Design and write email campaigns and sequences including onboarding flows, lifecycle campaigns, transactional emails, newsletters, and broadcast sends. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write email copy, plan an email sequence, design an onboarding drip, or set up lifecycle email campaigns. Triggers on email sequence, drip campaign, onboarding email, lifecycle email, welcome email, transactional email, newsletter, email broadcast, nurture sequence, abandoned cart, re-engagement, win-back. Also triggers when planning email automation flows or writing email subject lines for campaigns.
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Discovery
100%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is an excellent skill description that clearly defines its scope (email campaigns and sequences), lists specific concrete actions, provides explicit trigger guidance with a comprehensive list of natural user terms, and occupies a distinct niche. The description uses proper third-person voice and is well-structured with both a 'Use this skill whenever' clause and an explicit trigger term list.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'write email campaigns and sequences', 'onboarding flows', 'lifecycle campaigns', 'transactional emails', 'newsletters', 'broadcast sends', 'plan an email sequence', 'design an onboarding drip', 'writing email subject lines'. | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (design and write email campaigns, sequences, onboarding flows, lifecycle campaigns, etc.) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use this skill whenever...' clause plus a detailed 'Triggers on' list covering specific scenarios. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural terms users would say: 'email sequence', 'drip campaign', 'onboarding email', 'welcome email', 'abandoned cart', 're-engagement', 'win-back', 'nurture sequence', 'email subject lines', 'newsletter'. These are all terms users would naturally use when requesting this type of work. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Highly specific to email marketing campaigns and sequences with distinct trigger terms like 'drip campaign', 'abandoned cart', 'win-back', 'nurture sequence' that are unlikely to conflict with general copywriting or other marketing skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
77%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a well-structured, highly actionable email marketing skill with clear workflows and a useful output template. Its main weakness is length — it covers a lot of ground inline that could be split into reference files, and some content explains concepts Claude already understands (basic email marketing principles). The framework of 6 sequence types and 5 email components provides excellent structure for generating email campaigns.
Suggestions
Move the detailed 6 sequence types descriptions and the 5 email components section into reference files, keeping only a brief summary table in the main SKILL.md to improve conciseness and progressive disclosure.
Trim explanations of concepts Claude already knows, such as why mobile optimization matters, what transactional emails are, and why generic emails perform worse — state the rule without the rationale.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is generally well-written but includes some unnecessary explanation that Claude would already know (e.g., explaining what transactional emails are, that mobile opens are common, basic email marketing concepts). Some sections like 'The 5 components of every email' cover fundamentals that could be trimmed. However, it avoids the worst verbosity patterns and most content is instructive rather than explanatory. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides highly concrete, actionable guidance: specific email counts and timing (5 emails over 14 days), word count ranges per email type, character length guidelines for subject lines and preview text, a complete markdown output template, and step-by-step workflows for both sequences and broadcasts. The output format is copy-paste ready and the framework is immediately usable. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Both workflows (new sequence and single broadcast) are clearly sequenced with numbered steps, include testing/validation checkpoints (step 7: 'Send to yourself. Read on mobile. Time the gaps'), and end with measurement steps. The journey from trigger definition through drafting, testing, and measurement is logical and complete with no ambiguous steps. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill references two external files (subject-line-patterns.md and sequence-templates.md) which is good progressive disclosure, but the main SKILL.md itself is quite long (~300+ lines) with substantial inline content that could be offloaded to reference files (e.g., the detailed 6 sequence types framework, the 5 components section, failure patterns). The references are clearly signaled but no bundle files were provided to verify they exist. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 10 / 12 Passed |
Validation
90%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 10 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 10 / 11 Passed | |
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