Agent skill

Apology Letter

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public.

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Install Apology Letter

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill apology-letter -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills apology-letter --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/apology-letter .claude/skills/apology-letter && 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
apology-letter
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~897 tokens
SKILL.md length
443 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public.

  • Works in 6 steps: Acknowledge — name specifically what… → Take responsibility — own it directly… → Empathy — show you understand the actual… → …
  • Asked to write an apology
  • SKILL.md covers Working from a brief, Required Inputs, Output Format and Quality Checks, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Apology Letter is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public. Use when asked to write an apology, say sorry to a customer or community, make amends after a mistake, or respond to a complaint with an apology. Produces a genuine apology — acknowledgement, taking responsibility, empathy for the impact, the concrete fix and prevention, and an offer to make it right — in the right tone, without excuses or non-apologies.

Its SKILL.md is about 900 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to write an apology
  • Say sorry to a customer
  • Make amends after a mistake
  • Respond to a complaint with an apology

Example prompts

  • “/apology-letter”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Acknowledge — name specifically what happened, up front.
  2. Take responsibility — own it directly ("we got this wrong"), no "if", no "but", no blame-shifting.
  3. Empathy — show you understand the actual impact on them.
  4. Make it right — the concrete fix and, where appropriate, a make-good (refund, replacement, credit).
  5. Prevent recurrence — briefly, what changes so it doesn't happen again (only if true).
  6. Close — sincere, human, with a way to reach a real person.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Apology Letter loads about 897 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 111 tokens; SKILL.md has 443 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~111
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~897

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

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 443 words, ~897 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/apology-letter/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
apology-letter
description
Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public. Use when asked to write an apology, say sorry to a customer or community, make amends after a mistake, or respond to a complaint with an apology. Produces a genuine apology — acknowledgement, taking responsibility, empathy for the impact, the concrete fix and prevention, and an offer to make it right — in the right tone, without excuses or non-apologies.

Apology Letter Skill

A real apology rebuilds trust; a non-apology ("we're sorry you feel that way") destroys it. The difference is specific: acknowledge what happened, own it without excuses, show you understand the impact, and say concretely what you'll do. This skill writes apologies that actually land — sincere, accountable, and specific to the situation.

Working from a brief

Given "apologise to a customer whose order we lost", write the full apology anyway — infer the impact and a reasonable remedy, label assumptions, and bracket only details to confirm (names, dates, specific compensation). Never hand back advice about apologising instead of the apology itself.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided (else infer and label):

  • What happened — the mistake, and who was affected.
  • The impact — how it affected them (inconvenience, cost, trust, harm).
  • Your responsibility — what you got wrong (own your part plainly).
  • The remedy — what you'll do to fix it and prevent recurrence, and any make-good offer.
  • Recipient & tone — one customer / a community / the public; and how formal.

Output Format

Apology: [situation]

A complete, ready-to-send message in this order:

  1. Acknowledge — name specifically what happened, up front.
  2. Take responsibility — own it directly ("we got this wrong"), no "if", no "but", no blame-shifting.
  3. Empathy — show you understand the actual impact on them.
  4. Make it right — the concrete fix and, where appropriate, a make-good (refund, replacement, credit).
  5. Prevent recurrence — briefly, what changes so it doesn't happen again (only if true).
  6. Close — sincere, human, with a way to reach a real person.

Then provide a short version (2–4 sentences) for chat/social, and notes on anything to confirm.

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Quality Checks

  • Acknowledges the specific mistake — not a vague "issues occurred"
  • Takes real responsibility — no "if we offended", "but", or blaming the customer/circumstances
  • Shows genuine understanding of the impact, in their terms
  • Offers a concrete fix and, where fitting, a way to make it right
  • Prevention is mentioned only if true, not as empty reassurance
  • Tone matches the severity — proportionate, sincere, not grovelling or glib

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not write a non-apology ("we're sorry you feel that way", "mistakes were made") — it makes it worse
  • Do not use conditional language ("if this caused any inconvenience") when harm clearly occurred
  • Do not bury the apology under excuses, context, or self-justification
  • Do not over-promise prevention you can't deliver
  • Do not be so brief it reads as dismissive, or so effusive it reads as insincere — match the harm

Based On

Effective-apology practice — specific acknowledgement, unconditional responsibility, empathy, concrete remedy, and credible prevention.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Write an apology."
  • "Say sorry to a customer."
  • "Make amends after a mistake."
  • "Respond to a complaint with an apology."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/apology-letter of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Apology Letter

What does Apology Letter do?

Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public. Apology Letter is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write a sincere, effective apology to a customer, group, or the public.

When should I use Apology Letter?

Apology Letter fits situations like: asked to write an apology; say sorry to a customer; make amends after a mistake; respond to a complaint with an apology.

How do I install Apology Letter in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill apology-letter -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/apology-letter in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/apology-letter in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Apology Letter in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill apology-letter -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/apology-letter in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/apology-letter in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Apology Letter 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill apology-letter -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/apology-letter, .gemini/skills/apology-letter, .github/skills/apology-letter and .opencode/skills/apology-letter in your project.

What does Apology Letter need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Apology Letter is instructions for the agent only.

Does Apology Letter 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 Apology Letter 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 Apology Letter use?

Apology Letter is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Apology Letter use?

About 897 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Apology Letter?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Apology Letter: Add Effect (remotion-dev/remotion, 63k stars), Customize (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars), Customize (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars) and Customize (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Apology Letter?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.