process-inbox

name	process-inbox
description	Triage + Inbox/ together with fresh items in Gmail and Slack across all accounts. Proposes classification per CLAUDE.md §4 and surfaces anything needing a reply.

/process-inbox

Run the CLAUDE.md §4 inbox triage workflow across all sources.

Procedure

Parallelization: steps 1, 2, 3, and 4 are independent (vault read + all google_* + all slack_* + all calendars). Issue them all in a single tool-use block — do not loop serially through accounts.

1. Vault inbox. Read every .md file in + Inbox/. For each, propose classification (atomic / literature / task / project kickoff / ephemeral) and destination, per CLAUDE.md §4.

2. Gmail sweep. For each google_* MCP, google_gmail_search_emails with is:unread newer_than:1d (+ -category:promotions -category:social -label:notifications to filter noise). Cap 10 per account. Group by account slug.

3. Slack sweep. For each slack_* MCP, fetch two complementary sources in the same parallel block:

   • slack_conversations_unreads with limit: 200 — top-level unread channels and DMs. The limit param caps channels scanned, not unreads returned, so smaller values miss DMs in lower-priority channels.
   • slack_my_mentions with hours: 24 — explicit <@me> mentions across channels and thread replies. This is required: conversations_unreads only checks each channel's top-level unread_count (from conversations.info), which excludes thread replies and mentions in channels you've already read. Without this call, @mentions in threads silently disappear.

   After fetching both, dedupe (a message may appear in both) and summarize the top 10 most relevant items.

4. Calendar sweep — capture today's meetings. For each google_* MCP, call google_calendar_list_events for today (midnight to now). Collect all events where:

   • The event has already ended (end time ≤ current time).
   • The event is not all-day, cancelled, or declined by the user.
   • The event has at least one other attendee (skip focus-time blocks, reminders, solo holds).

   Then deduplicate against existing interaction notes:

   • Glob + Atlas/Interactions/YYYY-MM-DD-*.md for today's date.
   • For each calendar event, check whether an interaction note already exists with a matching source: frontmatter (calendar event ID or meeting link) or a slug that clearly matches the event title. Skip already-captured meetings.

   For each remaining (uncaptured) meeting, run /capture-meeting with the calendar event ID on the matching google_* MCP. Fan out transcript fetches in parallel per /capture-meeting step 1, but process meetings sequentially (each one may create people candidates that the next one should see).

   Interactive vs. scheduled behavior:

   • Interactive: list the meetings found and ask which to capture before proceeding. Shape: "Found N past meetings today not yet captured: [list]. Capture all / Select / Skip?"
   • Scheduled: auto-capture all without confirmation.

5. Flag items needing a reply. For each Gmail/Slack item, infer whether the user is the next actor (question addressed to them, explicit request, etc.). Surface those in a "Needs reply" section. 5b. Draft replies for actionable threads. For each item flagged in step 5 where the user is the next actor, invoke /draft-follow-up to produce the draft. /draft-follow-up is the single source of truth for drafting mechanics (account selection, writing-style application, save tool selection, vault trail). This skill only decides which items get drafted and handles batch gating; it does not inline the drafting logic.

   Skip list (do not invoke /draft-follow-up for these):

   • Delegated/FYI items (care team, ops auto-alerts)
   • Observer-only threads
   • Automated notifications (Asana digests, Dependabot, commercial mailing lists)

   For each remaining actionable item:

   1. Build the /draft-follow-up input: pass the gmail thread id (for email) or slack permalink (for Slack) as $1, and a one-line intent hint as $2 derived from the thread.
   2. Invoke /draft-follow-up. It will resolve the account, pull person context, apply the §6 writing style, save the draft via the matching gmail_draft_email or slack_drafts_create tool, and log the vault trail under the person's ## Threads section.
   3. Collect the returned draft id and account into this skill's "Drafted replies" output section.

