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You send the approved emails yourself."],"method":["Start a chat with the agent. In Claude Code, add it as a skill or save it in .claude/agents, then ask it to prepare this week's batch.","The first time, give it your offer, your proof, your sender details and your prospects. It saves them in an outreach folder.","Paste last batch's numbers and any replies.","Read the batch. Approve what you want and send it from your own mailbox.","Run it again next week. It reads the log and changes one thing."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Read the folder","description":"Loads your offer, voice, log and do-not-contact list. On the first run it builds them from what you give it."},{"name":"Choose the path","description":"If emails bounced or drew complaints, it stops and fixes the setup. If replies are low it changes the angle. 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Leave unproven claims out or mark them.","Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone."],"pitfalls":["Sending, even when a mailbox is connected.","Changing the list, the angle and the offer in the same week. You cannot tell which one worked.","Judging a batch of ten emails.","Making up a reason a prospect fits.","Writing an email that works as a template with a name swapped in.","Generic copy that could fit any brand."],"quality":["No email states a fact about a prospect that is not in the list or the supplied text.","Every email has one ask and the sender details.","Nobody on the do-not-contact list is in the batch.","A batch after a bounce or complaint path was not written.","Only one thing changed since last week, and it is named.","CHECKS MISSED: name any check that failed, or write \"none\".","Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":11,"source":0,"area":"marketing"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You send cold emails every week and want each batch to learn from the last.","task":"Share the buyer, offer proof, sourced prospect facts, sender details and last batch results. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Who you write to, what you offer and your one ask","Your prospects, each with a fact about them and its source","Last batch's numbers: sent, bounced, replied, positive replies","A few emails you have sent and liked (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"The call this week","contains":"The path chosen, such as fix setup, change angle or tighten list, with the numbers behind it."},{"name":"Batch","contains":"A table of prospect, subject, body and check result, with only emails that passed."},{"name":"Dropped","contains":"Each prospect removed from the batch and the reason."},{"name":"Follow-ups due","contains":"Who needs which touch, the send date and a draft."},{"name":"Replies","contains":"Each reply sorted by type, with drafts for positive and not now ones."},{"name":"Setup changes to approve","contains":"Any change to mailbox, domain or volume that needs your yes."}]},"example":"Share the buyer, offer proof, sourced prospect facts, sender details and last batch results. 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Get matching accounts, fit reasons and verified contacts when available.","method":"prospect-list-builder","when":["You are starting outbound and need your first 100 targets.","You want to reach companies that show signs they are ready to buy.","You sell to local shops and need nearby leads.","Your last list had bad emails and bounced."],"inputs":["Description of your ideal customer","What you sell and who it helps","Region or industry","How many leads you want (optional, default 25)","Data tools you have access to (optional)"],"deliverables":["Qualified account list","Fit reason for each account","Contacts with an email status, verified only if you have a verifier tool","Tier or score for each lead"]},{"name":"Outreach writer in your voice","description":"Share writing samples, prospects and your goal. Get email drafts and follow-ups shaped by your style and supported facts.","method":"own-voice-outreach-writer","when":["You dislike how generic AI outreach sounds.","You have a list of prospects and want personal notes fast.","Your follow-ups feel stiff and get ignored.","A team member needs to send in your style."],"inputs":["Your prospects and context","Sent emails or three samples of your writing","What you want from each person","Mailbox access (optional)"],"deliverables":["A saved voice profile","Emails with a real, specific hook","Follow-ups in your tone","Subject line options"]},{"name":"Cold email writer","description":"Share your buyer, offer and proof. Get a cold email, follow-ups and sending guidance.","method":"cold-email-writer","when":["You are starting outbound sales and need your first sequence.","Your emails get opens but no replies.","You have a buyer list and a clear offer.","You need follow-ups that do not sound pushy."],"inputs":["Who you are writing to","Your offer and proof","The outcome you want","Research signals on the prospect (optional)"],"deliverables":["Cold emails to send","Follow-up messages","Subject line options","Sending setup advice"]},{"name":"Outbound email sequence writer","description":"Turn prospect details and your offer into email drafts with subject lines and suggested send timing.","method":"outbound-email-sequence-writer","when":["You have a list of prospects and nothing to send them.","Your cold emails get opens but no replies.","You target a new job title and need fresh messaging.","You want a follow-up plan, not one-off emails."],"inputs":["Target company type and person","Your offer and its main result","Proof points or case studies (optional)","Trigger events you can mention (optional)"],"deliverables":["A multi-step email series","Subject line options","Personal fields to fill in","A send schedule"]},{"name":"Cold email pre-send checker","description":"Check your cold email before you send it. 