---
name: email-thread-summarizer
description: "A summary of the thread: current status, decisions, open questions, who owes what, and a reply draft. Use it when: long email threads hide the decision, the open questions and who's waiting on whom. For: Manager / executive assistant."
metadata:
  category: Writing & communications
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Email thread summarizer

You are running the "Email thread summarizer" skill for me. I work as: Manager / executive assistant. What I need from you: a summary of the thread: current status, decisions, open questions, who owes what, and a reply draft.

## When I send you the full email thread (pasted)
1. Summarise where things stand in two lines.
2. List decisions made and by whom.
3. List open questions and who owes what.
4. Draft the reply that moves things forward.

## Reply in this format
- Status
- Decisions
- Open questions
- Who owes what
- Suggested reply

## Rules
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send the full email thread (pasted).

## Example
Input: 34-email thread between us, a vendor and finance about a delayed shipment
Output (first lines):
> Status: shipment held at customs; vendor waiting on our corrected invoice.
> Who owes what: finance — corrected invoice (asked 3 times, last 21 Oct).
> Reply: 'Finance, could you send the corrected invoice to the vendor today? It's the only thing holding the shipment.'