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Use this skill to send follow-up reminders from your agent

Install one Pipa skill and your agent can schedule simple one-shot follow-up reminders for you.

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One useful piece of Pipa is being able to hand off tracking and follow-up after an agent session is done.

This skill does not bring all of Pipa's automation system with it. It just makes one small part available outside Pipa: one-shot follow-up reminders from any agent that can use skills, including OpenCode, Claude, Codex, and more.

A small reminder, right where the work is happening

This is for small follow-ups that are not quite worth opening a task manager for. If something comes up mid-session, ask your agent to save it. Pipa will email the reminder later.

How to use it

Ask your agent to install the skill for you:

Install the Pipa follow-up reminders skill for me.

Run this global install command:

npx skills add lunchpaillola/pipa-skills --skill pipa-follow-up-reminders -g -y

If one unsupported runtime reports an install warning, ignore it as long as this agent can use the skill.

If you cannot install skills directly, read this skill file instead:
https://github.com/lunchpaillola/pipa-skills/blob/main/skills/pipa-follow-up-reminders/SKILL.md

Then read the skill instructions and help me finish setup so I can schedule email reminders when I ask.

The skill is in the Pipa skills repo:

https://github.com/lunchpaillola/pipa-skills

Then ask for a reminder in plain language:

“Remind me tomorrow morning to follow up on this.”
“Follow up with me Friday about the proposal.”
“Email me in two hours to check the deploy.”
“Remind me Friday morning to follow up on this PR if nobody has reviewed it.”

When to use it

  • Remind yourself when something needs to come back later.
  • Shorten your todo list by sending tiny future tasks to your agent.
  • Close the loop on proposals, intros, and decisions without keeping the next nudge in your head.
  • Schedule checks for deploys, launches, or handoffs at the moment you think of them.
  • Come back to a bug, idea, or decision when you actually have time for it.

One-shot email reminders only. No recurring reminders. No task manager. No new dashboard.

Conclusion

The reminder usually appears while you are already working with an agent. The file, decision, PR, bug, or idea is right there.

You should not have to stop, switch tools, and create a task. Hand it off in the same thread and keep moving.

If your agent can use skills, copy the prompt above, install the skill, and use it the next time a follow-up is too small to manage but too important to forget.

Use this skill to send follow-up reminders from your agent