Agent skill

Email Drafting

by mgonto in mgonto/executive-assistant-skills

Draft email replies for Gonto's Gmail accounts (m@gon.to, gonto@hypergrowthpartners.com).

No licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Email Drafting

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mgonto/executive-assistant-skills --skill email-drafting -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mgonto/executive-assistant-skills email-drafting --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/mgonto/executive-assistant-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/email-drafting .claude/skills/email-drafting && 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
email-drafting
GitHub stars
118
Token cost
~2.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,278 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
5
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Draft email replies for Gonto's Gmail accounts (m@gon.to, gonto@hypergrowthpartners.com).

  • Works in 6 steps: Draft-only mode — never send automatically → Mirror inbound language — match the… → Always sign — end every draft with… → …
  • User asks to draft
  • SKILL.md covers Config — read before starting, Debug Logging (MANDATORY), Overview and When to Use, plus 15 more sections
  • Calls python3; reaches mail.google.com

What it does

Email Drafting is an agent skill from mgonto/executive-assistant-skills. Draft email replies for Gonto's Gmail accounts (m@gon.to, gonto@hypergrowthpartners.com). Handles intro acceptances, scheduling intent, thanks/ack, and positive short replies. Use when user asks to draft or reply to an email, or when Gmail webhook triggers arrive for auto-draft classification. Draft-only mode — never sends automatically.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Email management, Email writing and Webhooks. It works with Gmail. The repository describes itself as: Make OpenClaw the best executive assistant in the world and fire your human one like me.

When your agent uses it

  • User asks to draft
  • Reply to an email
  • Gmail webhook triggers arrive for auto-draft classification

Example prompts

  • “/email-drafting”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Draft-only mode — never send automatically
  2. Mirror inbound language — match the language of the most recent non-automated message in the thread. If the thread has mixed languages…
  3. Always sign — end every draft with {user.signature}
  4. Low confidence — don't draft; ask user for guidance
  5. No dash punctuation — no em-dash/en-dash in bodies. Use commas/periods.
  6. Humanize — before finalizing any draft, review it against ~/executive-assistant-skills/humanizer/SKILL.md. Remove AI-writing markers…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 28f5065. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

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

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • mail.google.com

    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

Email Drafting loads about 2.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,278 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~89
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.8k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,278 words (~2,768 tokens).

“Read ../config/user.json (resolves to ~/executive-assistant-skills/config/user.json). Extract and use throughout:”

— opening of SKILL.md by mgonto
name
email-drafting

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in email-drafting of mgonto/executive-assistant-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 28f5065

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Works with

Questions about Email Drafting

What does Email Drafting do?

Draft email replies for Gonto's Gmail accounts (m@gon.to, gonto@hypergrowthpartners.com). Email Drafting is an agent skill from mgonto/executive-assistant-skills.com).

When should I use Email Drafting?

Email Drafting fits situations like: user asks to draft; reply to an email; gmail webhook triggers arrive for auto-draft classification.

How do I install Email Drafting in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mgonto/executive-assistant-skills --skill email-drafting -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (email-drafting in mgonto/executive-assistant-skills) into .claude/skills/email-drafting in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Email Drafting in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mgonto/executive-assistant-skills --skill email-drafting -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (email-drafting in mgonto/executive-assistant-skills) into .agents/skills/email-drafting in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Email Drafting 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 mgonto/executive-assistant-skills --skill email-drafting -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/email-drafting, .gemini/skills/email-drafting, .github/skills/email-drafting and .opencode/skills/email-drafting in your project.

What does Email Drafting need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Email Drafting needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Email Drafting access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: mail.google.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Email Drafting 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 Email Drafting use?

No licence was found for Email Drafting or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Email Drafting use?

About 2.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k 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 Email Drafting?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Email Drafting: Ak Dev New Messaging Integration (yaalalabs/agent-kernel, 191 stars), Email (heypinchy/pinchy, 182 stars), Ak Add Integration (yaalalabs/agent-kernel, 191 stars) and Gmail Reply via gws (googleworkspace/cli, 31k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Email Drafting?

mgonto (a GitHub user) maintains it in mgonto/executive-assistant-skills, which has 118 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on March 11, 2026.

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