Email & Message Tone & Clarity Gate — Catch Unclear Asks and Wrong Tone Before You Hit Send
An adversarial pre-send gate that reviews any email or chat message and returns a structured SEND/REVISE/HOLD verdict — flagging unclear asks, unintended tone, buried action items, and missing context, with the exact text quoted and a fix for each.
- Reviewing a reply to a frustrated customer before sending
- Checking a request to a busy executive for a clear ask
- Gating support or sales messages before they go out
$12
· or 60 creditsSecure checkout via Stripe
Included in download
- Reviewing a reply to a frustrated customer before sending
- Checking a request to a busy executive for a clear ask
- file_read automation included
- Ready for GPT
Sample input
Review this message before I send it to a teammate:
"Hey just following up again on that thing I mentioned, would be great to get it sorted soon if possible, no rush but kind of urgent. Thanks!"
Sample output
VERDICT: REVISE CLARITY SCORE: 32 TONE READ: Apologetic and tentative; the mixed urgency signals may read as either nagging or unimportant. ISSUES:
- [clarity-of-ask] "that thing I mentioned" -> the reader may not recall what this refers to -> name the specific item and link or recap it
- [action-and-ownership] "get it sorted soon" -> no concrete action, owner, or date -> state exactly what you need and by when
- [tone] "no rush but kind of urgent" -> contradictory signals weaken the request -> pick one priority and say it plainly
- [context-and-completeness] "following up again" -> no link to the prior thread -> quote or link the earlier message THE ASK: unclear TOP FIXES:
- Replace "that thing" with the specific request and a real deadline
- Remove the contradictory urgency and state the priority once ONE-LINE SUMMARY: Tweak first: name the ask and give a clear deadline before sending.
Email & Message Tone & Clarity Gate — Catch Unclear Asks and Wrong Tone Before You Hit Send
An adversarial pre-send gate that reviews any email or chat message and returns a structured SEND/REVISE/HOLD verdict — flagging unclear asks, unintended tone, buried action items, and missing context, with the exact text quoted and a fix for each.
$12
· or 60 creditsSecure checkout via Stripe
Included in download
- Reviewing a reply to a frustrated customer before sending
- Checking a request to a busy executive for a clear ask
- file_read automation included
- Ready for GPT
- Instant install
Sample input
Review this message before I send it to a teammate:
"Hey just following up again on that thing I mentioned, would be great to get it sorted soon if possible, no rush but kind of urgent. Thanks!"
Sample output
VERDICT: REVISE CLARITY SCORE: 32 TONE READ: Apologetic and tentative; the mixed urgency signals may read as either nagging or unimportant. ISSUES:
- [clarity-of-ask] "that thing I mentioned" -> the reader may not recall what this refers to -> name the specific item and link or recap it
- [action-and-ownership] "get it sorted soon" -> no concrete action, owner, or date -> state exactly what you need and by when
- [tone] "no rush but kind of urgent" -> contradictory signals weaken the request -> pick one priority and say it plainly
- [context-and-completeness] "following up again" -> no link to the prior thread -> quote or link the earlier message THE ASK: unclear TOP FIXES:
- Replace "that thing" with the specific request and a real deadline
- Remove the contradictory urgency and state the priority once ONE-LINE SUMMARY: Tweak first: name the ask and give a clear deadline before sending.
About This Skill
The Email & Message Tone & Clarity Gate turns your agent into a calm second pair of eyes that reviews any email or chat message before it goes out — and then stops, leaving the wording and the send button to you. It runs five fixed passes over your draft: a clarity-of-ask check (is there one unambiguous request and a clear next step?), a tone check (will a busy reader read this as curt, passive-aggressive, defensive, or over-apologetic?), an action-and-ownership check (buried tasks, unstated deadlines, unclear who-does-what), a context-and-completeness check (missing background, undefined jargon, "as discussed" with no recap), and a risk-and-readiness check (sending while angry, ambiguous commitments, a subject line that doesn't match the body). Every run returns a structured verdict: SEND, REVISE, or HOLD, plus a 0-100 clarity score, a plain read of how a busy recipient will likely perceive the message, each issue quoted with the reason and the fix, the single clearest ask, and a one-line recommendation. Because it quotes the exact problem text and never rewrites or sends, it catches what you miss when you're too close to your own message while keeping your words yours. Who it's for: anyone who sends messages where tone and clarity matter — support and success teams, salespeople, managers, founders, and anyone firing off a reply while rushed or annoyed. It is model-agnostic and read-only: it has no inbox or network access and cannot read, send, or delete mail. It is a pre-send reviewer, not an autoresponder or ghostwriter.
Use Cases
- Reviewing a reply to a frustrated customer before sending
- Checking a request to a busy executive for a clear ask
- Gating support or sales messages before they go out
Known Limitations
Tone is contextual and partly subjective: the gate reads for how a typical busy recipient might perceive a message, but it cannot know your specific relationship history, inside jokes, or cultural norms with the reader. Treat tone flags as prompts to reconsider, not absolute rulings. It reviews English prose and may be less reliable on other languages or heavy domain jargon. It does not send, schedule, or store messages, and it makes no judgment about the underlying decision you are communicating.
How to Install
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -sL https://www.agensi.io/api/install/email-message-tone-clarity-gate-catch-unclear-asks-and-wrong-tone-before-you-hit-send -o /tmp/email-message-tone-clarity-gate-catch-unclear-asks-and-wrong-tone-before-you-hit-send.zip && unzip -o /tmp/email-message-tone-clarity-gate-catch-unclear-asks-and-wrong-tone-before-you-hit-send.zip -d ~/.claude/skills && rm /tmp/email-message-tone-clarity-gate-catch-unclear-asks-and-wrong-tone-before-you-hit-send.zipFree skills install directly. Paid skills require purchase - use the download button above after buying.
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Read-only by design. The skill only reads the message draft you paste in so it can quote the exact lines that are unclear or off-tone. It has no inbox or network access and cannot read, send, edit, or delete mail, and it needs no shell or environment access.
Model-agnostic. Works with any SKILL.md-compatible agent (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral). No external dependencies — pure reasoning and prompting. Runs entirely on the message text you paste in, with no inbox, network, or write access.