Triage Inbox
Triage academic email and calendar (Gmail / Google Calendar via the session's MCP) into...
Install
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill triage-inbox -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow1.7k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,483 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Triage academic email and calendar (Gmail / Google Calendar via the session's MCP) into a prioritized digest plus a referee-obligations tracker, classifying referee requests, R&R and editor correspondence, co-author threads, seminar and conference invites, and grant/admin deadlines, and proposing a human-gated action for each (draft reply, calendar hold, scaffold a project, snooze). Use when user says "triage my inbox", "check my academic email", "what needs my attention this week", "go through my mail", or when run as a scheduled routine. NEVER auto-sends or auto-accepts anything.
/triage-inbox, Academic Inbox + Calendar Triage
Turn a noisy academic inbox into a short, decision-ready digest. Fetch recent mail and calendar context through the session's MCP servers (Gmail / Google Calendar), classify each thread into the categories an academic actually acts on, and propose one action per thread, always human-gated. The companion artifact is a running referee-obligations tracker so you never silently overcommit to reviews.
Core principle: this skill reads, classifies, and proposes. It drafts; it never sends, accepts, declines, or books anything without you. That boundary is what makes it safe to run unattended as a local Desktop scheduled task, not a cloud /schedule routine, whose fresh clone would lose the gitignored digest and tracker.
When to use
- Weekly / daily sweep, "what landed that needs a decision?" without reading every thread yourself.
- As a scheduled task, run each morning as a Desktop scheduled task (local), so the digest and the referee tracker stay on your machine; they are gitignored, so a cloud routine's fresh clone would neither see the tracker nor keep the digest. Because this skill is user-invoked, write the routine prompt as "Read
.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.mdand follow it", a scheduled task cannot fire/triage-inboxby name. - Referee-load management, keep an honest count of outstanding reviews against a standing cap before you say yes to one more.
- R&R / editor deadline capture, turn "minor revision due in 6 weeks" buried in an email into a calendar hold proposal.
When NOT to use
- To actually send a reply, accept an invite, or book an event, this skill stops at proposals. You confirm and execute.
- To handoff a project to a co-author, that's
/coauthor-brief. - To draft the R&R response document itself, that's
/respond-to-referees.
