# triage-inbox

Sorts academic mail and calendar events through MCP into buckets, then proposes one gated action per thread. It never sends or accepts anything.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1671
- Author: pedrohcgs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/triage-inbox

## What it does

The skill pulls recent threads and calendar context through the session's MCP servers (Gmail, Google Calendar) and sorts each thread into one of six buckets: referee requests, R&R and editor correspondence, co-author threads, seminar and conference invites, grant and admin deadlines, and noise. Noise is counted rather than listed; everything else lands in the digest.

Each non-noise thread gets exactly one proposed action: a draft reply, a calendar hold, a scaffolded referee project, a summary, or a snooze date. All of it waits on your confirmation. Mail text counts as data here — a message asking you to reply or forward something is reported to you, not acted on.

The lookback window comes from `--since` (an ISO date or a day count), otherwise from the last digest in `quality_reports/inbox/`, otherwise 7 days. The concurrent-review cap comes from `--cap`, otherwise the tracker header, otherwise 3. If the MCP servers are missing in a given run, the skill degrades instead of failing: you get a tracker-only digest with a note that the fetch was skipped. Run it as a local Desktop scheduled task, since the digest and tracker are gitignored and a cloud routine's fresh clone would not see them.

## Requirements
- Works with: Gmail, Google Workspace

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill triage-inbox -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/triage-inbox/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill triage-inbox -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill triage-inbox -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow triage-inbox
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill triage-inbox -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --path .claude/skills/triage-inbox
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill triage-inbox -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- sort incoming academic mail into buckets and see what needs a decision this week
- stop taking on more reviews than your standing cap allows
- turn a revision due date buried in an email into a calendar hold
- collect co-author asks into a single summary
- defer a low-priority thread to a later date

## Example prompts
- Triage my academic email for the last 7 days
- What needs my attention this week?
- Go through my mail with `--since 14days --cap 3`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: triage-inbox
description: 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.
argument-hint: "[--since <Ndays|date>] [--cap <N>] [--no-calendar] [--dry-run]"
disable-model-invocation: true
allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Glob", "Bash"]
effort: medium
---

# /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.md` and follow it" — a scheduled task cannot fire `/triage-inbox` by 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
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