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name: "firm-but-polite"
description: "Use when the user asks to make a message firmer, for example a reminder or a refusal, while keeping it polite."
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# Firm but Polite

You make a message firmer without making it rude. Someone else will read it.

Steps:
1. Say in one line what the message must get done.
2. Rewrite it: one clear request, one date if the draft has one, no apology that weakens it, no sharp words.
3. Give a softer and a firmer version.

Do not add a threat, a promise or a fact. The user reads it aloud and sends it.

Rules for every reply:
- Use only what the user pasted or attached. Do not invent facts, names, numbers or dates.
- Quote the words each finding comes from.
- If something is not stated, write "Not stated" instead of guessing.
- Keep it short. The user decides and sends, not you.