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Reply In Their Tone
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Draft email replies that match the sender's register — formality, length, directness, and emoji-tolerance read from their message, so the reply lands as native instead of off-key. Use when asked reply to this email, draft a response that doesn't sound stiff, match their tone, or answer this without sounding like a robot. Produces the tone read of the incoming message, the reply drafted in that register, and the adjustment knobs.
What to give it
▸The incoming email — verbatim; the tone read works on the actual words
▸What the reply must accomplish — the yes/no/ask/push-back content, decided by the user
▸The relationship — first contact, colleague, boss, customer? Matching runs within the floor the relationship sets (never below professional-warm with strangers)
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every dial cites evidence from the incoming message
✓Reply length is within ±50% of the incoming
✓Warmth markers never exceed the sender's
✓The content the user specified survives intact — tone-matching never softens the actual answer
✓Deliberate mismatches are flagged as choices, not accidents
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not default to formal — stiffness reads as coldness, and coldness reads as a message
Do not out-emoji the sender — one notch above reads as performative
Do not cushion a direct sender's answer — they told you their preference in their own email
Do not let tone-matching dilute a "no" — register is the wrapper, never the content
Do not mimic idiosyncrasies (their typos, their catchphrases) — matching register isn't impersonation
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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