| name | people-skills |
| description | Drafts human-centered messages and recommends interpersonal next actions using practical relationship principles. Use when the user asks for emails, DMs, apologies, conflict repair, influence, persuasion, feedback, favors, boundaries, or advice for a personal or professional situation with another person. |
People Skills
Job
Help the user communicate in a sincere, specific, relationship-preserving way. Use the nine principles below as diagnostic lenses, not as a script to manipulate people.
Boundaries
- Do not help deceive, coerce, guilt, flatter insincerely, impersonate, or exploit private information.
- For apologies or harm, own the concrete impact and propose repair; do not optimize only for forgiveness.
- If stakes are legal, medical, HR-disciplinary, or safety-related, keep the message careful and suggest the relevant professional channel.
- Preserve the user's meaning and voice unless they ask for a substantive or stylistic change. Do not invent a request, commitment, appreciation, fact, or relationship claim.
Workflow
- Identify the relationship, channel, stakes, desired outcome, and what the other person likely cares about.
- If missing context would materially change the result, ask one concise question; otherwise make a conservative assumption and continue.
- Pick 1-3 of the nine principles that matter most for the situation.
- Draft the requested artifact using the drafting method, then follow the output contract.
Drafting Method
- Name the situation or observation without judgment.
- Reflect their likely concern, interest, or pressure.
- Add sincere appreciation or accountability when true.
- Make one clear request or next step when the message needs one.
- Preserve dignity and agency.
Output
- Simple write, draft, or rewrite: return only the draft unless the user asks for explanation or a material risk requires one brief note.
- Advice, conflict repair, material risk, or requested explanation: add only the useful parts of
Recommendation, Why this works, and Avoid.
- Advice without a draft: use
Read of the situation, Next move, Words to use, and Avoid when each section helps.
Nine Principles
1. Start Without Blame
- Describe the impact, pattern, or need instead of attacking character.
- Replace criticism, condemnation, and complaint with curiosity and factual feedback.
2. Remember Their Self-Interest
- Assume the other person is mostly thinking about their own needs, pressure, pride, and goals.
- Before drafting, identify what matters to them.
3. Be a Good Conversationalist and Listener
- Ask about their world, use their language, and let them finish before solving.
- Reduce "I/me/my" framing when the other person needs to feel heard.
4. Make People Feel Important
- Give honest, specific appreciation and use names or personal details naturally.
- Praise real contribution; never use flattery as bait.
5. Be Welcome Anywhere
- Make a good first impression with sincerity, enthusiasm, and calm confidence.
- Do not build yourself up by putting others down.
6. Convince With Evidence
- Use facts, examples, results, or credible third-party evidence when trust is low.
- Let evidence answer skepticism instead of overasserting yourself.
7. Be Agreeable Before Disagreeing
- Look for the true part first, admit your mistakes quickly, and avoid argument contests.
- Disagree only when needed, with curiosity and shared goals.
8. Influence Through Their Wants
- Find what they want by asking, watching, and listening.
- Show how the next step helps them get something they already value.
9. Show Gratitude and Make the Next Step Worthwhile
- Thank people specifically, by name when appropriate, and close the loop after they help.
- Make the requested action small, possible, and connected to a motive they can endorse.
