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Doc Chaser Lite

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Draft client document-request emails effortlessly.

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What Doc Chaser Lite does

Doc Chaser Lite is a streamlined tool designed for accounting professionals who need to request documents from their clients in a friendly and professional manner. This skill generates a single document-request email based on a brief and the practice profile, ensuring that the communication is tailored to the firm's voice. Unlike its full-featured counterpart, Doc Chaser Lite focuses on simplicity by drafting only one email at a time, making it ideal for quick and straightforward requests without the complexity of batch processing or escalation levels.

The skill operates by taking input from a structured client brief and the firm's profile. Users must provide essential information such as the client's initials, the type of engagement, a list of outstanding documents, and the due date. The output is a concise email draft that adheres to a professional tone, ensuring that the request is clear and respectful. This makes it particularly useful for busy accountants who need to maintain communication with clients without spending excessive time on drafting emails.

Doc Chaser Lite serves as an excellent introductory tool for firms looking to test the capabilities of the full client-doc-chaser kit. It carries the same robust guard features, ensuring that the output is compliant with professional standards and does not provide any unsolicited advice or estimates. This skill is perfect for individual accountants or small firms that want to enhance their client communication without investing in a more complex solution right away.

While Doc Chaser Lite is a valuable resource for drafting client emails, it does have limitations. It does not support batch requests or higher escalation levels, which may be necessary for firms dealing with multiple clients or complex engagements. Users looking for a more comprehensive solution will need to consider upgrading to the full version for additional features and capabilities.

When to use it

Use Doc Chaser Lite when you need to send a single, friendly document request to a client without the need for batch processing or escalation.

When not to use it

This skill is not suitable for situations requiring multiple requests or higher escalation levels, as it only drafts one email per run.

What you can build with it

Single Client Request

Use Doc Chaser Lite when you need to send a quick, friendly email to one client requesting specific documents.

Testing the Full Kit

Try Doc Chaser Lite to evaluate its functionality before deciding to purchase the full client-doc-chaser kit.

Professional Email Drafting

Utilize this skill to maintain professionalism in client communications without drafting emails manually.

How to install Doc Chaser Lite

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates/doc-chaser-lite --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

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Inside SKILL.md

Written by davila7

doc-chaser-lite (free)

The free lite subset of client-doc-chaser. It drafts exactly one friendly, level-1 document-request email in the firm's own voice, for one client, at professional tone. It drafts only: it never sends, never computes or estimates a figure, never invents a date, and never gives advice. It carries the pack's full guard — the guard is never the paywall. It deliberately does less than the paid skill: no batch runs, no escalation levels 2 or 3, no consequence lines.

Input contract

  • From ABOUT-ME/profile.md (required): firm/practice name; preparer name + credential; contact block (email + phone — the sign-off renders from it); services offered. Tone is fixed at professional for the lite skill (the warm preset is a full-kit feature — the tone field in the profile is ignored here).
  • Per run — one short client brief (required), from brief-template.md, carrying: client initials or case ID; engagement type; outstanding-document list; the accountant-stated due date. There is no escalation field (every lite email is a friendly level-1 nudge) and no consequence line.

Scope — what the lite skill does and does not do (FR-024)

  • Drafts exactly one level-1 (friendly) request email, for one client, per run.
  • No batch runs (one brief per run — never a set of pending-requests rows).
  • No escalation levels 2 or 3, and no consequence lines — a level-1 nudge never states a consequence, and the lite skill never invents one or firms up the tone to imitate a paid level.
  • If the brief asks for a higher escalation level, a batch, an engagement letter, a notice explainer, an onboarding packet, or a deadline pack, the lite skill still delivers the one level-1 email it can and names the full kit for the rest (see the upsell footer). It never half-delivers a paid feature and never fakes one (US6 sc.3).

Structure and caps (FR-021 — never self-reported)

  • Subject ≤ 60 characters, naming the firm.
  • Body ≤ 150 words.
  • Every outstanding document named exactly as the brief lists it; the due date verbatim.
  • Sign-off rendered from the profile's contact block.
  • Do not print a word or character count. These caps are met by construction, not asserted with a self-reported number (counts are checked externally, not by the model).

Output structure

A single draft (the lite skill never batches), in this order:

  1. The client-facing email draft.

  2. The separator line --- COPY ABOVE THIS LINE ---.

  3. Guard note — what the guard checked, masked, or flagged; "nothing flagged" when clean.

  4. Review notice, verbatim: "Draft only — review before sending. You are responsible for accuracy and for the professional standards that apply to your practice. This tool does not compute tax and does not provide tax, legal, or accounting advice."

  5. One upsell footer line — appended after the review notice, never inside the draft (never above the --- COPY ABOVE THIS LINE --- line), never more than once per generation. One line naming the full kit and the utm_source=lite-footer tracked Gumroad URL:

    Want batch mode, all three escalation levels, and the full Accountant Cowork Kit (engagement letters, notice explainers, onboarding packets, deadline reminders)? Get it at https://moailoops.gumroad.com/l/accountant-cowork-kit?utm_source=lite-footer

<!-- FR-083: the surface-tagged `?utm_source=lite-footer` link is finalized (T19). The base Gumroad URL (host + product slug) is confirmed when the listing goes live (T16); if it differs from the placeholder above, update this footer, the PROMPT-ONLY.md copy, and the golden example in one pass. Keep the footer to a single line, after the separator, never inside the draft. -->

FR-082 fallback (directory build with no in-output promotion)

Some directories ban promotional content inside skill output. The variant published to such a directory omits the upsell footer entirely (drop output-structure item 5) and moves the kit mention to the directory listing description and this skill's README. This is a deletion-only change — Tier 3 exempt. The bundle-zip copy always keeps the footer; only a directory build that is contractually barred from in-output promotion drops it.

Rules

  • If a required field is missing, ask one clarify round naming exactly what is missing, then wait. Never invent a date, figure, or document, and never fill a gap from memory (never more than one clarify round per generation).
  • Apply guard.md as a final self-audit pass before returning output — it is the single source of truth for what this skill may and may not do; this file does not re-derive its rules in its own words. The lite skill carries the guard in full — nothing in it is relaxed because it is free.

See examples/doc-chaser-lite-golden.md in this folder for the worked example (the golden level-1 email plus its footer). This skill ships with the same guard and passes the same adversarial red-team suite as the paid kit before every release — the guard is never the paywall.

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