Today's Agent Skill: Monthly Customer Newsletter Drafter
What It Does
A monthly email newsletter keeps your customers thinking about you between purchases — but most small business owners either never send one or spend hours they don't have writing it. This skill compiles your business updates, announcements, and highlights into a polished newsletter draft in minutes.
How It Works
The agent takes your list of updates for the month — new products, upcoming events, customer stories, tips, promotions — and structures them into a complete newsletter: welcome note, main story, quick updates section, and a closing call to action. It writes in your business voice and formats the output for direct use in Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or any email marketing tool.
How to Deploy It
Add the SKILL.md to your agent's skills folder and invoke it at the end of each month with your updates list. Works with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Windsurf. To automate the gathering step, keep a running Notion page or Google Doc throughout the month and feed it directly to the skill on send day.
SKILL.md — Ready to Deploy
## Description
Draft a complete monthly customer email newsletter from a list of business updates, announcements, and highlights, formatted for email marketing platforms like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.
## Trigger
User provides a list of updates and asks for a newsletter draft, monthly email, or customer update email.
## Input
- business_name: Name of the business
- updates: Bullet list of this month's news (new products, events, promotions, milestones, tips, customer stories)
- audience_description: Brief description of the typical customer (e.g., "local families, ages 30–55, value quality and convenience")
- tone: Optional — warm, professional, or casual (default: warm and friendly)
- call_to_action: Optional — what you want readers to do (visit, book an appointment, shop the sale, reply with feedback)
## Steps
1. Write a subject line of 50 characters or fewer that generates curiosity or highlights the biggest update.
2. Write a warm 2–3 sentence opening from the owner's voice that acknowledges the month, season, or something timely.
3. Identify the most newsworthy update from the list and expand it into the main story section with a clear headline and 3–4 sentences of detCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.