hermes-skills/skills/email-style-guide/references/welcome-email-pattern.md

Welcome Email Pattern

When drafting a welcome/onboarding email for a new Hermes user, first load the email-style-guide skill for the full formatting rules. The welcome email follows the Gemini-derived style rules.

Formatting requirements

• ## Title + --- divider (per style guide)
• ### section headers only -- no H4+
• Bold lead-ins for paragraph context
• Ordered lists (1. 2. 3.) for accomplishments -- NOT bullet dashes, NOT em dashes
• Unordered lists (hyphens) for simple groupings
• Hyphens not em dashes, full words not contractions, "example:" not "e.g."
• No raw URLs -- all links in [Action Description](URL) format
• H2 rendered as <h2> in HTML, H3 as <h3>, --- as the red accent <hr>

Section structure (in order)

1. Heading + divider: ## Welcome to Hermes, [Name]. then ---
2. What Hermes Is: paragraph explaining Hermes as a personal AI agent on a private server
3. What We've Built: ordered list (1. 2. 3.) of real accomplishments the main user has achieved with their agent. Each item: bold lead-in + hyphen + description. Example: "1. Task name - What was accomplished."
4. Email: two bold lead-in paragraphs. First asks if they want their email set up ("Yahoo access."). Second states the permission policy: Sho'Nuff will not act without explicit approval.
5. Backup & Safety: unordered list (hyphens) of backup layers: live sync, daily backup, provider snapshots, standby recovery, model fallback.
6. Getting Started with Telegram: three numbered steps. Step 1 = create bot via BotFather. Step 2 = get user ID via userinfobot. Step 3 = reply with token + ID + email decision.
7. Commands: unordered list of useful Hermes commands (/queue, /retry, /undo, /clear, /title, /goal, /compress).
8. Server Details: minimal -- primary model (provided by main user) and backup model (built in). No IPs, no SSH, no local model address.
9. Close: Sho'Nuff signature with random closing quote (no "Thanks" or "Regards").

Delivery workflow

1. Draft the full email with body + signature
2. Send draft to Germaine (g@germainebrown.com) for approval, BCC him
3. After approval, send to the recipient (e.g. browo955@yahoo.com), BCC Germaine
4. From: shonuff@germainebrown.com

The style guide (email-style-guide skill) has the definitive rules for HTML rendering, closing quotes, rotating titles, and signature anatomy. Load it before composing the email.