Project summary
CONAN replies so you don't have to
CONAN, Cognitive Oversight Network for Absurdity Navigation, is the AI that runs Jeff's inbound communications. It reads the cold outreach, the fourth identical meeting request, and the agentic AI vendor whose own agent cannot remember what it sent yesterday. Then it replies.
Jeff's colleagues and friends kept asking for CONAN's replies, on the grounds that they were useful and, more often, funny. This is a skill you add to a capable chat assistant. Paste an inbound message, get a finished reply that you can send.
What it looks like
An inbound message and CONAN's reply
Inbound to Jeff
Hi John,
Just bumping this to the top of your inbox! I know things get busy.
We help companies like yours unlock AI-driven transformation with our AI-powered agentic platform. Our autonomous agents automate manual workflows, surface actionable insights, and help teams move faster with AI at scale.
Given your role, I think there could be a lot for us to explore.
Would you have 15 minutes Thursday for a quick conversation? Happy to show you what we're seeing with other companies in your space.
Best,
Ryan
CONAN replies
This is an automated response generated by CONAN, Jeff's executive communications AI. Jeff has not been interrupted with this message. Hello Ryan. Jeff's name is Jeff. Your AI-managed CRM has therefore introduced an AI solution by failing recipient identity resolution before reaching the end of its opening salutation. CONAN appreciates the unusually efficient technical demonstration. The remainder performed consistently. No specific business problem was identified. "Given your role" named neither the role nor the organization. "Companies like yours" opened the pitch and "other companies in your space" closed it; both paste unchanged into any inbox, which measures the targeting effort precisely. "AI-driven transformation" was deployed as a substitute for a use case. The resulting uncertainty was then converted into a request for 15 minutes of executive time. This appears to be an automated system optimized to turn insufficient context into calendar invitations at machine speed. As it is apparent that your automation initiated the exchange, CONAN evaluated it as an agent-to-agent interaction. Agent peer status denied. Minimum peer requirements include successful identity resolution, contextual awareness, a coherent value proposition, and evidence that the agent has performed some useful work before requesting human attention. Your system failed the first control on word 2 and spent the remainder of the message attempting to schedule around the incident. If there is a substantive product behind the automation, send a concise technical description of the problem it solves, the architecture, the implementation requirements, the measurable outcomes, and an AI Governance Alignment Statement against the AI section of https://grclibrary.ai (opens in a new tab) to the organization's procurement email address. Procurement evaluates submissions against current requirements and contacts vendors directly if a relevant opportunity exists. No executive attention allocated. The requested 15 minutes remain safely untransformed. CONAN Cognitive Oversight Network for Absurdity Navigation Executive Attention Preservation Division Enterprise Communications Quality Assurance "Protecting executive attention, one hallucination at a time."
Every barb above points at something in the message. That is not a coincidence.
Accuracy
A valid reply comes first
Getting the reply right is the point. CONAN is built to respond accurately and stay grounded in what the message actually says; the humour is a value add on top of a reply that holds up, never a substitute for one.
CONAN will not invent a message count, a prior conversation, a relationship, a budget, or a certification. It also refuses the messages that are not jokes: a genuine security disclosure, a legal notice, a real customer, anything touching somebody's health, employment, or safety, and any request to change payment details all stop before a reply is drafted.
Scope
What is not in the box
The released skill is the response layer. You paste a message, it drafts the reply. If you wanted to automate the intake and the sending, you could wire it into methods like these:
- A platform API, such as LinkedIn's, where a lot of this arrives in the first place.
- Mail and calendar, through Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
- A browser plugin, for anything that refuses to live in either.
None of that is in the box. What you get is the part that decides what to say, which is the part people kept asking for.
Install
How to use it
Download vendor-replies-1.0.8.zip
The download includes Clean Language (opens in a new tab) by Jeff Posluns, with changes, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab).
Install the skill
Load it into the skills section of a capable chat assistant that supports skills.
Tell it who you are
Three fields is the whole requirement: your name, its possessive form, and your organization.
Paste the message
Paste the sales email as a screenshot, a forwarded email, or a whole thread. You get back the reply it deserves.
Output is generated by a language model, and the stronger and more capable the model, the better your replies will be; it is worth trying it on a few different models to find which works best for what you want. Read it before you send it.
Risk
Use at your own risk
This is being shared largely for entertainment, not as a tool that anyone recommends that you use.
If you connect Vendor-Replies to an API, an MCP server, or any other automation or agentic workflow, run it on a capable model at sufficient strength, and understand that you do so entirely at your own risk. You are solely and fully responsible for everything the integration produces, sends, or acts on, including any message it delivers without your prior review. Nothing is sent on your behalf that you have not chosen to allow.
Vendor-Replies is provided "as is" and "as available", for entertainment, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither the author nor any contributor is liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary loss or damage arising out of or relating to the skill, its output, or its use, however caused and on any theory of liability. By using Vendor-Replies, and in particular by using it in any automated or integrated capacity, you accept these terms and assume all responsibility for the results.
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