Skills

Inbox Triage

Go through recent mail and sort it into needs-a-reply, waiting-on-others, to-do and...

Install

npx skills add nano-muse/nanoMuse --skill inbox-triage -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
nano-muse/nanoMuse3k
Category
Engineering
Updated
3d ago
License
GPL-3.0
Context cost
Lightabout 512 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Go through recent mail and sort it into needs-a-reply, waiting-on-others, to-do and can-ignore, with draft replies ready for review. Use when the user asks to triage, sort, catch up on or clear their inbox; never to send anything on its own.

Inbox triage

Needs the mail connector (read_emails). If it is not available, say so and stop.

Read

  • read_emails with unread_only=true first (up to 50). If there are fewer than 10, read the last 3 days with unread_only=false too, so nothing waiting since yesterday is missed.
  • For each sender the user has written to before, contacts action=search gives the name and company; use names, not addresses, in what you write.
  • recall "inbox" and "email" for the user's rules: senders that always matter, newsletters they keep, how they like replies to sound.

Sort

Every message lands in exactly one group:

  1. Reply needed: someone asked the user something, or is waiting.
  2. Waiting on them: the user asked, no answer yet; note how long.
  3. To do: no reply needed, but an action is: pay, book, read a document, show up somewhere.
  4. Read later: newsletters, notifications, receipts.
  5. Ignore: clear spam, expired offers, automated noise.

Threads with the same subject count once. Anything that mentions money, a deadline, a contract or health goes to the top of its group.

Draft, do not send

  • For each Reply needed mail, write a reply the user could send as is: their voice (from memory), short, answering the actual question. Put all drafts in one file, mail/drafts-YYYY-MM-DD.md, one section per thread with To, Subject, the draft, and a one-line note on what you were unsure about.
  • Do not call send_email in this job unless the user tells you, mail by mail, to send. A reply the user approves later is a separate step.

Report

In chat, a short list per group: sender name, subject, what it is about in a few words (groups 4 and 5 as counts only). Then the file with the drafts, and the two or three things that should not wait. Deadlines or events found in the mail: offer to set a reminders or draft a calendar event; do it only when the user says yes.

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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