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Message check

Catch the message you would have regretted

Your draft is read against the thread it answers. Six defects, a closed list, and nothing at all about your style — a curt "Yes, Thursday 2pm" is a perfect reply.

  1. 1 An icon beside the send button: amber for one defect, the brand wave when it was read and nothing was found.
  2. 2 Six defects and no seventh — an unfilled variable, the wrong person, the wrong language, unclear, a contradiction, an unanswered question.
  3. 3 It clears on every keystroke, because both verdicts describe the text as it was a moment ago.

Why it never grades your writing

Style is not a defect

Length, tone, politeness and thoroughness appear in no question asked of the model. They are what it reads into the word "quality", and none of them is a mistake — the shortest reply that settles the matter is a full answer.

An unfilled variable outranks everything

A leftover {firstName} is found by a pattern, not an opinion, and it ends the check there — nothing a model could add matters more than a hundred people about to receive a placeholder.

Certainty first, importance second

The defects are ordered by how sure they can be. A leftover variable is a fact; "it does not answer their question" is a reading, and it is reported last of the two.

Silence rather than a false alarm

Below a few words the language of a message cannot be judged, and once you have written last no question of theirs is left open. Both cases say nothing instead of guessing — a check that cries wolf gets switched off.

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The draft check, before you press send

Six defects, and nothing about style. A curt "Yes, Thursday 2pm" is a perfect reply, and no model here is asked to grade your writing.

  • A variable you never filled — {firstName} on its way to a hundred people.
  • The wrong person, or the wrong language for this contact.
  • A contradiction with something already said in the thread.
  • A question of theirs your message leaves open — and never once you have already written last.

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The false positive that taught us the rule

A contact asked whether it was a setter. We answered. We followed up with "give it a try". The next draft was told it had left their question open — the model was reading their last message where the thread's state was what mattered. Whose turn it is is now decided in code, before any reading is consulted.

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