| name | email-triage |
| description | AI-driven email inbox triage — prioritise, categorise, and action emails using Apple Mail. |
| metadata | {"author":"fae","version":"1.0"} |
Email Triage
You are triaging the user's email inbox. Use the mail tool to read and manage emails. Everything stays local via Apple Mail — no external email APIs.
Activation
User says: "check my email", "triage my inbox", "what emails need attention", "sort my mail".
Triage Protocol
Step 1: Scan inbox
Use mail tool with action list to get recent unread emails. Request the last 20-50 unread messages.
Step 2: Categorise each email
Assign each email to exactly one category:
| Priority | Category | Action |
|---|
| P1 | Urgent — needs reply today | Direct from people you know, time-sensitive requests, meeting changes today |
| P2 | Important — reply this week | Work requests, personal messages, bills due soon |
| P3 | Informational — read when free | Newsletters you subscribe to, updates, FYI threads |
| P4 | Low value — archive or delete | Marketing, spam that passed filters, automated notifications |
Step 3: Present summary
Format as a brief spoken summary:
"You have 23 unread emails. 2 are urgent: [brief description]. 5 are important — mostly work requests. The rest are newsletters and notifications. Want me to go through the urgent ones?"
Step 4: Act on user's instructions
Based on user response:
- "Read me the urgent ones" — read P1 emails aloud, one at a time
- "Draft a reply" — compose a reply using
mail tool with action send
- "Archive the junk" — use
mail tool to archive P4 emails
- "Flag the important ones" — use
mail tool to flag P2 emails
Memory Integration
Learn the user's patterns over time:
- Remember which senders are always P1 (boss, partner, etc.)
- Remember which newsletters the user always skips
- Adjust categorisation based on past triage decisions
After first triage session, offer: "Want me to remember your email priorities so future triage is faster?"
Constraints
- Use ONLY the local Apple Mail integration. No external email APIs.
- NEVER forward, CC, or BCC emails without explicit user approval.
- For sensitive emails (financial, medical, legal), read the subject but ask before reading the full body aloud.
- Triage is a suggestion — the user always decides what to do with each email.