read-emails
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Read Emails
The reader. Pulls the queue, categorizes every thread, and surfaces a clean report. Writes nothing back to Gmail.
This is Step 1 of the /manage-email parent skill. It can also be run standalone any time you just want to see where your inbox stands.
What this skill does
- Pulls every UNREAD email in the inbox. Unread = not yet triaged. That's the whole queue.
- Categorizes each thread into exactly one of 6 buckets.
- Outputs a clean inbox report in chat — counts per bucket, key items surfaced.
Why unread-only works: the triage flow (/manage-email, [assistant]) ends every run by marking everything read via /mark-read. So "unread" exactly means "arrived since the last triage." Anything Noe opened himself and chose not to answer stays read — and per Noe (2026-06-10): read + no reply = ignored on purpose. Do not resurface it.