Agent skill

Inbox Triage Live

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Triage the user's REAL inbox through the Gmail connector — not a framework they run by hand.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Inbox Triage Live

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill inbox-triage-live -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills inbox-triage-live --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/inbox-triage-live .claude/skills/inbox-triage-live && 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
inbox-triage-live
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
551 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Triage the user's REAL inbox through the Gmail connector — not a framework they run by hand.

  • Works in 4 steps: Archive (default): no action needed →… → Reply-now (two-minute rule): a real… → Task: needs real work → capture as a… → …
  • Asked to clear my inbox
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Four Verbs and Execution (Cowork), plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Inbox Triage Live is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Triage the user's REAL inbox through the Gmail connector — not a framework they run by hand. Use when asked to clear my inbox, get me to inbox zero on the actual account, triage my unread, or process my email backlog in Cowork. Reads unread via the Gmail connector, sorts every message into archive / reply-now / task / park, applies labels and archives in place, drafts the reply-now messages as real Gmail drafts. Produces a triage-report artifact of what it did and what still needs the user.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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 Productivity & Automation, covering Email management. It works with Gmail. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to clear my inbox
  • Get me to inbox zero on the actual account
  • Triage my unread
  • Process my email backlog in Cowork

Example prompts

  • “/inbox-triage-live”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Archive (default): no action needed → archive; search beats filing.
  2. Reply-now (two-minute rule): a real reply under two minutes → draft it now.
  3. Task: needs real work → capture as a task with the message linked; never left in the inbox as its own reminder.
  4. Park: genuinely waiting-on → @waiting label + a weekly review.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Inbox Triage Live loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 128 tokens; SKILL.md has 551 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~128
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 551 words, ~1,098 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/inbox-triage-live/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
inbox-triage-live
description
Triage the user's REAL inbox through the Gmail connector — not a framework they run by hand. Use when asked to clear my inbox, get me to inbox zero on the actual account, triage my unread, or process my email backlog in Cowork. Reads unread via the Gmail connector, sorts every message into archive / reply-now / task / park, applies labels and archives in place, drafts the reply-now messages as real Gmail drafts. Produces a triage-report artifact of what it did and what still needs the user.

Inbox Triage (Live)

The generic triage skill teaches a system; this one runs it on the real account. In Claude Cowork it reads the user's actual unread mail through the Gmail connector, decides each message, and takes the safe actions (label, archive, draft) itself — leaving only true judgement calls for the human.

What This Skill Produces

  • The triage pass, executed — every unread message assigned one of four verbs and the safe actions applied in the account
  • Reply-now drafts — short replies created as real Gmail drafts (never auto-sent) for the user to review and send
  • A triage-report artifact — a table of what was archived/labelled/drafted, plus the short list of messages that need a human decision

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • Scope — which mailbox/label and how far back (e.g. "all unread", "Primary from the last 7 days")
  • Reply-now boundary — may the skill draft replies, or only classify? (default: draft, never send)
  • Sender rules — VIPs that are never auto-archived; newsletters that always are

Framework: The Four Verbs

  1. Archive (default): no action needed → archive; search beats filing.
  2. Reply-now (two-minute rule): a real reply under two minutes → draft it now.
  3. Task: needs real work → capture as a task with the message linked; never left in the inbox as its own reminder.
  4. Park: genuinely waiting-on → @waiting label + a weekly review.

Execution (Cowork)

Run against the real account; act, don't just advise:

  1. Read — via the Gmail connector, list unread in scope (is:unread + the user's filter). Batch oldest-first; cap at a stated number per pass and report the remainder.
  2. Classify — apply the four verbs. Newsletters/receipts/notifications → archive. Direct asks from real people → reply-now or task.
  3. Act safely — through the connector: add labels (@waiting, @task), archive the archive-bucket, and create Gmail drafts (not sends) for reply-now. Never delete, never send, never touch anything outside scope.
  4. Escalate — anything ambiguous, from a VIP, or legally/financially sensitive is left untouched and listed for the human.
  5. Emit the artifact — the triage report (below). Stop and confirm before a second pass.

Guardrails: draft-only by default; no bulk delete; respect the VIP/never-archive list; if the connector isn't authorised, say so and fall back to producing the rules + a manual pass, not silence.

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Output Format

A Triage Report artifact:

Summary

N processed · A archived · R drafted · T tasks · P parked · H need you

Actions taken
MessageFromVerbAction applied
Needs your decision
  • [subject] — from [sender] — why it was escalated, the suggested verb
Reply-now drafts created
  • [subject] → draft ready in Gmail; one-line summary of the drafted reply

Quality Checks

  • No message was sent or deleted — only labelled, archived, or drafted
  • Every escalated message states why it needs a human
  • VIP/never-archive rules were honoured
  • The report reconciles: processed = archived + drafted + tasks + parked + needs-you
  • The remaining backlog count is stated when a cap was hit

Anti-Patterns

  • Auto-sending replies. Draft only; the human sends.
  • Bulk-deleting to hit zero. Archive, never delete.
  • Silent failure when the connector is missing. Say it, and fall back to a guided manual pass.
  • Re-triaging parked/handled mail on the next pass — respect existing @waiting/@task labels.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Get my actual inbox to zero in Cowork."
  • "Triage my unread Gmail and draft the quick replies."
  • "Process my email backlog — archive the noise, flag what needs me."
  • "Label and archive my newsletters, leave the real messages."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/inbox-triage-live of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Inbox Triage Live

What does Inbox Triage Live do?

Triage the user's REAL inbox through the Gmail connector — not a framework they run by hand. Inbox Triage Live is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Triage the user's REAL inbox through the Gmail connector — not a framework they run by hand.

When should I use Inbox Triage Live?

Inbox Triage Live fits situations like: asked to clear my inbox; get me to inbox zero on the actual account; triage my unread; process my email backlog in Cowork.

How do I install Inbox Triage Live in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill inbox-triage-live -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/inbox-triage-live in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/inbox-triage-live in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Inbox Triage Live in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill inbox-triage-live -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/inbox-triage-live in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/inbox-triage-live in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Inbox Triage Live 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill inbox-triage-live -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/inbox-triage-live, .gemini/skills/inbox-triage-live, .github/skills/inbox-triage-live and .opencode/skills/inbox-triage-live in your project.

What does Inbox Triage Live need to run?

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

Does Inbox Triage Live 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 Inbox Triage Live 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 Inbox Triage Live use?

Inbox Triage Live is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Inbox Triage Live use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k 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 Inbox Triage Live?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Inbox Triage Live: Career-Ops Gmail Lead Plugin (career-ops-hq/career-ops, 74k stars), Gmail (team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives, 827 stars), Connect Apps with Composio (ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, 77k stars) and Gmail Email (open-gitagent/gitagent, 714 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Inbox Triage Live?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.