Use Case
YC Cold Outreach isn't just for solo use β teams can share skills and build consistent AI workflows across the organization. Expert in Y Combinator (YC) cold email outreach techniques based on Startup School principles. Use to draft, critique, or iterate on cold emails to potential customers, partners, or investors. Based on Aaron Epstein's methodology for high-conversion outreach. This guide covers how to deploy YC Cold Outreach for your team, standardize prompts, and create shared workflows that everyone can use.
Install YC Cold Outreach in your project directory: .claude/skills/yc-cold-outreach/
Commit the skill folder to your repository so the whole team has access
Document your team's standard prompts in a shared README
Use YC Cold Outreach in code reviews, standups, and planning sessions
Iterate: collect feedback from the team and refine your prompts
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing YC Cold Outreach
How can my team use YC Cold Outreach together?
Set up YC Cold Outreach for our project so everyone can use it
Create a shared workflow using YC Cold Outreach for our team
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install yc-cold-outreachOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install yc-cold-outreachβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/yc-cold-outreach/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.