About this template
"I was really impressed by your background"
Sent by a tool that never read the profile. Everyone recognises it, acceptance rates fall, and the few who accept arrive knowing they were bulk-mailed.
Better notes, not more notes. That's the whole product.
It will not touch LinkedIn
No login, no sending, no scraping, no browser driving. Automated connecting and scraping violate LinkedIn's User Agreement and get accounts restricted — so this is the design, not a limitation being worked around.
You paste the note yourself. Ask it to automate sending and it refuses, and tells you why.
It won't invent a detail either
Everything comes from what you write into ~/linkedin/prospects/ — name, role,
company, and why you want to connect. If a detail isn't there, it doesn't go in the
note.
Never a fabricated mutual connection, shared school, or post they wrote. A made-up "I loved your post about X" is unrecoverable — they know they didn't write it.
300 characters, and the first 100 decide
Five rules:
- The specific reason first — not "I'd love to connect", the actual reason, in the opening clause
- No pitch — the ask is the connection, nothing else
- No flattery — "impressive background" is what every automated tool writes
- One concrete detail that proves it was written for them
- No question that needs answering — they're deciding whether to accept, not whether to reply
Every draft prints its character count. Over 300 isn't a draft.
Three variants, no winner named
Genuinely different angles — shared problem, specific observation, direct and brief — not three rewordings. It won't pick a best one: no acceptance data, and you know your market.
The test each note has to pass
Could this have been sent to anyone else on your list? If yes, it isn't finished.
And prospects whose stated reason is too thin to personalise get flagged rather than papered over. That's feedback about your list — if half of them can't be personalised, the problem is upstream of the copy.
What you supply
Your own Claude Code login. Nothing else — there's no LinkedIn credential, by design.
Paste a real snippet of something they published if you have one. It'll use it; it will never fetch one.
Where this stops
It writes notes you send by hand. It does not connect, message, scrape, or estimate acceptance rates — and it won't claim a note will work.
Verified on build: the skill, the working tree, the NEVER_AUTOMATE_LINKEDIN guard,
all five note rules, the 300-character cap and the no-invention rule are present on a
fresh fork. Running it on your own list is yours to do.