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notmuch

Skill2 starsChanged 13 days agoMITView on GitHub

Search and read local email with the `notmuch` CLI. Use when the user asks to find messages, inspect threads, or review email tags.

The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈1

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 2

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Search local email and inspect message threads with notmuch.

    line 8
  2. Distinctive:

    Prefer read-only commands in this skill:

    line 59
  3. Very specific:

    Avoid mutating commands unless the user explicitly requests them (for example notmuch new, notmuch tag, notmuch insert).

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

Notmuch

Search local email and inspect message threads with notmuch.

notmuch search --format=json --limit=20 'tag:unread'

Search Threads

Preferred command (machine-readable JSON):

notmuch search --format=json --limit=20 'from:alice subject:"design review" date:2026-02-01..'

Common query terms:

  • from:<email-or-name>
  • to:<email-or-name>
  • subject:<term>
  • tag:<tag-name>
  • date:YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DD
  • thread:<thread-id>

Read Messages

Headers-only summary for a thread/query:

notmuch show --format=json --body=false 'thread:0000000000000123'

Full text output:

notmuch show --format=text 'thread:0000000000000123'

Structured output with bodies:

notmuch show --format=json 'thread:0000000000000123'

List Tags

notmuch search --output=tags '*'

Guardrails

Prefer read-only commands in this skill:

  • notmuch search ...
  • notmuch show ...

Avoid mutating commands unless the user explicitly requests them (for example notmuch new, notmuch tag, notmuch insert).

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