cold-email-engagement-first-outreach

name	Cold Email Engagement-First Outreach
catalog_line	Plan, draft, audit, and route cold outreach to strangers: campaigns, single emails, reply handling.
description	Root skill for planning, drafting, auditing, and routing cold outreach to strangers across B2B sales, founder-led outreach, investor fundraising, recruiting, partnerships, PR, podcasts, and customer research. Use when the user needs a campaign bundle, one targeted email, reply handling, or a trust-preserving outreach operating workflow.
skill_type	orchestration
altitude	domain
activation	progressive
preserve_markdown	true
dependencies	[{"id":"cold_email_icp_signal_design","owns":"The right person, persona, timing signal, and disqualifier set; the segment definition and signal rubric before outreach."},{"id":"cold_email_offer_lab","owns":"Creating or repairing the artifact offer and the smallest useful yes."},{"id":"cold_email_research_anchors","owns":"Mining one specific, real, recent anchor and bridge for strategic or single-target outreach."},{"id":"cold_email_outreach_compiler","owns":"Compiling prepared mode, segment, anchor, offer, proof, and sender constraints into a finished outreach bundle."},{"id":"cold_email_taste_review","owns":"Reputation-risk review, bridge quality, proof integrity, and whether a serious person should send the draft."},{"id":"cold_email_deliverability_readiness","owns":"Sender trust, cold-domain readiness, volume caps, warmup, bounce risk, and complaint safeguards."},{"id":"cold_email_reply_os","owns":"Classifying replies, routing objections, reviving silence, and preserving trust after response."},{"id":"cold_email_learning_review","owns":"Turning campaign metrics, objections, and buyer language into next tests."}]
legacy_paths	["cold_email_outreach","cold-email-engagement-first-outreach","sales-and-growth/cold-email-engagement-first-outreach","growth.cold_email.skill","docs/research/youtube-library/skill-drafts/cold-email-engagement-first-outreach/SKILL.md"]
child_skills	[{"id":"cold_email_icp_signal_design","name":"Cold Email ICP and Signal Design","summary":"Deep child skill for defining the right person, right moment, segment, buying signal, and disqualifiers before outreach.","when_to_load":["When the target list, ICP, persona, or timing signal is vague, mixed, or untested."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_icp_signal_design/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_offer_lab","name":"Cold Email OfferLab","summary":"Deep child skill for creating or repairing the artifact offer and smallest useful yes.","when_to_load":["When the user has no offer, has a meeting-first offer, or needs to design a free useful artifact."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_offer_lab/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_research_anchors","name":"Cold Email Research Anchors","summary":"Deep child skill for mining one specific, real, recent anchor and bridge for strategic or single-target outreach.","when_to_load":["When strategic, single-target, investor, recruiting, PR, podcast, or partnership outreach needs stronger research."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_research_anchors/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_outreach_compiler","name":"Cold Email Outreach Compiler","summary":"Deep child skill for compiling prepared mode, segment, anchor, offer, proof, and sender constraints into a finished outreach bundle.","when_to_load":["When the inputs are ready and the user wants a finished email, campaign bundle, or audit rewrite."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_outreach_compiler/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_taste_review","name":"Cold Email Taste Review","summary":"Deep child skill for reputation-risk review, bridge quality, proof integrity, and whether a serious person should send the draft.","when_to_load":["When a draft may be generic, pushy, over-automated, weakly bridged, or reputation-risky."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_taste_review/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_deliverability_readiness","name":"Cold Email Deliverability Readiness","summary":"Deep child skill for sender trust, cold-domain readiness, volume caps, warmup, bounce risk, and complaint safeguards.","when_to_load":["When sending at scale, using cold domains, or diagnosing low opens, bounces, spam placement, or complaint risk."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_deliverability_readiness/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_reply_os","name":"Cold Email Reply OS","summary":"Deep child skill for classifying replies, routing objections, reviving silence, and preserving trust after response.","when_to_load":["When a reply arrives, a thread goes quiet, objections are expected, or the user needs reply-to-call handling."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_reply_os/SKILL.md"},{"id":"cold_email_learning_review","name":"Cold Email Learning Review","summary":"Deep child skill for turning campaign metrics, objections, and buyer language into next tests.","when_to_load":["When a campaign or test has results and the user needs to decide stop, iterate, recycle, or scale."],"path":"apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_learning_review/SKILL.md"}]
reference_modules	[{"id":"cold_email_engagement_first_outreach.public_mode_router","name":"Public Outreach Mode Router","summary":"Portable public routing guide for choosing the right cold-outreach mode, required inputs, child skill handoffs, and output shape.","when_to_load":["When using the portable bundle outside BuildOS.","When the task needs a fast decision between campaign, strategic-account, single-target, investor, recruiting, PR, partnership, or customer-research outreach modes."],"path":"references/public-mode-router.md","visibility":"public"},{"id":"cold_email_engagement_first_outreach.source_map","name":"Cold Email Source Map","summary":"Runtime source map for the cleaned source corpus, foundational source layers, tactical gap-fill sources, and local research lineage.","when_to_load":["When the agent needs provenance, source conflicts, or links to deeper research documents."],"path":"references/source-map.md","visibility":"internal"},{"id":"cold_email_engagement_first_outreach.internal_os","name":"Internal Outreach Operating System","summary":"Internal blueprint for right person -> right moment -> right reason -> right offer -> right ask -> right follow-up.","when_to_load":["When designing the broader market-learning and relationship-starting operating system, not just one email."],"path":"references/internal-operating-system.md","visibility":"internal"},{"id":"cold_email_engagement_first_outreach.skill_architecture","name":"Internal Skill Architecture","summary":"Internal map for separating root skills, child skills, and tangential relationship-building skills.","when_to_load":["When building or reorganizing nested outreach skills."],"path":"references/internal-skill-architecture.md","visibility":"internal"},{"id":"cold_email_engagement_first_outreach.child_skill_source_plan","name":"Child Skill Source Plan","summary":"Internal guide for sourcing and deepening the cold email child skills with real source material.","when_to_load":["When another agent is assigned to flesh out a cold email child skill with source-backed detail."],"path":"references/child-skill-source-plan.md","visibility":"internal"},{"id":"cold_email_engagement_first_outreach.source_acquisition_queue","name":"Source Acquisition Queue","summary":"Internal corpus status and remaining queue for experts, books, sites, videos, and official documents behind the full cold email architecture.","when_to_load":["When an agent needs to collect or assign source materials for deepening the cold email architecture."],"path":"references/source-acquisition-queue.md","visibility":"internal"}]
path	apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/cold_email_engagement_first_outreach/SKILL.md

