Cold Outreach Generator — Development skill for Claude Code

Cold Outreach Generator (Claude Skill)

A culturally-aware cold outreach generator for Claude. It writes LinkedIn messages, other short messenger outreach, and emails for any professional outreach goal — job-seeking, partnerships or sales, referral asks, or just making a genuine connection — while adapting address forms, greetings, and closing phrases to the recipient's cultural code instead of using one generic template for everyone.

Why this exists

Most AI-generated outreach messages sound the same regardless of who they're for: same em dashes, same "hope this finds you well," same vague "happy to connect if of interest" closer. This skill encodes a set of rules learned from real outreach messages that actually got replies (and a few that didn't), including:

• Cultural address rules for Chinese and Korean recipients (correct honorifics, mandatory formal speech level in Korean, traditional cooperation-closing phrases), with a sensible Western-formal default when no cultural context is given.
• Goal-specific structure — sales/partnership pitches, job/referral asks, and pure networking messages each follow a different shape, because a good cold email to a hiring manager looks nothing like a good pitch to a partnerships director.
• A banned-phrase list for generic AI-sounding filler (em dashes, vague "let's jump on a call"-style closers, invented industry benchmarks when no real proof point exists, apologetic openers).
• Relationship-to-company framing — the message reads differently depending on whether the sender works at the company, represents it on behalf of someone else, or is just making an unaffiliated recommendation.

What's in this repo

cold-outreach-generator/
├── SKILL.md                          # Main skill instructions
└── references/
    ├── cultural_norms.md             # Address forms & closing-phrase banks
    └── good_and_bad_examples.md      # Annotated real examples

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