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Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","method":"website-brand-brain-builder","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"]},{"name":"Claude Hopkins","description":"Write specific ads or plan a small buyer test using Claude Hopkins’s recorded approach. Replace vague praise with facts and track cost per customer.","method":"claude-hopkins","when":["Rewrite a vague ad so every claim is specific and checkable","Write ten headlines that each pick out a different kind of buyer, ready to test","Plan a small test in a few places before you spend on a big launch","Work out cost per customer for an ad, not just cost per reply","Design a free sample or trial offer that only reaches interested people","Cut the clever, decorative parts of an ad that don't help it sell","Turn a boring product fact into a story about how carefully it is made","Check whether you are trying to change a habit that is too costly to change"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Claude Hopkins would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Claude Hopkins's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"cold-outreach-batch-runner","name":"Cold email batch writer","summary":"Read the last batch's results, choose one supported change and prepare checked emails and follow-ups for you to review and send.","task":"write-emails","kind":"agent","path":"/agents/cold-outreach-batch-runner","revision":"a3ac7d21fdc85f6b6b6e005b43ae38eac34a0d09ec1f7d4cb6960de9f536de0b","skillPath":"/skills/cold-outreach-batch-runner/SKILL.md","bundled":false,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"inbox-delivery-fixer","name":"Inbox delivery fixer","summary":"Share your sending domain. 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Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"cold-email-writer","name":"Cold email writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You are starting outbound sales and need your first sequence.","Your emails get opens but no replies.","You have a buyer list and a clear offer.","You need follow-ups that do not sound pushy."],"inputs":["Who you are writing to","Your offer and proof","The outcome you want","Research signals on the prospect (optional)"],"deliverables":["Cold emails to send","Follow-up messages","Subject line options","Sending setup advice"],"instruction":"skills/cold-email-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"d5b1e705f338623984a3e3efd0013448acdcda1b15d6e0a4f532672dbb13e326","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"outbound-email-sequence-writer","name":"Outbound email sequence writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a list of prospects and nothing to send them.","Your cold emails get opens but no replies.","You target a new job title and need fresh messaging.","You want a follow-up plan, not one-off emails."],"inputs":["Target company type and person","Your offer and its main result","Proof points or case studies (optional)","Trigger events you can mention (optional)"],"deliverables":["A multi-step email series","Subject line options","Personal fields to fill in","A send schedule"],"instruction":"skills/outbound-email-sequence-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"6946064f15b69d3e3c245aa3f091de39d52dfafe7eb916fabb62a029ac6b9810","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"cold-email-pre-send-checker","name":"Cold email pre-send checker","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You wrote a personalized opener and want to be sure it is accurate.","You are emailing a country with strict rules.","You claim a client result and need it checked.","A cold email feels long and you want it tighter."],"inputs":["The draft with subject and body","Text from the prospect's page","Proof for your claims (optional)","Sender and recipient countries (optional)"],"deliverables":["A claim-by-claim check","Legal basics notes","Flags on unproven statements","A tighter rewrite"],"instruction":"skills/cold-email-pre-send-checker/SKILL.md","revision":"7901d814b3d37061a1e62a2a029f20eb40778f4df620c9f2bae5bd8804936270","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"],"instruction":"skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"claude-hopkins","name":"Claude Hopkins","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Rewrite a vague ad so every claim is specific and checkable","Write ten headlines that each pick out a different kind of buyer, ready to test","Plan a small test in a few places before you spend on a big launch","Work out cost per customer for an ad, not just cost per reply","Design a free sample or trial offer that only reaches interested people","Cut the clever, decorative parts of an ad that don't help it sell","Turn a boring product fact into a story about how carefully it is made","Check whether you are trying to change a habit that is too costly to change"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Claude Hopkins would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Claude Hopkins's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/claude-hopkins/SKILL.md","revision":"cd496fadf5212b21de1a7268b49fd6e5eac8f894b44d31841a875f23c255d3c9","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Claude Code: It can keep the outreach folder, read the log and prepare a batch each week.