cold-email-writer

Cold Email Writer is a writing-assistance skill that helps job seekers compose personalized cold outreach emails to hiring managers, founders, and recruiters. It targets a specific problem the source calls out directly: cold emails fail when they read like cover letters or sales pitches. The skill's core principle is to make an email sound like a smart person who genuinely noticed something specific about a company, rather than a candidate broadcasting credentials, so the resulting message feels like a colleague sharing something interesting instead of a broadcast.

The skill provides a full template structure with concrete guidance for each part: a plain-name subject line, a specific opening hook drawn from the company's own materials, optional casual disclosure of an international location, a brief way to acknowledge an experience gap, a contextual body describing who the candidate is, a one-to-two-sentence connection to the role, a portfolio link, and a low-pressure closing. It contrasts good versus bad hooks, lists phrases to avoid (such as 'I look forward to hearing from you'), prescribes a research step before writing (company angle, recipient name, relevant projects, stack overlap), sets length guidelines of roughly 200-300 words, and specifies wrapping the final email in a plain code block for easy copy-paste, with a worked example.

It is aimed at candidates reaching out about roles they weren't referred to, people introducing themselves to companies they want to work at, and anyone who needs a specific, human intro email. It is a single-file SKILL.md focused purely on writing craft, useful to job seekers, career coaches, and anyone doing personalized professional outreach.