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Triage your Apple Mail from a Mac. Pull recent messages, classify them, and flag the ones that need action. Use to check email, see what needs a reply, or run a recurring inbox triage (wrap in /loop).
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- rokokol/mail-skilltheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- outof-place/claude-acctheir own version, first seen Oct 15, 2026
- orangehrm/orangehrmtheir own version, first seen Oct 8, 2026
- andrewsoonqn/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 8, 2026
- polycode-public/claude-code-idea-refinerytheir own version, first seen Aug 23, 2026
- FoneClaw-AI/foneclaw-androidtheir own version, first seen Jul 24, 2026
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- orangehrm/orangehrm★ 1.1ksame name
- FoneClaw-AI/foneclaw-android★ 21same name
- gofixpoint/amika-biz★ 3same name
- outof-place/claude-acc★ 2same name
- ai461/claudemail★ 1same name
- polycode-public/claude-code-idea-refinery★ 1same name
- andrewsoonqn/skills★ 0same name
- rokokol/mail-skill★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Most of the 5 edited versions we read keep these.
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Do not flag mailing-list/newsletter noise as Action.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 5 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Mail (Apple Mail triage)
Reads and flags Apple Mail through AppleScript helper scripts in scripts/. Mail.app aggregates all your accounts in one place, so this works across every account you have configured there. Mac-only. Read + flag only: it never sends, deletes, archives, or marks read.
Personalize first: set
DEFAULT_ACCOUNTSat the top ofscripts/list.shto your Mail.app account name(s). Use the exact "Description" shown under Mail > Settings > Accounts (e.g.iCloud,Gmail,Work). Account names likeWorkbelow are placeholders.
On invocation (triage routine)
- Pull recent mail.
bash ~/.claude/skills/mail/scripts/list.sh(default account, 10 most recent). For a wider sweep pass an account name:list.sh Work,list.sh iCloud. Output marks[UNREAD]vs[read]. - Classify each unread/recent message into:
- 🔴 Action: needs a reply or a task (a real person asking something, admin with a deadline, bills, anything time-sensitive).
- 🟠 FYI: informational, worth knowing, no action (announcements, receipts).
- ⚪️ Noise: mailing lists and newsletters. Summarize as a count, do not itemize.
- Flag the Action items (reversible):
bash ~/.claude/skills/mail/scripts/flag.sh "<account>" "<subject substring>" on red. Use red for must-do, orange for a softer "should reply". Unflag with... off. - Present a tight triage, not a dump: a 🔴 Action list (sender + what they want + suggested next step), a short 🟠 FYI list, and "+N list-serv/newsletter items skipped". End with the single most important thing to handle, and offer to draft a reply (draft only, see guardrails).
Recurring use
Wrap the routine in a loop: /loop 45m /mail (runs while the Mac and a session are on). Each pass re-triages and flags new Action mail. Flags show up in Mail.app's Flagged smart mailbox and sync to iPhone.
Scripts
list.sh [account] [count]: fast bulk read (avoids the slow unified-inbox count); resilient inbox resolver. Default account set is editable at the top of the script (DEFAULT_ACCOUNTS).flag.sh "<account>" "<subject substring>" [on|off] [color]: flag/unflag the first matching message (within the 40 most recent). Colors: red orange yellow green blue purple grey.
Guardrails
- Read + flag only. Drafting a reply is fine (tell the user, or use a Gmail connector's
create_draftif available), but never auto-send, delete, archive, or mark-read without explicit say-so. - Do not flag mailing-list/newsletter noise as Action.
- Account names must match Mail.app exactly, including any punctuation or spaces. Copy the name as shown under Mail > Settings > Accounts.
- Mail's unified-inbox
countis very slow: always read per-account with the bounded slice (the scripts already do this). Do not iterate the unifiedinbox.
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