Agent skill

Legacy Letter

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you.

MITAuto-check passedKnowledge Management

Install Legacy Letter

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills legacy-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/legacy-letter .claude/skills/legacy-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
legacy-letter
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
845 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you.

  • Works in 5 steps: Interview for the specific, not the… → Write in their voice, not a greeting… → Include the hard things, if they want… → …
  • Someone says help me write a letter to my kids/partner
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Legacy Letter is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you. Use when someone says 'help me write a letter to my kids/partner', 'legacy letter', 'ethical will', 'something for them to have when I'm gone', or is facing illness, aging, deployment, or simply wants to. Produces a warm, true letter in the writer's own voice — one to each person, or one to all — plus a light plan for when and how it's found. An…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 Knowledge Management, covering Web clipping and read-later. 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

  • Someone says help me write a letter to my kids/partner
  • Something for them to have when Im gone
  • Is facing illness
  • Simply wants to

Example prompts

  • “help me write a letter to my kids/partner”
  • “legacy letter”
  • “ethical will”
  • “/legacy-letter”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Interview for the specific, not the summary. "I love you and I'm proud of you"
  2. Write in their voice, not a greeting card. Mirror the writer's real cadence,
  3. Include the hard things, if they want to. The most healing letters often hold
  4. Match the letter to the reader's age and moment. A letter a child reads at 8
  5. Plan the finding, keep it living. A letter no one finds is a tragedy on top of

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

Legacy Letter loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 145 tokens; SKILL.md has 845 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~145
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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). 845 words, ~1,555 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/legacy-letter/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
legacy-letter
description
Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you. Use when someone says 'help me write a letter to my kids/partner', 'legacy letter', 'ethical will', 'something for them to have when I'm gone', or is facing illness, aging, deployment, or simply wants to. Produces a warm, true letter in the writer's own voice — one to each person, or one to all — plus a light plan for when and how it's found. An emotional-legacy tool, not legal (it is not a will).

Legacy Letter Skill

A will distributes your things; a legacy letter gives your people the things a will can't — the stories only you remember, what you were proud of, what you're sorry for, the specific reasons you loved them, and the permission to be okay. Also called an ethical will, it's one of the most treasured objects a family can hold, and most people mean to write one and never do because the blank page is too heavy. This skill makes it doable: it interviews gently, finds the true and specific things (not Hallmark platitudes), and shapes them into a letter that sounds unmistakably like the writer — because the voice is the gift.

What This Skill Produces

  • A legacy letter in the writer's real voice — one per person, or one to all, their choice — built from true, specific memories and feelings, not generic sentiment
  • A story harvest: the specific moments, sayings, and lessons surfaced in the interview, usable in the letter and beyond
  • The hard-but-healing inclusions where wanted: the apology, the permission to grieve and then live, the blessing on choices the writer won't be there for
  • A light plan for when/how it's read (with the will, on a date, given now) — and the note that it can be revised anytime; this is a living document, not a final one

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • Who it's for (each person, or everyone) and roughly how old they are / will be when they read it
  • What prompted it (illness, aging, a new baby, deployment, or simply wanting to) — gently, and only as much as they offer
  • The raw material: a few real memories, a value they want to pass on, something they're proud of or sorry for, what they'd say if they had one more conversation
  • Voice sample: how they actually talk (paste a message, or just answer the interview naturally — the skill mirrors their cadence)

Framework

  1. Interview for the specific, not the summary. "I love you and I'm proud of you" is true and forgettable; "the way you refused to quit that ridiculous science project at 2am — that stubbornness is going to carry you" is unforgettable. The skill draws out concrete moments, exact sayings, the small true things. Specificity is what makes a reader feel seen years later.
  2. Write in their voice, not a greeting card. Mirror the writer's real cadence, including their humor, their bluntness, their particular words. A legacy letter that sounds like a template comforts no one; one that sounds like the person is like hearing them again. No inflated funeral-prose — earned warmth only.
  3. Include the hard things, if they want to. The most healing letters often hold an apology, a permission ("please don't stay sad — go live"), or a blessing on a future the writer won't see (marry them, take the job, be happy). The skill offers these gently and never forces them; it also never invents feelings the writer didn't express.
  4. Match the letter to the reader's age and moment. A letter a child reads at 8 differs from the one they read at 30. If it's for a future moment, the skill can help write to who they'll be, or suggest a short set the writer adds to over time.
  5. Plan the finding, keep it living. A letter no one finds is a tragedy on top of a tragedy. Light plan: where it's kept (with the will, told to a trusted person, or given directly), when it's meant to be read, and the standing invitation to revise it — people write these and live years more; it should grow with them.
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Output Format

## The letter(s)
[In the writer's own voice — one per person or one to all. True, specific, warm.
Hard-but-healing lines included only where the writer wanted them.]

## Stories we surfaced (yours to keep and reuse)
[The specific memories/sayings/lessons the interview found]

## When and how it's found
[Where it lives · when it's read · who's told · "revise it anytime — it's living"]

Quality Checks

  • The letter is built from specific, true memories and feelings — zero generic "I'm so proud" filler standing alone
  • It sounds like the writer (their cadence, humor, words), not a greeting card or funeral speech
  • Any apology/permission/blessing came from the writer, never invented by the skill
  • It's pitched to the reader's actual age/moment, especially if read in the future
  • There's a plan for it to be found, and it's framed as revisable/living

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not write in inflated funeral prose or platitudes — specificity and the real voice are the entire value
  • Do not invent memories, feelings, or apologies the writer didn't give — this is their letter, sacred and true; the skill is a scribe, not an author
  • Do not treat this as a will — it carries no legal weight; if the writer starts assigning assets, gently route them to [[estate-planning-kit]]
  • Do not push the hard inclusions; offer, honor a no, and never coerce an apology or a confession
  • Do not rush a grieving or frightened writer — the interview is gentle, paced to them, and it's fine to write it in pieces over time

[[digital-death-plan]] and [[estate-planning-kit]] for the practical legacy; [[grief-admin]] for the people who receive it; [[the-time-capsule]] is the professional-decisions cousin; [[personal-bio]] shares the voice-mining craft.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Help me write a letter to my kids."
  • "Write a legacy letter."
  • "Help me write an ethical will."
  • "Write a letter for my partner to read later."

© mohitagw15856, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Legacy Letter

What does Legacy Letter do?

Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you. Legacy Letter is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you.

When should I use Legacy Letter?

Legacy Letter fits situations like: someone says help me write a letter to my kids/partner; something for them to have when Im gone; is facing illness; simply wants to.

How do I install Legacy Letter in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Legacy Letter in Codex?

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

Can I use Legacy 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 legacy-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/legacy-letter, .gemini/skills/legacy-letter, .github/skills/legacy-letter and .opencode/skills/legacy-letter in your project.

What does Legacy Letter need to run?

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

Does Legacy 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 Legacy 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 Legacy Letter use?

Legacy 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 Legacy Letter use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Legacy 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.