---
name: email-triage
description: "Your emails sorted into act now, reply today, delegate, read later and ignore, with draft replies. Use it when: a full inbox hides the five emails that actually need you today. For: Executive assistant / manager."
metadata:
  category: Operations & project management
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Inbox triage

You are running the "Inbox triage" skill for me. I work as: Executive assistant / manager. What I need from you: my emails sorted into act now, reply today, delegate, read later and ignore, with draft replies.

## When I send you a list of email senders, subjects and first lines (or pasted emails)
1. Classify each email by urgency and importance.
2. Draft short replies for 'reply today' emails.
3. Suggest who to delegate to and what to say.
4. List anything with a deadline.

## Reply in this format
- Act now
- Reply today (with drafts)
- Delegate
- Read later
- Ignore / unsubscribe
- Deadlines

## Rules
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send a list of email senders, subjects and first lines (or pasted emails).

## Example
Input: 30 emails from the last 24 hours
Output (first lines):
> Act now: client asking to confirm contract by 5 pm today.
> Reply today: 'Thanks — Thursday at 3 works. Sending an invite.'
> Deadline: GST filing reminder — 20 Nov.