followups

followups is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. It costs 11 tokens per session (307 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tracker for messages sent through channels such as email, Slack, or WhatsApp that are still awaiting replies. Each follow-up can be pending, overdue, nudged, or resolved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list overdue replies, filter follow-ups by channel or contact, send reminders, and mark responses as resolved.
Why use it?
It prevents unanswered messages from being forgotten and highlights replies that are late. Follow-ups can also be linked to reminders and automatically closed when a response arrives.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to list overdue replies, filter follow-ups by channel or contact, send reminders, and mark responses as resolved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/followups
About the project

Vellum Assistant is a personal AI assistant that remembers information about users, learns their preferences, and takes actions across connected apps. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can manage conversations, unfinished work, and proactive notifications over time. The catalogue skills, hooks, instruction, and setting configure or extend how the assistant works.

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,225 stars · on GitHub · vellum.ai

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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill followups
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 followups

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for followups

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 307 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 $0.00011 $0.00307
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00031

Measured 11d ago against content hash d34b30de6ec6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

followups 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (tools/followup-create.ts, tools/followup-list.ts, tools/followup-resolve.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

assistant/src/config/bundled-skills/followups/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Track messages sent on external channels (email, Slack, WhatsApp, etc.) that are awaiting a response.

Lifecycle

Each follow-up moves through these states:

  • pending -- waiting for a response
  • overdue -- past the expected response deadline with no reply
  • nudged -- a reminder was sent after becoming overdue
  • resolved -- a response was received or the follow-up was manually closed

Auto-Deadline

When expected_response_hours is set, the follow-up automatically becomes overdue after that window. If a contact_id is provided, the contact's importance score can inform grace period decisions.

Resolution

Follow-ups can be resolved in two ways:

  1. By ID -- resolve a specific follow-up directly
  2. By conversation -- provide channel + conversation_id to auto-resolve all matching pending follow-ups (useful when a response arrives on a conversation)

Tips

  • Use followup_list with overdue_only: true to find conversations that need attention.
  • Attach a reminder_schedule_id to link a recurring reminder schedule to a follow-up.
  • Filter by channel, status, or contact to narrow results.
Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 38 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A d34b30de6ec6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

followups is a skill published in the GitHub repository vellum-ai/vellum-assistant (1,225 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 307 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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