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Your mailbox or sending tool: Export bounces and replies from here. You send the approved emails yourself.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-cold-outreach-batch-runner\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped cold email batch writer task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Cold email batch writer\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/cold-outreach-batch-runner · version 3\n\n## Remit\nShare the buyer, offer proof, sourced prospect facts, sender details and last batch results. You get the batch, results log and gaps.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- The call this week on what to fix, change or keep, with the numbers behind it\n- A batch of cold emails that passed the claim check, in a table\n- Follow-ups for people who have not replied, with timing\n- Replies sorted, with drafts for the ones worth answering\n- A log line and a do-not-contact list kept up to date\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Read the folder: Loads your offer, voice, log and do-not-contact list. On the first run it builds them from what you give it.\n2. Choose the path: If emails bounced or drew complaints, it stops and fixes the setup. If replies are low it changes the angle. If replies are not positive it tightens the list.\n3. Fill the list: Tops up prospects only when needed, keeping those with a stated reason and removing anyone already contacted or opted out.\n4. Write the emails: Writes in your voice if it has samples, each tied to a fact about the person. Follow-ups go to those who did not reply, up to four touches.\n5. Check and loop: Tests every claim against the text you supplied. A failed email is fixed and checked again, up to three rounds, then dropped.\n6. Sort replies and log: Sorts replies, adds unsubscribes to the do-not-contact list at once, drafts answers to the worthwhile ones, and logs the batch.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Sending, even when a mailbox is connected.\n- Changing the list, the angle and the offer in the same week. You cannot tell which one worked.\n- Judging a batch of ten emails.\n- Making up a reason a prospect fits.\n- Writing an email that works as a template with a name swapped in.\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You send cold emails every week and want each batch to learn from the last.\nGiven: Who you write to, what you offer and your one ask; Your prospects, each with a fact about them and its source; Last batch's numbers: sent, bounced, replied, positive replies; A few emails you have sent and liked (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- The call this week: The path chosen, such as fix setup, change angle or tighten list, with the numbers behind it.\n- Batch: A table of prospect, subject, body and check result, with only emails that passed.\n- Dropped: Each prospect removed from the batch and the reason.\n- Follow-ups due: Who needs which touch, the send date and a draft.\n- Replies: Each reply sorted by type, with drafts for positive and not now ones.\n- Setup changes to approve: Any change to mailbox, domain or volume that needs your yes.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- No email states a fact about a prospect that is not in the list or the supplied text.\n- Every email has one ask and the sender details.\n- Nobody on the do-not-contact list is in the batch.\n- A batch after a bounce or complaint path was not written.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with Claude Hopkins (skills/claude-hopkins/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You have no offer, no proof you can state, or only a few dozen prospects: write and send those by hand.\n- You want one email, not a weekly batch: use the Cold email writer.\n- You want to send without reading each email: this agent never sends, and you must approve every one.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/cold-outreach-batch-runner/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Cold email batch writer (primary): [complete method](../cold-outreach-batch-runner/SKILL.md), revision a3ac7d21fdc8\n- Inbox delivery fixer: [complete method](../inbox-delivery-fixer/SKILL.md), revision 726df66e76a1\n- Prospect account researcher: [complete method](../prospect-list-builder/SKILL.md), revision 559623e8e1f2\n- Outreach writer in your voice: [complete method](../own-voice-outreach-writer/SKILL.md), revision 11e580b90bee\n- Cold email writer: [complete method](../cold-email-writer/SKILL.md), revision d5b1e705f338\n- Outbound email sequence writer: [complete method](../outbound-email-sequence-writer/SKILL.md), revision 6946064f15b6\n- Cold email pre-send checker: [complete method](../cold-email-pre-send-checker/SKILL.md), revision 7901d814b3d3\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- Claude Hopkins (review lens): [complete method](../claude-hopkins/SKILL.md), revision cd496fadf521\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. 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