Agent skill

Escalation And Reply Tone

by Kiln-AI in Kiln-AI/Kiln

When a ticket must go to a human before any reply is sent, and how the first reply should read.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Escalation And Reply Tone

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Kiln-AI/Kiln --skill escalation-and-reply-tone -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Kiln-AI/Kiln escalation-and-reply-tone --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kiln.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'.agents/playwright_project/skills/197586632641 - escalation-and-reply-tone' .claude/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
escalation-and-reply-tone
GitHub stars
5.2k
Token cost
~403 tokens
SKILL.md length
232 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

When a ticket must go to a human before any reply is sent, and how the first reply should read.

  • Drafting a customer reply
  • SKILL.md covers Always escalate to a human and Tone
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Setting needshumanreview

What it does

Escalation And Reply Tone is an agent skill from Kiln-AI/Kiln. When a ticket must go to a human before any reply is sent, and how the first reply should read. Use when drafting a customer reply or setting needshumanreview.

Its SKILL.md is about 400 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering. The repository describes itself as: Build, Evaluate, and Optimize AI Systems. Includes evals, RAG, agents, fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, dataset management, MCP, and more.

When your agent uses it

  • Drafting a customer reply
  • Setting needshumanreview

Example prompts

  • “/escalation-and-reply-tone”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8ac9075. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Escalation And Reply Tone loads about 403 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 47 tokens; SKILL.md has 232 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~47
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~403

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 232 words (~403 tokens).

“Use this skill when drafting the first reply to a customer, or when deciding whether a ticket needs a human before anything is sent.”

— opening of SKILL.md by Kiln-AI, Custom licence
name
escalation-and-reply-tone

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/playwright_project/skills/197586632641 - escalation-and-reply-tone of Kiln-AI/Kiln.

  • SKILL.md
  • skill.kiln

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8ac9075

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Questions about Escalation And Reply Tone

What does Escalation And Reply Tone do?

When a ticket must go to a human before any reply is sent, and how the first reply should read. Escalation And Reply Tone is an agent skill from Kiln-AI/Kiln. When a ticket must go to a human before any reply is sent, and how the first reply should read.

When should I use Escalation And Reply Tone?

Escalation And Reply Tone fits situations like: drafting a customer reply; setting needshumanreview.

How do I install Escalation And Reply Tone in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Kiln-AI/Kiln --skill escalation-and-reply-tone -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/playwright_project/skills/197586632641 - escalation-and-reply-tone in Kiln-AI/Kiln) into .claude/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Escalation And Reply Tone in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Kiln-AI/Kiln --skill escalation-and-reply-tone -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/playwright_project/skills/197586632641 - escalation-and-reply-tone in Kiln-AI/Kiln) into .agents/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Escalation And Reply Tone in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Kiln-AI/Kiln --skill escalation-and-reply-tone -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone, .gemini/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone, .github/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone and .opencode/skills/escalation-and-reply-tone in your project.

What does Escalation And Reply Tone need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Escalation And Reply Tone is instructions for the agent only.

Does Escalation And Reply Tone access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Escalation And Reply Tone safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Escalation And Reply Tone use?

Escalation And Reply Tone has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Escalation And Reply Tone use?

About 403 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Escalation And Reply Tone?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Escalation And Reply Tone: Agent Builder (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars), Add Uint Support (pytorch/pytorch, 104k stars), LLM Benchmarking with lm-evaluation-harness (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars) and Segment Anything Model Guide (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Escalation And Reply Tone?

Kiln-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Kiln-AI/Kiln, which has 5,181 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: Kiln-AI/Kiln on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.