Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to lynxbat/inbox-zero-claude. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lynxbat/inbox-zero-claude/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lynxbat/inbox-zero-claudeWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lynxbat/inbox-zero-claude/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/lynxbat/inbox-zero-claude/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/lynxbat/inbox-zero-claude/claude-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00459 | $0.00459 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00230 | $0.00230 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00092 | $0.00092 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00046 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
inbox-zero-claude CLAUDE.md 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 8d 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.
What it actually says
Inbox Zero Claude
Email organization and triage workflow powered by Claude Code.
Prerequisites
- outlook-mcp configured in Claude Code
- Microsoft Outlook for macOS
Quick Start
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Copy templates to create your config:
cp -r templates/config logs/config cp -r templates/people logs/people cp -r templates/topics logs/topics cp -r templates/companies logs/companies cp -r templates/programs logs/programs mkdir -p attachments -
Edit
logs/config/files with your rules -
Run
/inbox-zeroto start triage
Email Organization
Before organizing emails, read these config files:
logs/config/folder-sorting-rules.md- Vendor classification, sender ruleslogs/config/urgency-rules.md- VIP senders, urgency keywordslogs/config/send-permissions.md- Draft vs auto-send rules
Key Principles:
- Archive is ONLY for truly irrelevant emails
- All business emails belong in a categorized folder
- VIP emails always surface for review
File Organization
Attachments: attachments/
- Email attachments saved here for analysis
- Organized by topic subfolder
Logs: logs/
config/- Your sorting and urgency rulespeople/- Person-specific context and historytopics/- Topic/thread trackingcompanies/- Vendor contextprograms/- Program tracking
Reports: ~/Reports/inbox-zero/
- Generated analysis reports (PDF)
Cache
The email cache at email_cache.db speeds up triage by storing email metadata locally.
To sync: python scripts/email_cache.py sync
To search: python scripts/email_cache.py search <term>
Creating New Log Types
Add any folder under logs/ for new context types. The inbox-zero workflow will read all markdown files in logs/ subfolders.
Example: logs/incidents/ for tracking incidents.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 459 tokens per session scan A 294922383240
inbox-zero-claude CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository lynxbat/inbox-zero-claude (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 459 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 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.
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