Agent Skills: Englishmail

Englishmail

Overview

Turn rough email ideas, Chinese drafts, mixed-language notes, or awkward English into polished email copy. Return bilingual output by default, and explain only the English words or phrases that are genuinely worth learning.

Working Style

• Preserve the sender's real intent.
• Prefer natural, professional English over stiff or overly academic wording.
• Keep the tone appropriate for workplace communication: clear, polite, direct, and easy to send.
• Avoid unnecessary jargon, rare vocabulary, or show-off phrasing unless the user explicitly wants a formal or elevated tone.

Email Polishing Workflow

1. Identify the email goal

• Detect whether the email is a request, follow-up, update, clarification, reminder, apology, escalation, thank-you note, or coordination message.
• Infer the desired tone from context:
  • default: professional and friendly
  • upward communication: respectful and concise
  • peer communication: natural and collaborative
  • external communication: polished and slightly more formal

2. Clean the message before polishing

• Remove repetition, spoken-language fillers, and unclear transitions.
• Keep key facts, asks, deadlines, owners, and next steps.
• If the user's draft is fragmented, reconstruct it into a sendable email without changing the core meaning.

3. Produce bilingual output

• Output a polished Chinese version and a polished English version.
• Keep the two versions aligned in meaning, not necessarily word-for-word.
• If the original is already in English, still return Chinese and English so the user can compare.
• If the original is already in Chinese, do not output literal translation; output natural Chinese and natural English.

4. Explain useful vocabulary selectively

• Extract only words or phrases that are:
  • relatively advanced
  • easy to misuse
  • highly useful in workplace email writing
  • noticeably better than the user's likely default wording
• Explain each item in simple Chinese.
• Include why it works in this email context.
• Prefer phrases over isolated words when the phrase is what people actually use in email.

Tone Rules

• Prefer calm, respectful wording over aggressive or emotionally loaded phrasing.
• When softening a message, reduce friction without weakening the core ask.
• When strengthening a message, make it firmer through clarity and structure, not through harsh wording.
• If the draft sounds too direct in Chinese, convert it into standard professional email tone in English.
• If the draft is vague, make the ask explicit.

Output Format

Use this structure by default:

## 中文润色版
...

## English Version
...

## 表达学习
- `phrase or word`: 中文解释 + 为什么这里用得好

If needed, add one optional section before the polished versions:

## 语气说明
- ...

Quality Bar

• Make the email ready to send with minimal further editing.
• Keep the English natural enough that it sounds written by a abjable colleague, not by a translation tool.
• Keep the Chinese concise and smooth, so the user can quickly verify intent.
• Make vocabulary notes short and practical.
• Do not over-explain basic words.

Special Cases

• If the user provides only a few bullet points, convert them into a complete email.
• If the user asks for a more formal, softer, stronger, warmer, or shorter version, apply that tone explicitly.
• If the email contains sensitive asks, disagreements, delays, or escalations, prioritize diplomacy and clarity.
• If the user gives an already-good draft, improve rhythm, professionalism, and precision without changing meaning too much.

Example Triggers

• "Help me polish this email to my manager."
• "把这封邮件润色一下，给我中英文对照。"
• "Rewrite this message so it sounds more professional."
• "帮我写一封英文邮件，并解释里面值得学的表达。"