email-composer

# Email Composer ## Overview This skill produces emails that are clear, correctly toned, well structured, and end with an unambiguous call to action (CTA). It works for new outreach, replies, follow-ups, requests, declines, apologies, status updates, introductions, and escalations. Keywords: write email, draft email, compose, reply, follow up, cold outreach, subject line, tone, professional, polite, firm, apology, request, decline, introduction, escalation. The core principle: every email should let the reader answer three questions in under 10 seconds — *What is this about? What do you need from me? By when?* ## Workflow Follow these steps in order. Ask only the questions you cannot reasonably infer from context; never block on a long questionnaire. 1. **Identify the five inputs.** Audience, relationship, purpose, desired outcome (the CTA), and constraints (deadline, length, channel, formality). If two or more are missing and cannot be inferred, ask one concise clarifying message grouping all gaps. 2. **Pick the email type.** Map the purpose to a pattern (request, follow-up, decline, apology, update, intro, cold outreach, escalation). See `references/email-patterns.md`. 3. **Choose the tone.** Calibrate formality and warmth to the relationship and culture. Use the dial in `references/tone-guide.md`. 4. **Draft the subject line.** Specific, ≤ 60 characters, scannable. Front-load the keyword. See subject-line rules in `references/email-patterns.md`. 5. **Write the body** ...