# Most Obedient

> Turns one modern message - a text, a quick email, a thank-you, an apology, a reply to an invitation - into a letter in the manner of the Regency years (about 1811 to 1820): a salutation and a closing fit for the relationship (a friend, family, a sweetheart, an acquaintance, business), one to four paragraphs with period courtesies, the sender's name and, when the message marks one, a postscript. Built only from the facts the message gives. Every message also gets a verdict on its propriety: most proper, a trifle forward, scandalous, or wants more.

URL: https://most-obedient.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://most-obedient.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- The sweep: the message split into numbered sentences, each flagged from word lists - modern things (phone, text, email, car...), slang and abbreviations (lol, ASAP, gonna...), emoji, shouting in capitals, crude words, words that may mock or insult someone, and orders with no please - plus the page's own lean on the verdict.
- The word-for-word preview: the message with the page's own period stand-ins for slang ("ASAP" -> "at your earliest convenience"), emoji removed and shouting calmed. Not the letter - a taste of what the sweep found.
- The sheet, in three views: the fair copy on laid paper with a dateline the page writes from today's date; the crossed letter (the second half written across the first, a quarter-turn round, as writers did to save postage); and the sealed packet with the address and a wax seal carrying the sender's initials.
- Exports: copy the letter, the letter as .txt, Markdown, JSON, print the sheet; kept letters (in the browser, or in your account when signed in).

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: letter
A verdict by ordered rules, first match wins:
1. wants more - no sentence carries a point (news, a plan, a question, a request, thanks or an apology for something named). No letter; 2-3 questions to answer instead.
2. scandalous - a sentence insults, mocks or gossips about a person. That sentence is struck out (not softened) and listed with the reason; the letter is written from the rest.
3. a trifle forward - a sentence swears, shouts in capitals or gives an order with no please. The letter keeps every point and says it with period manners.
4. most proper - otherwise.
Every modern word, slang term or emoji the letter replaced or dropped is listed with its period stand-in. The model may use only the message: no person, place, date, weekday, season, weather, gift, plan or feeling it does not state, no carriages or candles of its own, nobody called he or she unless the message does, no title added to a name, and no number the message does not hold. The page re-checks every reply: salutation and closing present, every sentence id real, struck lines really left out, every stand-in found in the letter, no modern word left in it, and no capitalised name, number or pronoun the message does not hold.

## About the period
A Regency letter was usually a single sheet folded into its own packet and closed with wax or a wafer; in Britain before the penny post of 1840 the recipient usually paid, by distance and by sheet, which is why some writers crossed their pages. The closings follow the period's habits: affectionate for friends and family, devoted for a sweetheart, sincere for an acquaintance, "your most obedient servant" for business.

## Sources
Built on the SkillSafe skill @jmsktm/letter-writer - https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@jmsktm/letter-writer - (formal and informal letters: the right salutation and closing for the relationship, a clear purpose, one point per paragraph, a courteous close), set in the manners of the Regency letter.
The trend note on the page (Wikipedia's article on this year's film adaptation of an 1811 novel rising from about 5,800 to about 28,700 daily views between September 20 and October 18, 2026) is from the Wikimedia pageviews API - https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/ .
The minutes to copy a letter out by hand are an estimate at 15 words a minute, not a measurement.