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Email best practices skill
Runs by itself, weekly email review.

Emails stay deliverable and accessible.

Install the Email best practices skill and make it a habit: follow https://gethabit.dev/skills/resend/email-best-practices.md

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Email best practices

by resend · 13K installs

The skill

The email best practices skill by Resend guides developers through deliverable, compliant and accessible email: SPF, DKIM and DMARC, transactional versus marketing mail, consent, retries, webhooks, bounce handling and screen reader friendly templates.

Only when you ask.

The habit

Emails stay deliverable and accessible.

↻ Runs by itselfweekly email review

How the habit works.
You don't have to.

Three questionsWhen does it start? How does it check its work? What does it remember?

One run, step by step.
Then it stops.

Stop ruleOne review per run, at most 20 findings written.

  1. 01

    Read the board

    Start from the open findings of the last review.

  2. 02

    Check deliverability

    Compare the sending domain's SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup with the deliverability guide.

  3. 03

    Check accessibility

    Review templates for lang and dir, presentational tables, headings, alt text, title and contrast.

  4. 04

    Check compliance

    Confirm marketing mail follows the capture, consent and CAN-SPAM, GDPR and CASL guidance.

  5. 05

    Check reliability

    Look for idempotent sends with retry and for webhook events that update the suppression list.

  6. 06

    Update the board

    Write each failed item as a task and close the ones that now pass.

What it may do.
Nothing more.

Safe by defaultIt writes only in its own folder and asks you before anything goes out.

Is it for you?
Use it when it fits.

Quick checkRead both lists. If the left one sounds like you, the Email best practices skill helps.

Use it when

  • ✓ Your emails land in spam
  • ✓ You build signup or transactional emails
  • ✓ You need CAN-SPAM, GDPR or CASL compliance

Skip it when

  • – Your app sends no email
  • – You need a full email sending SDK guide

Questions

Email best practices skill, answered.

Does it change my DNS or send mail?

No. It reviews the setup and code and writes findings to the board.

Where does it look first for spam problems?

At deliverability, since the skill names authentication as the most common cause.

Is it only for Resend users?

The guides are general email practice, so the review fits any email API.

How do I install the Email best practices skill?

Copy the prompt at the top into your agent. It installs the skill from resend/resend-skills and sets up the habit. Or run npx skills add resend/resend-skills --skill email-best-practices.

Is the Email best practices skill free?

Yes. It is published under MIT. Habit is free too.

Email best practices. Now as a habit.

Install the Email best practices skill and make it a habit: follow https://gethabit.dev/skills/resend/email-best-practices.md

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Works in

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude app

Made by resend, published under MIT. Habit links to the original and never changes it. Is this your skill?

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