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Email & lifecycle skill · v0.2.0

Email sequences skill

Welcome, nurture, launch and re-engagement sequences with subject lines and copy in the brand voice.

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
Email & lifecycle
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,846 words
Version
v0.2.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Email sequences skill file

cmo-email-sequences/SKILL.md1,846 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-email-sequences
description: Welcome, nurture, launch and re-engagement sequences with subject lines and copy in the brand voice.
---

Designs and writes automated email sequences for people who opted in: welcome, lead nurture, product onboarding, launch, re-engagement and post-purchase. Each email has one job and one call to action, the sequence earns trust before it asks, and every word sounds like the brand. CMO.so supplies the business profile Maggie writes from, so the emails match the blog and LinkedIn voice, and can store the sequence's destination pages as calls-to-action for Maggie to link to.

When to use

  • Building a new sequence, rewriting a weak one, or auditing which lifecycle emails are missing.
  • After a lead magnet, signup, purchase or long silence.
  • Subject lines and preview text that are not getting opened.
  • Not for: cold outreach to people who never opted in (use cmo-cold-email), cancel flows, failed-payment emails and win-back of cancelled customers (use cmo-churn-prevention), a recurring newsletter (use cmo-newsletter), text messages (use cmo-sms-whatsapp).
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Adapts open work by alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT), irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none), zubair-trabzada/ai-marketing-claude (MIT), dittofeed/dittofeed (MIT), frappe/erpnext (GPL-3.0), mautic/mautic (GPL-3.0), mjmlio/mjml (MIT), Notifuse/notifuse (BUSL-1.1), resend/react-email (MIT).

Everyday usage

How people use Email sequences day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

Most common · also on the Email & lifecycle page

Write a welcome sequence

A series of emails with subject lines and copy that turns new subscribers into customers.

Ask your agentWrite a 5-email welcome sequence for new subscribers to my yoga studio.
  • A sequence map: trigger, goal, emails, timing, branches and exit conditions
  • Every email written in full: subject, preview text, body, CTA
  • A metrics and test plan; optionally the sequence's landing pages saved as CMO.so calls-to-action

More things to ask

  • Write a welcome email sequence
  • We need a nurture sequence for our lead magnet
  • Plan launch emails
  • Re-engage subscribers who stopped clicking
  • Write onboarding emails for new users
  • Improve our email subject lines
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • The business profile (from `brand_get`) or a short description of product, buyer and voice
    • What triggers the sequence and the one action it should lead to
    • Proof available: results, testimonials, case studies (real ones)
    • Current email performance and the other emails these people already receive
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • A sequence map: trigger, goal, emails, timing, branches and exit conditions
    • Every email written in full: subject, preview text, body, CTA
    • A metrics and test plan; optionally the sequence's landing pages saved as CMO.so calls-to-action
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpEmail sequences skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Email sequences skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Email sequences skill?

Welcome, nurture, launch and re-engagement sequences with subject lines and copy in the brand voice.

It's one of cmo.so's open Email & lifecycle skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Write a welcome email sequence”, “We need a nurture sequence for our lead magnet”, “Plan launch emails”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with the business profile (from `brand_get`) or a short description of product, buyer and voice; what triggers the sequence and the one action it should lead to; proof available: results, testimonials, case studies (real ones); and current email performance and the other emails these people already receive.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get a sequence map: trigger, goal, emails, timing, branches and exit conditions; every email written in full: subject, preview text, body, CTA; and a metrics and test plan; optionally the sequence's landing pages saved as CMO.so calls-to-action.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-email@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Email & lifecycle group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

With cmo.so connected it can go further, using tools such as brand_get, cta_upsert through the MCP server. Every change is previewed and confirmed before it happens.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Lead magnets; Retention & churn prevention; and Email deliverability. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: alirezarezvani/claude-skills (MIT); irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none); and zubair-trabzada/ai-marketing-claude (MIT).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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