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email-drafter

Draft and review professional emails that match your personal writing style. Analyzes your sent emails for tone, greeting, structure, and sign-off patterns via WorkIQ, then generates context-aware drafts for any recipient.

Install / Use

npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill email-drafter

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill
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SKILL.md

Installable skill definition

Quality Score

90/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

Our assessment of email-drafter

email-drafter scores 90/100 on our quality scale, 28th of 90 Communication skills we index (top 32%).

Its SKILL.md is 4.5 KB long, well organised into 10 sections and no code examples: a solid amount of guidance for an agent.

With 39,348 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.

Substance
26/30
Structure
13/20
Description
15/15
Adoption
20/20
Freshness
15/15

Maintenance, license and trust

  • The repository was last updated yesterday, so email-drafter is actively maintained.
  • It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
  • Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install email-drafter?
Run npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill email-drafter. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent.
Which AI agents does email-drafter work with?
It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
Is email-drafter safe to use?
It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
Is email-drafter still maintained?
The repository was last updated yesterday, so email-drafter is actively maintained.

name: email-drafter description: 'Draft and review professional emails that match your personal writing style. Analyzes your sent emails for tone, greeting, structure, and sign-off patterns via WorkIQ, then generates context-aware drafts for any recipient. USE FOR: draft email, write email, compose email, reply email, follow-up email, analyze email tone, email style.'

Email Drafter

Draft professional emails that match your established writing style and tone. Uses WorkIQ to analyze your sent emails and prior correspondence with recipients, then produces context-aware drafts you can review and refine.

When to Use

  • "Draft an email to [person] about [topic]"
  • "Write a follow-up email to [customer] regarding [project]"
  • "Reply to [person]'s email about [subject]"
  • "Compose a proposal email for [initiative]"
  • "Analyze my email tone with [recipient]"

Workflow

Step 1 — Gather Context

Before drafting, collect:

  1. Recipient(s) — who is the email for?
  2. Purpose — what is the email about? (proposal, follow-up, technical guidance, introduction, status update, etc.)
  3. Key points — what needs to be communicated?
  4. Relationship context — use WorkIQ to check prior email history with the recipient if available

If the user provides all of these upfront, proceed directly. Otherwise, ask clarifying questions (max 3).

Step 2 — Analyze Tone

When drafting for a recipient, use WorkIQ to understand the user's established communication patterns:

  1. Pull 3–5 recent sent emails from the user to the same recipient or similar recipients
  2. Identify patterns:
    • Greeting style — formal ("Dear"), standard ("Hello"), casual ("Hi"), or direct (no greeting)
    • Structure — short paragraphs vs. bullet lists vs. numbered steps
    • Sign-off — what closing and name format the user typically uses
    • Formality level — professional, friendly-professional, casual
    • Language — which language the user writes in with this recipient
  3. Apply those patterns to the draft

If WorkIQ is unavailable or no prior emails exist, use sensible professional defaults and note that the tone was inferred.

Step 3 — Draft the Email

Apply the discovered (or default) style rules:

Greeting:

  • Match whatever greeting style was found in Step 2
  • Default: "Hello [FirstName]," for external, "Hi [FirstName]," for internal
  • For multiple recipients: "Hello [Name1], [Name2],"

Tone:

  • Direct and concise — no filler language
  • Friendly but professional
  • Get to the point quickly
  • Offer help proactively where appropriate ("Happy to discuss further", "Let me know if you need anything")

Structure:

  • Short emails (1–2 points): simple paragraphs, no bullets needed
  • Longer emails (proposals, multi-point updates): use bullet points or numbered lists
  • Include context from prior conversations when relevant ("Following our recent conversation about...")

Sign-off:

  • Match the user's established sign-off pattern from Step 2
  • Default: "Best regards," followed by the user's first name on the next line

Language:

  • Default to English unless the user specifies otherwise
  • Match the recipient's language if prior correspondence was in another language

Step 4 — Output

  1. Present the draft for review with a brief note on the tone/style applied
  2. Apply edits as the user requests — iterate until satisfied
  3. Save the final draft to outputs/<year>/<month>/ with a descriptive filename (e.g., 2026-03-26-email-acme-followup.md)

Important Rules

  • Never send emails — only draft them as files for the user to review and send manually
  • Always check WorkIQ for prior context with the recipient when available
  • If the user says "draft email" or "write email", activate this skill automatically
  • Save drafts using the outputs/<year>/<month>/ folder convention
  • Respect privacy: do not include sensitive information from unrelated email threads

Example Prompts

  • "Draft an email to Sarah about the project timeline"
  • "Write a follow-up to the customer about their migration questions"
  • "Compose a proposal email for the new training initiative"
  • "Reply to John's email — agree with his approach but suggest we add monitoring"
  • "Analyze my email tone with the Acme team"

Requirements

  • WorkIQ MCP tool is recommended for tone analysis and recipient context (Microsoft 365 / Outlook)
  • Without WorkIQ, the skill still works but uses professional defaults instead of personalized tone matching
  • Output is saved as markdown files in the workspace

Related Skills

View on GitHub
GitHub Stars39.3k
CategoryCommunication
Updated1d ago
Forks5.0k

Languages

JavaScript

Trust signals

100/100

From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.

No cautions