# Design a lifecycle email sequence

Email teams often lack a clear lifecycle map and send too frequently. This skill creates flow plans with timing, exits, and safeguards before copywriting begins.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add aaron-he-zhu/email-sequence-designer
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: aaron-he-zhu-email-sequence-designer
- Version: 19.0.0
- Author version: 19.0.0
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: valid
- Tree hash: 4d5af6fa0b9b840f3d0b3934aa5a91e1c0962b4069f9bcc95a24bba3e8a96790
- Author: aaron-he-zhu
- GitHub username: aaron-he-zhu
- License: Apache-2.0
- Repository: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/main/email/nurture/email-sequence-designer
- Ref: adcb3549b15782055d0beb6d29f113d20de08f92
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network, filesystem, env\_access
- Quality score: 81
- Quality tier: silver
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/aaron-he-zhu-email-sequence-designer
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/aaron-he-zhu-email-sequence-designer/manifest

## Capabilities

- Maps welcome, cart, browse-abandon, post-purchase, re-engagement, and cold-outbound flows.
- Defines triggers, delays, goals, branches, and exit conditions for each flow.
- Sets global send caps, quiet hours, and fatigue guardrails.
- Creates an engagement-decay and sunset path for inactive recipients.
- Produces a SEND N dimension score with notes for lifecycle coverage.
- Prepares a handoff summary for email copywriting and quality review.

## Use Cases

- Plan a welcome journey: Create a triggered onboarding sequence with progressive goals, timing, and exits for new subscribers.
- Reduce abandoned-cart friction: Design a cart recovery flow with discount branches, purchase exits, and frequency limits.
- Control list fatigue: Set cadence rules, quiet hours, and sunset thresholds across overlapping campaigns.

## Prompt Templates

### Beginner: welcome flow

```
Design a three-step welcome flow for a skincare brand. The trigger is newsletter signup. Include timing, goal, and exit conditions.
```

### Intermediate: cart recovery

```
Build an abandoned-cart sequence for our online store. Use three steps over five days, an exit on purchase, and a discount branch.
```

### Advanced: cadence governance

```
Map our welcome, cart, post-purchase, and re-engagement flows. Set global caps, quiet hours, fatigue rules, and a sunset policy.
```

### Expert: B2B outbound lifecycle

```
Design a cold-outbound sequence for mid-market IT buyers. Include reply exits, role-based branches, send windows, and a SEND N score.
```

## Limitations

- It does not write individual email subjects, bodies, or calls to action.
- It does not calculate final EQS scores or enforce unsubscribe vetoes.
- It requires reliable trigger and segment details for an implementation-ready plan.
- It does not replace legal, consent, or suppression-list review.

## Best Practices

- Confirm the trigger source and target segment before finalizing enrollment rules.
- Use explicit conversion, reply, bounce, and unsubscribe exits in every relevant flow.
- Apply one global send cap across flows to prevent overlapping messages.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not send all recipients through the same flow without lifecycle segmentation.
- Do not continue a sequence after a conversion, reply, unsubscribe, or bounce.
- Do not treat a re-engagement branch as consent to resume mailing indefinitely.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-26T10:18:29.921\+00:00
- Summary: Most static findings are false positives caused by Markdown code fences and relative documentation links. Two risks remain: the Resend shell example lacks safe handling for supplied values, and the save filename is derived from a flow or goal without a stated sanitization rule.

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