draft-email_skill

Overview

This skill drafts a reply-all HTML email to an existing Gmail thread and saves it to your Gmail drafts folder for review. It never sends messages — it prepares a correctly addressed, styled draft with quoted thread history so you can review and send from Gmail. Use it whenever you ask to draft or prepare a reply to an email thread.

How this skill works

The skill locates the target thread from context, a named participant, or a Gmail search, then reads the full thread to gather participants and history. It either uses the user's provided message or auto-generates a concise, professional reply in Christopher's voice, formats the body as simple HTML (starting with <p> tags only), and builds a reply-all recipient list. Finally it creates a Gmail draft with body_type set to html and confirms the draft recipients and summary to the user.

When to use it

• You ask: “draft a reply”, “draft an email response”, or “write a reply to that email”.
• You say: “reply to Hayden”, “respond to that thread”, or similar phrasing referencing composing a reply.
• When you want a reply-all draft created and saved to Gmail drafts rather than sending immediately.
• When you want the draft formatted as HTML with quoted thread history for review.
• When you want a concise, professional reply in Christopher’s voice without switching to Gmail.

Best practices

• If multiple threads match your query, specify the subject or sender to avoid ambiguity.
• Provide the key sentence or points you want included for fastest, exact results.
• When unsure, ask for an auto-generated proposal first so you can edit before the draft is created.
• Review the shown To/Cc list before the draft is created, especially for large Cc lists.
• Keep requests focused (payment, timeline, action items) so replies remain concise and direct.

Example use cases

• “Draft a reply to Hayden saying we’ll pay next week and I’ll send remittance.”
• “Prepare a response to the Margin Wheeler accounting queries thread — propose next steps.”
• After reading a thread: “Ok draft a reply” to have the skill propose text based on thread context.
• “Draft something back to the vendor confirming delivery dates.”
• User provides text: “Tell them we’ll approve the invoice” — skill formats and saves a reply-all draft.