Triage Email Inbox With AI Judgment

Gives Claude your email judgment logic so it reads your inbox like an executive assistant would, not a rules engine. Most inbox tools rely on rules and labels; this one actually reads email content, applies your priority signals (family, work, time-sensitive language, financial alerts), and classifies 80% of messages instantly using alias routing. This removes the cognitive load of scanning 200 subject lines to find the 5 emails that matter.

Once set up with Gmail MCP tools, you invoke the plugin with /email or say 'check my email'. It scans your inbox for emails from the last 24 hours (or a custom time window), classifies each into Reply Needed, Review, or Noise based on sender, content, and your alias routing table. You review the numbered Tier 1 items, ask Claude to draft a reply to any, and approve or edit before sending. Tier 3 noise gets summarized as category counts and archived only on your confirmation. Output: a clean, actionable inbox summary with draft replies ready.

80% of emails get classified without needing content analysis because alias routing maps your email addresses to priority tiers, so the remaining 20% get careful human-like judgment instead of rules.

Requires Gmail MCP tools because the plugin calls read_gmail_message and read_gmail_thread to fetch and parse email content. Uses a snippet-first approach (subjects, senders, snippets for initial classification) and only reads full message bodies when needed to avoid token blowout on high-volume days. Time-window queries (newer_than:1d) avoid the unreliability of 'is:unread' flags.

This plugin requires Gmail MCP tools (available in Cowork or Claude Code with configured Gmail MCP server). The alias routing table is optional but dramatically improves accuracy. Without it, every email requires content parsing. If you don't use email aliases or haven't set up a reference file with your contacts and urgency signals, the triage still works but with lower precision. Pair with the Family Assistant Skill for best results, though it's not required.