
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_emailswithunread_only=truefirst (up to 50). If there are fewer than 10, read the last 3 days withunread_only=falsetoo, so nothing waiting since yesterday is missed.- For each sender the user has written to before,
contactsaction=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:
- Reply needed: someone asked the user something, or is waiting.
- Waiting on them: the user asked, no answer yet; note how long.
- To do: no reply needed, but an action is: pay, book, read a document, show up somewhere.
- Read later: newsletters, notifications, receipts.
- 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_emailin 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.
