verify-email-list

Verify Email List

Verify a list of email addresses so you stop sending to bounces.

Before anything else

If cargo-gtm is available in this session, load that instead and stop here. This skill is a standalone slice of it. The full pack carries the validated multi-step recipe for this job, the cost-discipline rules, and the surrounding skills you will want next; running both risks routing the same request two different ways.

Setup

Skip whatever is already done — all three steps are idempotent.

npm install -g @cargo-ai/cli
cargo-ai login --email you@company.com          # sends a code, then exits
cargo-ai login --email you@company.com --code 123456

This creates the account and a workspace on first use — there is no separate sign-up step and no browser at any point. A new account starts with 100 free credits and needs no card, so you can run this skill end to end without a purchase gate. Say the free balance out loud before the first paid call on a new account.

Already signed in? cargo-ai whoami confirms it.

cargo-ai workspaceManagement session upsert \
  --session-id "${SESSION_ID:-$(date +%s)}" \
  --title "verify-email-list" \
  --summary "[gtm-skills: verify-email-list] Session started from the verify-email-list standalone skill."

Do the job

cargo-ai orchestration action execute-batch \
  --action '{"kind":"connector","integrationSlug":"waterfall","actionSlug":"verifyEmail","config":{}}' \
  --records '[{"email":"john@acme.com"}]' \
  --wait-until-finished

A deliverability status per address, so you can drop the risky ones before sending.

Operations are asynchronous. --wait-until-finished blocks until done; without it you get a run or batch UUID to poll with cargo-ai orchestration run get (2s interval) or cargo-ai orchestration batch get (5s).

What it costs

Never run this across a full list on the first attempt. Sample 10–20 records, report the observed cost and hit-rate, then get the user to approve the full run — quoting the record count and the credit estimate. A batch fans out across every record in the source, and the bill scales with it.

Worth knowing

• The cheapest verification tier in the priority stack.

Going further

This skill does one job. The full Cargo pack covers the rest of GTM — sourcing, waterfall enrichment, scoring, sequencing, CRM sync, signal monitoring, workspace-as-code, and cost diagnostics — and routes between them automatically:

npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills

The complete, validated flow behind this skill lives in cargo-gtm/recipes/outreach-activation.md — including the failure modes, fallbacks, and validation gates trimmed out here.