follow-up

follow-up is a skill for Claude Code from n24q02m/better-email-mcp. It costs 20 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An email follow-up assistant that finds sent messages without replies, flagged messages you have not answered, and drafts context-aware responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding overdue replies, reviewing flagged unanswered messages, and preparing follow-up email drafts.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching email and checking whether someone has responded or still needs an answer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the better-email-mcp plugin — 2 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Finding overdue replies, reviewing flagged unanswered messages, and preparing follow-up email drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/follow-up
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 n24q02m/better-email-mcp --skill follow-up
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/n24q02m/better-email-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install better-email-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00020 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9c1f0b6d1199, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

follow-up 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/follow-up/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Follow-Up

Find emails that need follow-up and draft contextual responses.

Unanswered Sent Emails

Find emails you sent that received no reply after N days:

  1. Search Sent folder for emails sent N+ days ago:

    messages(action="search", query="SINCE 2026-03-16 BEFORE 2026-03-20", folder="Sent", account="...")
    
  2. Cross-reference Inbox for replies:

    • For each sent email, search Inbox for matching Subject (with Re: prefix): messages(action="search", query="SUBJECT \"Re: <original subject>\" FROM <recipient>")
    • If no matching reply found, this email needs follow-up
  3. Present candidates with context:

    No reply after 5 days:
    1. "API Integration Proposal" to [email protected] (sent Mar 18)
       Original: Asked about timeline for API access
    2. "Invoice #2024-003" to [email protected] (sent Mar 16)
       Original: Sent invoice, requested payment confirmation
    

Flagged but Unreplied

Find received emails you flagged/starred but never responded to:

messages(action="search", query="FLAGGED", account="...")

Then for each flagged email, check Sent folder for a reply with matching subject. If none found, it needs attention.

Drafting Follow-Up Messages

For each follow-up candidate:

  1. Read the original thread to get full context

  2. Decide reply type:

    • If original was your sent email with no reply: draft a gentle follow-up referencing the original
    • If original was received and you haven't replied: draft a response to their message
  3. Use reply (not new message) when following up on existing threads:

    messages(action="reply", uid="<original_uid>", body="<follow-up text>")
    

    Use messages(action="new") for new conversations.

  4. Follow-up tone guidelines:

    • First follow-up (3-5 days): "Just checking in on this..."
    • Second follow-up (7-10 days): "Wanted to circle back on..."
    • Final follow-up (14+ days): Direct ask with deadline: "Could you confirm by Friday?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 12d ago First seen · 78 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 9c1f0b6d1199

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follow-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository n24q02m/better-email-mcp (34 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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