Official agent skill

Email Analytics

by microsoft in microsoft/work-iq

Analyze your email patterns over a time period — volume trends, top senders, response time estimates, busiest days, and unread backlog statistics.

OfficialCustom licenceAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Email Analytics

skills CLI
$ npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill email-analytics -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install microsoft/work-iq email-analytics --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/work-iq.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/email-analytics .claude/skills/email-analytics && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
email-analytics
GitHub stars
1k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
816 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
18
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Analyze your email patterns over a time period — volume trends, top senders, response time estimates, busiest days, and unread backlog statistics.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the User → Retrieve Received Emails → Retrieve Sent Emails → …
  • Tasks that involve Statistics
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Instructions, Output Format and Parameters, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Email Analytics is an agent skill from microsoft/work-iq, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Analyze your email patterns over a time period — volume trends, top senders, response time estimates, busiest days, and unread backlog statistics.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Statistics. The repository describes itself as: MCP Server and CLI for accessing Work IQ.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Statistics

Example prompts

  • “/email-analytics”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify the User
  2. Retrieve Received Emails
  3. Retrieve Sent Emails
  4. Compute Analytics
  5. Present the Analytics Dashboard

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1060873. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Email Analytics loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 816 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 816 words (~2,234 tokens).

“Get a data‑driven view of your email life. This skill scans your inbox and sent folder over a time period, crunches the numbers, and presents a formatted analytics dashboard — volume by day, top senders, response patterns, busiest hours, flagged…”

— opening of SKILL.md by microsoft, Custom licence
name
email-analytics

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/email-analytics of microsoft/work-iq.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1060873

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Statistical Powerspacering-net/codeg3.8k2 repos~3.6kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT
AI Daily DigestvigorX777/ai-daily-digest1.6k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassNone

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Questions about Email Analytics

What does Email Analytics do?

Analyze your email patterns over a time period — volume trends, top senders, response time estimates, busiest days, and unread backlog statistics. Email Analytics is an agent skill from microsoft/work-iq, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Analyze your email patterns over a time period — volume trends, top senders, response time estimates, busiest days, and unread backlog statistics.

When should I use Email Analytics?

Email Analytics fits situations like: tasks that involve Statistics.

How do I install Email Analytics in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill email-analytics -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/email-analytics in microsoft/work-iq) into .claude/skills/email-analytics in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Email Analytics in Codex?

Run `npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill email-analytics -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/workiq-productivity/skills/email-analytics in microsoft/work-iq) into .agents/skills/email-analytics in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Email Analytics in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add microsoft/work-iq --skill email-analytics -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/email-analytics, .gemini/skills/email-analytics, .github/skills/email-analytics and .opencode/skills/email-analytics in your project.

What does Email Analytics need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Email Analytics is instructions for the agent only.

Does Email Analytics access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Email Analytics safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Email Analytics use?

Email Analytics has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Email Analytics use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Email Analytics?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Email Analytics: Sandbox Bench (vercel/next.js, 143k stars), Statistical Analysis (spacering-net/codeg, 3.8k stars), Statsmodels (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.6k stars) and Statistical Power (spacering-net/codeg, 3.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Email Analytics?

microsoft (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in microsoft/work-iq, which has 1,029 GitHub stars. The repository holds 18 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: microsoft/work-iq on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.