reply-in-their-tone
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill reply-in-their-tone --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Reply In Their Tone Skill Replies fail on register more than content: the three-line casual ask answered with four formal paragraphs, the careful formal request answered with "hey! sure thing 🙌". People read tone mismatch as social information — too formal reads as cold or annoyed, too casual reads as unserious. This skill reads the incoming message's register first (formality, length, directness, warmth markers), then drafts the reply *in that register* — content correct, tone native. ## What This Skill Produces - **The tone read** — the sender's register across four dials: formality, length, directness, warmth/emoji - **The reply** — content as instructed, register as read - **The knobs** — one-notch-warmer and one-notch-more-formal variants when the call is close - **The mismatch flag** — when the *right* move is deliberately not matching (escalations, boundary-setting), said explicitly ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **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? Matchin
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Four Dials
- Output Format
- The Tone Read
- The Draft
- Knobs
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the reply-in-their-tone skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill reply-in-their-tone --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.