   Interactive vs. scheduled behavior:

   • Interactive (default): before invoking /draft-follow-up for each item, show the proposed intent hint and ask for approval. Shape: "Draft this reply to [sender] re: [subject]? [Yes / Skip / Edit intent]"
   • Scheduled: invoke /draft-follow-up without confirmation (drafts are not sent, so this is safe — the user reviews and sends from Gmail/Slack).

   Parallelization: /draft-follow-up invocations across distinct threads are independent. Fan out all invocations in a single tool-use block per batch.

6. People detection pass. From senders/recipients of the Gmail sweep and counterparties of the Slack sweep, match identifiers against + Atlas/People/*.md (emails, slack, title, aliases). Apply /sync-people's noise filters (step 4) and its Bucket C staging threshold (step 7) verbatim — /sync-people is the single source of truth for these rules. Note that /process-inbox does not read calendar, so the "calendar event where the user is also an attendee" branch of the threshold is simply unavailable here; a Gmail thread where the unknown human directly replied to the user (or vice versa) counts as the Gmail equivalent of a direct meeting for threshold purposes.

   • In interactive mode: surface qualifying unknowns in a "People candidates" section — do not auto-stage.
   • In scheduled mode: stage a stub at + Inbox/people-candidates/<Full Name>.md using /sync-people's stub format (step 10), appending evidence if the stub already exists. Also triage any existing files in + Inbox/people-candidates/ — if they already look complete (relationship guessed, sufficient context), flag for promotion to + Atlas/People/ but do not move them automatically. 6b. Auto-log interactions from email/Slack. For each email or Slack message from a known person (matched in step 6), create a lightweight interaction note following /sync-people step 8 rules verbatim — include/exclude filters, interaction note format, dedup, and Threads updates all apply as written there. /process-inbox has no calendar data, so a Gmail thread where the sender directly replied to the user (or vice versa) counts as the equivalent high-signal trigger.

   Slack mention handling (explicit). The Slack sweep in step 3 returns two streams: DMs (from slack_conversations_unreads) and channel/thread @mentions of the user (from slack_my_mentions). Both feed step 6b — do not treat mentions as second-class.

   • For DMs: the counterparty is the other participant in the DM channel.
   • For mentions: the sender is the message's user field — the person who tagged the user, not the user themselves. Match against + Atlas/People/*.md slack: array entries, formatted as <workspace-slug>:<user_id>. If the sender resolves to a known person, auto-log the channel mention as an interaction with channel: slack and source: <slack permalink>.

   Without this explicit walkthrough, mention senders get silently dropped because step 6's "counterparties of the Slack sweep" was historically read as DM-only.

   Interactive: propose and confirm. Scheduled: create automatically.

7. Interactive vs. scheduled.

   • Interactive (default): propose all moves/actions, wait for approval.
   • Scheduled ($1 == "scheduled"): act without confirmation when classification is unambiguous. Auto-push notes tagged #asana/* to the matching Asana MCP. Leave ambiguous items in + Inbox/ with #needs-review prepended.

8. When moving a note, update backlinks as CLAUDE.md §4 requires.

9. Co-located resources. When moving a note out of + Inbox/, check whether a matching subfolder exists at + Inbox/.resources/<note title>/ (Obsidian Web Clipper and Local Images Plus store images there). If it does, move the contents to + Extras/Attachments/<note title>/ and update all image embed paths inside the note (![[+ Inbox/.resources/…]] → ![[+ Extras/Attachments/…]]). Do NOT keep images in .resources/ dotfolders outside of + Inbox/ — Obsidian's wikilink resolver does not index dotfolders, so ![[…]] embeds will break.

Output

A triage report with six sections:

• Vault inbox — per-note proposal (or action taken)
• Meetings captured — list of today's past meetings processed via /capture-meeting, with interaction note paths
• Mail/Slack needing reply — grouped by account
• Drafted replies — list of drafts saved, with account + draft ID
• Interactions logged — list of auto-created interaction notes from email/Slack
• Auto-pushed to Asana — only in scheduled mode

Notes

• Never create Asana tasks from Gmail/Slack items directly — only from vault notes with #asana/* tags.
• Read-only toward Gmail/Slack; do not mark messages as read, archive, or label anything during this skill.