outbound-copy

outbound-copy is a skill for Claude Code from datatorag/mcp-gateway. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for text that people outside a company read, including emails, interface text, form labels, and error messages. It covers voice, allowed claims, where copy belongs, and approval rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before drafting transactional or lifecycle emails, in-product strings, form copy, or error messages. It is not intended for blog posts or documentation.
Why use it?
It helps prevent customer-facing text from sounding generic or claiming things the product does not provide.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the datatorag plugin — 16 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before drafting transactional or lifecycle emails, in-product strings, form copy, or error messages. It is not intended for blog posts or documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/datatorag/mcp-gateway/outbound-copy
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add datatorag/mcp-gateway --skill outbound-copy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datatorag/mcp-gateway

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install datatorag, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for outbound-copy

README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,187 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00058 $0.02187
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00219

Measured 7d ago against content hash f6cc1e24a041, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outbound-copy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/outbound-copy/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outbound Copy

Words that leave the building. Not blog posts and not docs, which have their own skills (blog-writing, site-content) — this is the copy nobody thinks of as copy: the confirmation email, the welcome email, the button label, the error message a stranger reads at the worst moment of their day.

It gets less review than a blog post and reaches people who have not decided to trust us yet.

Load manuel-voice before drafting

Not after, not "if it sounds off". This copy carries a person's name and the company's, and the default drafting register is the wrong one every time.

The failure it prevents is specific: a draft can be fluent, well-structured and still read as generic template copy at a glance. The usual tell is em-dashes, which is why the next rule is a hard one.

Two rules that are not negotiable

Zero em-dashes. and &mdash;. This is the single strongest AI marker in English prose and Manuel does not use them; he comma-chains. Where copy lives in code, assert it in a test rather than remembering it. In markdown, grep before shipping.

Never claim a capability we do not ship. The axis is create-new versus change-existing, never "they read, we write" and never a breadth claim. If copy mentions CASA it uses the canonical string exactly:

Google-verified app · CASA Tier 2 security approved (June 2026)

CASA is a Google-specific assessment. Copy must never let it read as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or a general audit. Approved 2026-06-29, recert ~June 2027 — the date is in the string because it expires.

Register: customer email is not Slack

manuel-voice has two registers and the wrong one is a real trap. Customer email keeps his casual sentence structure (comma-chains, hedges, short, no ceremony) but uses standard capitalization — sentence starts, "I", people's names, "DataToRAG". The Slack lowercase drift does NOT carry over.

Subject lines are the exception and stay lowercase.

Shape that works, from his own rewrite:

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 198 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A f6cc1e24a041

Subscribe to this mod's changes

outbound-copy is a skill published in the GitHub repository datatorag/mcp-gateway (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,187 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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