follow-up-email-writer

follow-up-email-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for polite follow-up emails to journalists, editors, and other media contacts who have not replied to an earlier pitch or request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write a first, second, or later follow-up, including a new angle or information and deadlines such as an embargo lift.
Why use it?
It helps you follow up at the right level of urgency without sounding pushy or damaging the relationship.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write a first, second, or later follow-up, including a new angle or information and deadlines such as an embargo lift.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/follow-up-email-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill follow-up-email-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,373 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 $0.00046 $0.01373
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00687
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00137

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2e752da871ec, 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-email-writer 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 8d 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.

skills/pr-communications/media-relations/follow-up-email-writer/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Follow-Up Email Writer

What This Skill Does

Writes a professional follow-up email to a journalist, editor, or media contact who has not responded to a previous pitch or request, calibrated to the relationship stage, urgency, and number of prior attempts.

When To Use This Skill

  • You sent a pitch or press release and have not heard back after a reasonable interval
  • You need to re-engage a journalist before an embargo lifts or a deadline passes
  • You want to follow up without damaging a relationship by seeming pushy or tone-deaf
  • You have a genuine new angle or piece of information to add to the original pitch

What You Need To Provide

Required:

  • A brief summary of the original pitch or request (what you sent and when)
  • The recipient's name and outlet (so tone and formality can be calibrated)
  • How many times you have already followed up (first follow-up, second, etc.)

Optional:

  • Any new information, angle, or hook that has emerged since the original pitch
  • The urgency level: routine, time-sensitive (event or embargo), or deadline-critical
  • Your relationship history with this contact (cold, met once, established source)
  • Preferred sign-off name and title

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Assesses the follow-up stage. A first follow-up is warmer and more generous than a second or third. The assistant adjusts assertiveness, length, and tone accordingly — first follow-ups assume good faith and a busy inbox; later follow-ups are shorter, more direct, and offer an easy out.

  2. Leads with value, not with a reminder. The email never opens with "just checking in" or "circling back." Instead, it leads with a new detail, a timely hook, or a reframing of why the story matters now — giving the journalist a reason to engage rather than a guilt trip.

  3. Keeps the email short and scannable. Follow-ups are under 120 words. The core ask is visible without scrolling. No attachments are referenced unless the original pitch included one; if so, the key detail is pulled into the body so the journalist does not need to open a file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 99 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 2e752da871ec

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follow-up-email-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,373 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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