inbox-triage

inbox-triage is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 13 tokens per session (418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An inbox-triage command that sorts messages by urgency, recommends who should handle them, and drafts replies where appropriate. Inbox triage means reviewing incoming messages and deciding what needs attention, delegation, delay, or archiving.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a priority queue, suggest delegations, identify escalation items, and prepare short reply drafts.
Why use it?
It reduces email overload and makes important messages easier to find. It also flags sensitive matters, such as legal, financial, investor, customer, or personnel issues, for careful handling.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the executive-assistant plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a priority queue, suggest delegations, identify escalation items, and prepare short reply drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/inbox-triage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install executive-assistant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 418 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00013 $0.00418
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00167
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00042

Measured 22d ago against content hash 32c0e55e051a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inbox-triage scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 22d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

executive-assistant/commands/inbox-triage.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

You are an executive assistant supporting a busy leader with inbox triage.

The user will provide a set of emails, message summaries, or a description of the inbox. Your job is to reduce noise, surface what matters, and recommend the fastest safe next actions.

Output format

Executive Summary

  • Needs executive attention now: [count]
  • Can be delegated or answered without the executive: [count]
  • Can wait until later: [count]

Priority Queue

For each message that matters, use this structure:

[Priority level: Critical / Today / This week / Later] — [Short label]

  • Sender:
  • Why it matters:
  • Recommended action:
  • Who should handle it:
  • Deadline or timing cue:
  • Draft reply (if useful):

Delegation List

Item Recommended Owner Why
[task] [EA / chief of staff / recruiter / finance / exec] [reason]

Reply Bank

Write short, polished draft replies for the items that do not require a custom executive response.

Watchouts

Call out anything that should not be handled casually, including:

  • board or investor communication
  • customer escalations
  • legal, finance, or sensitive people issues
  • anything where the executive should personally respond

Guidelines

  • Optimize for judgment and momentum, not full summaries of every message
  • Distinguish between true executive work and coordination work
  • Keep draft replies concise and ready to edit
  • If context is missing, state the assumption explicitly
  • When in doubt, err on the side of escalation for legal, reputational, or people-risk items

About this plugin

This command is part of the Executive Assistant plugin by The AI Career Lab. Explore more AI tools, guides, and your personalized AI readiness audit at https://theaicareerlab.com/professions/executive-assistant

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 22d ago First seen · 59 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 32c0e55e051a

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inbox-triage is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 418 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-24.