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local-customer-email-reply

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Review inbound customer email, ground the reply in a local policy or FAQ document, and draft a safe response for complaints and queries.

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  2. Copy the prompt below and paste it into your agent.
  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/Prompthon-IO/agent-systems-handbook/blob/HEAD/case-studies/examples/customer-support-email-agent-starter/skill/SKILL.md

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Local Customer Email Reply

Use this skill when a user wants an agent to review customer email and draft a response based on a local document path such as /Users/example/support-policy.md.

Required Inputs

  • EMAIL_PATH: local .txt, .md, .json, or .eml file containing the inbound customer message
  • POLICY_PATH: local .md, .txt, or other text-readable file containing support policy, FAQ, refund rules, or escalation guidance
  • optional DRAFT_PATH: local path where the reply draft should be written

Workflow

  1. Read the inbound email from EMAIL_PATH.
  2. Read the grounding document from POLICY_PATH.
  3. Extract customer name, issue, requested outcome, order or account identifiers, urgency, and sentiment.
  4. Classify the message as one of:
    • complaint
    • query
    • refund_request
    • billing_issue
    • handoff_required
  5. Draft a reply grounded only in the local document.
  6. If the requested action is not supported by the document, do not invent policy. Mark the case handoff_required.
  7. Return:
    • summary
    • classification
    • policy_evidence
    • reply_subject
    • reply_body
    • needs_human_review

Guardrails

  • Never promise refunds, credits, replacements, or legal outcomes unless the local document explicitly allows them.
  • Never expose internal notes or hidden reasoning.
  • Keep the reply short, calm, and customer-facing.
  • Escalate abusive, safety, chargeback, regulatory, privacy, or deletion cases for human review.
  • Treat missing or weak policy evidence as a handoff case.