, and flagging profiles with repeated delivery failures.

The workflow uses a four-phase structure: Plan, Before, Execute, and After. Running the discovery phase relies on `uv run scripts/before.py` and produces an audit file at `data/audit-logs/hard-bounced-contacts.csv`. Requirements include Python 3.10+, `uv`, and a `HUBSPOT_ACCESS_TOKEN` in `.env` granting `crm.objects.contacts.read`, `crm.lists.read`, and `crm.lists.write`.

Setting `hs_marketable_status` is blocked by HubSpot on the API level because that field is strictly read-only. API calls handle discovery and CSV exports, but the actual suppression switch requires Super Admin or Marketing Hub Admin permissions directly inside the HubSpot UI.

## Requirements
- Works with: HubSpot

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills --skill suppress-hard-bounced -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills --skill suppress-hard-bounced -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills --skill suppress-hard-bounced -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills suppress-hard-bounced
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/suppress-hard-bounced/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills --skill suppress-hard-bounced -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills --path skills/suppress-hard-bounced
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills --skill suppress-hard-bounced -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/TomGranot/hubspot-admin-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suppress-hard-bounced/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- audit permanently undeliverable contacts via the HubSpot API
- export hard-bounce metrics and categories to an audit CSV file
- isolate contacts with 3 or more bounces for deletion reviews
- prepare marketing contact lists for UI suppression workflows

## Example prompts
- Audit hard-bounced HubSpot contacts using suppress-hard-bounced
- Generate a CSV log of undeliverable emails from HubSpot
- Inspect hard bounce breakdown before updating marketable status in HubSpot

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: suppress-hard-bounced
description: "Identify and suppress hard-bounced contacts to protect email sender reputation. Hybrid approach: API for discovery and audit, manual UI for suppression (hs_marketable_status is read-only via API)."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: tomgranot
  version: "1.1"
  category: database-hygiene
---

# Suppress Hard-Bounced Contacts

## Purpose

Hard-bounced contacts have permanently undeliverable email addresses. Every email sent to them fails, wastes send volume, and actively damages sender reputation with ISPs like Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo. This skill identifies all hard-bounced contacts, exports an audit trail, creates a HubSpot active list for ongoing monitoring, and guides the user through manual suppression in the UI.

## Prerequisites

- A HubSpot service key (`HUBSPOT_ACCESS_TOKEN` in `.env`; an existing legacy private app token also works) with `crm.objects.contacts.read` and `crm.lists.read`/`crm.lists.write` scopes
- Python 3.10+ with `uv` for package management
- A `.env` file containing `HUBSPOT_ACCESS_TOKEN`
- Super Admin or Marketing Hub Admin permissions for the manual UI suppression step

## Scripts

Script paths are relative to this skill's directory. Run them from your project directory so `.env`, `data/`, and `reports/` resolve there: prefix each path with wherever this skill is installed (`skills/suppress-hard-bounced/` in a clone of the repo).

| Stage | Script | Run with |
|-------|--------|----------|
| Before | [`scripts/before.py`](./scripts/before.py) | `uv run scripts/before.py` |
| After | [`scripts/after.py`](./scripts/after.py) | `uv run scripts/after.py` |

There is no execute script: the marketing-status change itself must happen via a HubSpot workflow or the UI (see Key Constraint and Stage 3).

## Key Constraint

**`hs_marketable_status` is read-only via the API.** You cannot set a contact to non-marketing programmatically. The API is used for discovery, analysis, and audit trail generation. The actual suppression must happen in the HubSpot UI.

## Execution Pattern

This skill follows a 4-stage execution pattern: **Plan -> Before -> Execute -> After**.

### Stage 1: Plan

Before writing any code, confirm with the user:

1. **Understand the impact**: Suppressed contacts remain in the CRM but stop counting toward the marketing contact billing tier. They cannot receive marketing emails.
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