cold-email-subject-line-testerlisted
Install: claude install-skill mbfinotti/sales-skills
# Subject Line Tester
Generate subject line variants from an already-chosen personalization angle, score them against a numeric rubric, and design a statistically honest split test to pick the winner.
Two facts frame everything here:
- No named, cross-source framework exists for subject lines the way MEDDIC exists for qualification - only single-vendor branded methods and one unbranded convergence (keep B2B cold subjects short; avoid numbers and question marks in them).
- Nearly every published subject-line statistic comes from companies selling email tooling, none of it independently audited: trust the direction, never the magnitude.
Where sources flatly contradict each other (notably lowercase vs. title case), treat the question as a test candidate, never a rule.
Scope: the subject line (plus preheader for B2C) is the whole deliverable.
Never:
- Write body copy.
- Audit deliverability, headers, domains, or authentication.
- Research prospect signals.
- Plan touch-by-touch cadence.
Flag spam-trigger vocabulary inside the subject itself as a scoring check, then hand the full inbox-placement review to `mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-email-deliverability`.
## Interview
Ask one question per message. Offer multiple-choice options. Skip anything already answered by context. If your harness has persistent memory and a prior run stored this user's answers, confirm them instead of re-asking.
1. Regime: B2B cold outbound, or B2C lifecycle/promotional? Ask this first - the two