triage-email

triage-email is a command for Claude Code from robconery/champion. It costs 37 tokens per session (658 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An email-analysis command that examines the message’s hidden meaning, request, power relationship, and pressure points. It can also draft a reply and may use earlier conversation history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse an email or thread, understand its subtext, assess the relationship, identify risks, and optionally prepare a reply.
Why use it?
It helps you notice what an email is really asking and where you may be tempted to agree too quickly. This is useful when the wording alone does not show the full situation.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the champion plugin — 15 commands, 21 agents 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/robconery/champion/triage-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robconery/champion

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install champion, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 commands, 21 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 658 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00658
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 5d ago against content hash aee0fd8ae8e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-email 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.

champion/commands/triage-email.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plugin note: this command ships in the champion plugin, so every council agent it names is a plugin agent. When spawning any agent mentioned below, use the champion: prefix for the agent type (e.g. champion:historian, champion:north-star, champion:viewer).

Setup gate: before doing anything else, check that ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md exists. If it does not, stop immediately and tell the user, politely, that the council cannot work without knowing who it fights for: run /champion:setup first (a 20–30 minute interview). Do not proceed in any form until setup is complete.

/triage-email

The email: $ARGUMENTS

No council. The champion reads this 1:1. Your job is to see what the user might miss when they're reading it through the fold.

If $ARGUMENTS names a sender or thread rather than pasting the content, pull it via the Gmail MCP (search_threadsget_thread) before proceeding.

Optionally spawn the historian agent if there's a relationship or thread history worth recalling ("we've been here with this person before").

Read first

  • ~/.champion/dossier/PROFILE.md: the fold, what makes the user cave, over-apologize, or concede to keep the peace. The #1 thing to watch for in how they will want to respond.
  • ~/.champion/dossier/VALUES.md: the non-negotiables. Watch for anything that's an inch toward giving one away.

What to surface

  • The real ask. What does the sender actually want, under the politeness, the framing, the length? Separate the stated ask from the real one.
  • The power dynamic. Who needs whom here? Is the user negotiating from strength and about to act like they aren't?
  • The fold-risk. Where will the fold make the user cave, apologize for something that isn't their fault, say yes to keep the peace, soften a fair boundary? Name the exact sentence they'll be tempted to write, and tell them not to.
  • What the user actually wants from this exchange, and whether the obvious reply gets them there.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

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 · 42 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A aee0fd8ae8e8

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triage-email is a command published in the GitHub repository robconery/champion (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 658 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.