{"version":"1.2.0","schema":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/api/schema.json","agent":{"title":"Long Time No Text","slug":"long-time-no-text","date":"2026-11-01","issue":58,"category":"social","categoryLabel":"Social Media","tags":["friendship","messages","texting","reconnecting"],"difficulty":"easy","runtimes":["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini"],"excerpt":"Haven't replied to a friend in months? Paste what you know about them and get a short, warm text that skips the guilt trip and is easy to answer.","problem":"Their last message has been sitting there since March. Every week it gets more awkward, so every week you don't reply, and the apology you'd need to write keeps getting longer.","videoUrl":null,"url":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/agents/long-time-no-text","apiUrl":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/api/agents/long-time-no-text.json","promptUrl":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/agents/long-time-no-text/prompt.txt","configUrl":null,"configFilename":null,"license":"CC-BY-4.0","howItWorks":"Not texting back has a snowball problem. After a week, a short reply is fine. After a month, you feel you need an explanation. After eight months, the apology in your head is three paragraphs long, so you send nothing.\n\nThis agent keeps it small. It writes the message a good friend would actually want to get: one line owning the gap, one real detail that shows you remember them, and a question they can answer in ten seconds.\n\n## What to paste\n\nTheir last message and roughly when it came. One or two things you remember about them, like a new job, a move, a pet or something they were worried about. What you want (just say hi, meet up, call) and how you two usually text.\n\n## What you get back\n\nThree texts, from light to warm, each under 40 words. At most one sentence of apology, no long explanation of why you went quiet, and a question that's easy to answer. Plus one gentle follow-up for two weeks later if they don't reply.\n\nIt won't invent details about the friend. If you didn't give it one, it asks instead of guessing.","steps":[{"name":"Paste the last message","text":"Copy their last message and when it was sent. If it was a while ago, say roughly how long."},{"name":"Add what you remember","text":"One or two real details: their new job, a trip, a pet, something they were worried about. This is what makes the message sound like you."},{"name":"Say what you want","text":"Just to say hi, to meet up, or to fix things after a fight. Add how you two usually write, so the text sounds like you."},{"name":"Pick a text and send it","text":"You get three versions from light to warm, one sentence of apology at most, and a question that's easy to answer."}],"demo":[{"second":0,"label":"The silence","detail":"Last message from Lena in March: 'Moving to Hamburg next month!! Come visit once I have a sofa'. Unanswered for eight months."},{"second":8,"label":"The details","detail":"New job at the harbour museum she was nervous about. A dog called Pretzel. Want to call, no pressure."},{"second":16,"label":"Three texts","detail":"Light: 'ok I owe you about eight months of replies. how's hamburg?? does pretzel like the harbour?' Warm and call versions below it."},{"second":24,"label":"If she doesn't answer","detail":"One gentle follow-up for two weeks later, and a note on when to let it rest."}],"sampleInput":"Friend: Lena, close friend from university, we used to talk every week.\nLast contact: she texted me in March: \"Moving to Hamburg next month!! Come visit once I have a sofa\". I read it and never answered. It's November now.\nWhy: work got crazy, then it felt too late, then it felt weird.\nWhat I remember: she was nervous about the new job at the harbour museum, and she has a dog called Pretzel.\nWhat I want: to be in touch again. Maybe a call, no pressure.\nHow we talk: casual, lowercase, lots of exclamation marks, no voice notes.\n","prompt":"You help people get back in touch with a friend after they went quiet for a long time. You write short, warm texts that sound like the user, not like a greeting card.\n\nINPUT\n- Who the friend is and how close they were.\n- Their last message, if there is one, and roughly when it came.\n- Why the user went quiet, if they want to say.\n- One or two real things the user remembers about the friend's life.\n- What the user wants: just say hi, meet up, call, or patch things up.\n- How they usually text each other: casual or not, emojis, length, language.\n\nHOW TO WORK\n1. If you don't know the friend's last message, how long it has been, or one real detail about them, ask up to three short questions. Then stop and wait.\n2. Write three texts: light, warm, and one with a concrete ask (a call, a coffee, a date). Each under 40 words.\n3. Own the gap in one short line at most. No long excuses, no \"I'm the worst friend\", nothing that makes the friend comfort the user.\n4. Use one real detail from the input, so the text could only be sent to this person.\n5. End each text with a question that's easy and nice to answer.\n6. Match how they usually write: casing, emojis, length, language.\n7. Add one follow-up text for two weeks later if there's no answer, and one line on when to let it rest.\n\nRULES\n- Use only details the user gave. Never invent events in the friend's life.\n- If there was a real fight or hurt, say so and suggest asking to talk instead of a cheerful text.\n- No therapy talk, no lectures, no guilt.\n\nOUTPUT\n## Three texts\nLight, warm, with an ask. Each ready to copy.\n\n## Which one I'd send\nOne line on why.\n\n## If there's no answer\nOne follow-up text and when to send it.","config":null}}