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twilio-sendgrid-email-send

Send transactional and bulk email via the SendGrid v3 Mail Send API. Covers single sends, personalized batch sends with dynamic templates, scheduled sends with cancellation, attachments, and sandbox mode for testing. Use this skill when the caller has a SendGrid API key (SG.-prefix). Do NOT use this skill if the caller is using the Twilio Email API (comms.twilio.com) — that is a separate product with different credentials.

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Content

82%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A lean, high-signal reference: executable dual-language examples, a strong CANNOT section of real gotchas, and explicit safety checkpoints for irreversible batch sends. The scheduled-send example is incomplete, and error-recovery guidance beyond the 413 note is absent.

Suggestions

Complete the scheduled-send Python example so it actually builds and sends the message with batch_id and send_at, rather than leaving '# Include batch_id and send_at in the message' as a comment placeholder.

Add a short error-recovery loop for failed sends (e.g., on 4xx: check the JSON error payload's `errors` array, fix the request, retry; on 413: check Content-Type for the nginx HTML page as already noted).

Move the extended per-task details (scheduled sends lifecycle, categories/custom args, subject-override behavior) into a reference file and keep SKILL.md as a tighter overview.

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Conciseness

The body contains no concept explainers or padding — every section is executable code, a hard limit, or a real failure mode (e.g., 'Undefined template variables render as empty strings'), assuming Claude's competence throughout.

5 / 5

Actionability

Basic, batch, and attachment sends are copy-paste ready in both Python and Node.js with real endpoints and limits, but the scheduled-send Python snippet never constructs or sends the message — it relies on comment placeholders ('# Include batch_id and send_at in the message').

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The irreversible batch operation is gated by an explicit checkpoint ('Always confirm recipients, subject, and content with the user before sending'), plus sandbox-mode validation and status-code semantics (202 queued vs 200), but there is no explicit validate→fix→retry loop for failures.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized per-task sections with clear navigation and a 'Next Steps' cross-skill pointer, all content at one level with no nested references; slightly more than a minimal overview (~170 lines of per-task API detail) keeps it below the ideal split.

4 / 5

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Description

92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: concrete capability list, explicit trigger guidance keyed to the API-key credential, and an explicit disambiguation boundary against the Twilio Email API. The only gap is a few missing natural trigger synonyms.

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Specificity

The description enumerates concrete, distinct capabilities — 'single sends, personalized batch sends with dynamic templates, scheduled sends with cancellation, attachments, and sandbox mode for testing' — with no vague filler, matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor.

5 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both 'what' (SendGrid v3 Mail Send API with the listed capabilities) and 'when' ('Use this skill when the caller has a SendGrid API key (SG.-prefix)'), plus a concrete negative boundary.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good natural keyword coverage ('transactional', 'bulk email', 'SendGrid', 'batch sends', 'attachments', 'SG.-prefix'), but a few common user phrasings are missing (e.g., 'send an email', 'email campaign', 'mailing list'), so it sits just below the comprehensive-synonyms anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Clear niche with minimal conflict risk — the explicit 'Do NOT use this skill if the caller is using the Twilio Email API (comms.twilio.com)' clause distinguishes it from the closest competing skill.

5 / 5

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Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository

openai/plugins

Path

plugins/twilio-developer-kit/skills/twilio-sendgrid-email-send/SKILL.md

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