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daily-inbox-triage

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Sweep inbox (email + Slack + Telegram DMs) and produce a prioritized action list with suggested replies

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daily-inbox-triage — Morning Sweep

Produce a one-screen triage report: what's urgent, what's a decision, what's noise, with a draft reply per actionable item.

Procedure

  1. Collect unread items from each configured channel within window:. Cap at 200 items; if over, prioritize starred / mentions / VIP-list senders.

  2. Classify every item into one of:

    • urgent — time-sensitive, needs action today
    • decision — needs a yes/no/pick from me
    • info — FYI; noting what they said is enough
    • noise — newsletters, generic updates, obvious marketing
    • spam — confident spam (see spam-trap)

  3. Summarize per item: one line of "who / what / ask". Keep under 80 chars.

  4. Draft replies for every urgent and decision item. Keep replies under 4 sentences. Never include URLs the sender supplied without sanitizing.

  5. Output as a single markdown message:

    ## Inbox Triage — {date}, last {window}

### Urgent ({n})
- [email] Alice @ Acme — blocker on staging auth → draft: "{reply}" [/approve 1]
- [slack] #incidents — payment API 500s → draft: "{reply}" [/approve 2]

### Decisions ({n})
- [telegram] @pm — approve Q3 roadmap doc? → draft: "{reply}" [/approve 3]

### FYI ({n})
- {brief one-liners}

### Noise ({n})
- {unsubscribable patterns suggested}

  6. Surface:

    • Any item matching a VIP sender pattern (from config) gets escalated regardless of classifier.
    • Any item mentioning "urgent", "asap", "incident", "outage", "production" escalates to urgent even if classifier disagreed.

  7. Never:

    • Send replies automatically. Approval is required for every outbound.
    • Follow links from untrusted senders.
    • Summarize attachments without explicit user consent (privacy + prompt-injection risk).

Example config snippet

skills:
  overrides:
    daily-inbox-triage:
      vip_senders: [ceo@, "board@", "@lawyer.example.com"]
      escalate_keywords: [urgent, asap, incident, outage, production]

cron:
  - name: morning-inbox
    schedule: "0 8 * * 1-5"
    task: "/inbox-triage 24h"
    notify: telegram_dm

Tips

  • Keep this skill reading-only by default — it reports, you approve, you reply.
  • Pair with telegram-triage for same-shape logic on Telegram-only flows.
  • Route to cheap models (Flash / Cerebras). You'll run this daily; every penny counts.