Cold outreach

Prepare one useful first contact, not a campaign or an email transport. Reuse supplied prospect research, approved offer facts, brand-voice and taste-profile context. The calling application selects that workspace context; this skill never searches global memory or a private credential database.

prepare admits the evidence and writing context through ghostwrite#admit and checks the supplied contact-policy disposition and suppression state. Only then does it take one writing turn of its own, which ghostwrite#verify binds to the admitted evidence before review. A matched lead, public address or good commercial fit does not establish contact permission. Unknown eligibility, suppression, missing policy evidence or an unsupported draft produces a hold. No approval, delivery or provider acknowledgement is implied.

Composes

• ghostwrite#admit
• ghostwrite#verify

Outreach judgment

Find a specific, public or disclosure-approved reason this offer relates to the recipient's work. Prefer an observed change, relevant problem or request to a generic compliment. If the same rationale fits every company, narrow it or hold for better evidence. An uncertain need is a question or hypothesis, not a claim about their internal problems, budget, tools or authority.

Offer a concrete useful result or small next step. Use current supported proof; voice and taste cannot approve factual claims. Start around 60–120 words in short paragraphs, excluding the supplied identity and opt-out footer. Adapt that length to the offer. Lead with relevance, explain value plainly and make one simple ask.

Use a truthful subject and plain text. No fake Re: or Fwd:, invented familiarity, metrics, urgency, exaggerated praise, tracking tricks or private personal details. Keep internal citations and reasoning in the review artifact. The exact footer must appear unchanged in the body. If the evidence does not support a worthwhile angle, return needs_more_evidence instead of producing generic sales copy.

Composition and result

Use lead-enrichment for missing facts and lead-qualify for fit; neither is mandatory when adequate evidence is supplied. If qualification is supplied, bind prospect.ref to its exact subject; a hold or mismatched subject stops drafting even when other contact inputs are eligible. research supplies the validated evidence packet. audience names the reader segment the prospect belongs to. Brand and taste packets apply only when their declared scope names that audience and the email channel, and they keep their structured profiles, evidence bindings and stop conditions through ghostwrite's admission.

The result includes an outreach_review with the exact sender, recipient and draft status. A ready result includes the exact subject/body and the native digest of its validated ghostwrite source packet; a hold exposes no usable email payload. Route the ready payload through a compatible mail capability. Delivery admission must bind sender, recipient and complete content to native approval and provider execution.

The calling application retains the draft and outcomes. Follow-ups require a fresh conversation and suppression read, add something useful, and stay within the user's configured limit. Reply ends the cold sequence; opt-out, complaint or invalid address stops it. Out-of-office is not buying interest. This skill owns no timer, queue or send ledger. Each outward message still follows the configured approval policy.

Agent task contract

cold-outreach-draft

Write one first-contact email from sender to prospect that serves purpose, following the outreach judgment above. offer is the value to propose; support it only as far as the admitted evidence_context allows. Apply each admitted writing context's profile, applicability and stop conditions.

Return content_draft with decision set to ready, or to needs_more_evidence when no worthwhile angle is supported. content_brief repeats the evidence context's objective, audience and channel exactly. draft.title is the subject and draft.body the plain-text email, with required_footer unchanged. draft.claim_refs cites admitted source digests for every material claim. Add a review checklist and distribution notes, and list in context_binding.applied each admitted context's packet_digest with only the applied_rules you used. Never send, schedule or claim delivery.