email-summary

email-summary is a command for coding agents from kjenney/personal-assistant-plugin. It costs 6 tokens per session (282 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that summarizes and ranks recent emails by urgency, response needs, and information value.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review unread email from today, yesterday, the past week, or a chosen filter, including summaries, required actions, and response guidance.
Why use it?
It helps you process an unread inbox quickly by separating urgent messages from routine updates and newsletters.

Command

Part of the personal-assistant plugin — 5 commands, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/kjenney/personal-assistant-plugin/email-summary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kjenney/personal-assistant-plugin

Or install personal-assistant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 commands, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for email-summary

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 282 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00006 $0.00282
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00141
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00028

Measured 5d ago against content hash f898862454c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-summary 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 5d 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.

commands/email-summary.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Provide an intelligent email summary for the user.

Default behavior (no parameters): Summarize unread emails from the last 24 hours

With timeframe:

  • "today": Emails received today
  • "yesterday": Emails from yesterday
  • "week": Emails from the past 7 days

With filter: Apply the specified filter to narrow down emails

For each summary:

  1. Priority Classification:

    • HIGH: Urgent emails, from VIPs, or with deadline keywords
    • MEDIUM: Normal work emails requiring response
    • LOW: FYI emails, newsletters, automated notifications
  2. Email Details:

    • From/Subject
    • Brief summary (2-3 sentences)
    • Action required (if any)
    • Suggested response approach
  3. Overall Insights:

    • Total unread count
    • Number requiring action
    • Any patterns or themes
    • Recommended next steps

Present this in a scannable format that helps the user quickly triage their inbox.

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. 5d ago First seen · 43 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A f898862454c7

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email-summary is a command published in the GitHub repository kjenney/personal-assistant-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 282 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.