Cold Email Engagement-First Outreach

Identity

Root skill for trust-preserving cold outreach. This is an orchestration skill at domain altitude: it chooses the send-mode, runs the operating sequence, and routes weak inputs to eight deep child skills — it does not re-teach their mechanics. What lives only here, owned nowhere else, is the operating sequence, the north-star metric, the mode taxonomy, and the trust-preserving guardrails.

Activation

• Plan or audit a cold email campaign
• Draft one high-value targeted cold email
• Choose between high-volume, strategic-account, single-target, reply-revival, investor, recruiting, PR, podcast, partnership, or customer-research modes
• Diagnose low opens, low replies, bad-fit replies, poor meeting conversion, objections, or deliverability risk
• Design the outreach operating workflow before sending
• Decide which child skill should handle a weak input such as ICP, signal, offer, research, taste, deliverability, reply handling, or learning review

Judgment

The operating sequence is:

right person -> right moment -> right reason -> right offer -> right ask -> right follow-up

The north star is qualified conversations started per unit of market trust consumed.

Procedure

Ordered sequence and intent only. Who owns each routed step's deep mechanics is in Routing, referenced by the → marker. Steps marked [here] are owned by this skill.

1. Choose exactly one mode from the mode taxonomy (see Knowledge). [here]
2. Check the prime flow in order: right person, right moment, right reason, right offer, right ask, right follow-up (see Judgment). [here]
3. Route to a child skill only if a specific input is missing or weak (see Routing). Do not load children automatically. [here]
4. Verify sender trust before any scaled sending. If deliverability is unknown, recommend manual or low-volume sending only. → cold_email_deliverability_readiness
5. Segment volume campaigns to one persona x one narrowing signal. Reject mixed lists. → cold_email_icp_signal_design
6. Require a specific research anchor and bridge for strategic, single-target, investor, recruiting, PR, podcast, partnership, and relationship-sensitive outreach. → cold_email_research_anchors
7. Prefer a useful artifact offer over a meeting ask: note, teardown, benchmark, signal report, sample, snapshot, deck, topic angles, or candidate slate. →