triage-a-surface

triage-a-surface is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A sorting workflow for your email inbox or calendar. It ranks recent messages by urgency, or checks upcoming events for clashes, missing breaks, and conflicts with focused work time.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prioritize email threads and review the next week's calendar for overbookings, inadequate buffers, and blocked focus time.
Why use it?
It turns a busy inbox or schedule into a short list of what needs attention and what can wait. It identifies problems without drafting messages or changing calendar events.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It helps prioritize email threads and review the next week's calendar for overbookings, inadequate buffers, and blocked focus time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop/triage-a-surface
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.

Any agent
npx skills add akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop --skill triage-a-surface
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 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 $0.00091 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00146

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1ea4c202f1ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-a-surface 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 7d 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.

store/agents/operations/.agents/skills/triage-a-surface/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Triage A Surface

Classify + rank two surfaces eat week: inbox, calendar. Never draft replies (that draft-a-message), never edit events (that book-a-meeting).

When to use

  • surface=inbox - "triage my inbox" / "what's in my email" / "summarize my inbox" / "inbox roundup".
  • surface=calendar - "scan my calendar" / "find conflicts" / "how's my week" / "rebalance my week".

Connections I need

I run external work through Composio. Before this skill runs I check the categories below are linked. Missing → I name the category, ask you to connect it from the Integrations tab, stop.

  • Inbox (Gmail, Outlook) - Required for surface=inbox. Pulls last-24h threads so I can classify and rank.
  • Calendar (Google Calendar, Outlook) - Required for surface=calendar. Reads the next 7 days for conflicts and unprotected slots.

If you ask for inbox triage and no inbox is connected, I stop and ask you to connect your inbox first. Same for calendar.

Information I need

I read your operations context first. For every required field that's missing I ask ONE plain-language question (best modality: connected app > file drop > URL > paste) and wait.

  • Operating context doc - Required. Why I need it: anchors priorities, key contacts, hard nos so I rank what actually matters. If missing I ask: "Want me to set up your operating context first? Triage gets sharper after."
  • VIPs - Required. Why I need it: VIPs ride to the top of the inbox and trigger unprotected-slot alerts on the calendar. If missing I ask: "Who are the people whose threads always need a same-day reply - investors, key customers, anyone else?"
  • Focus blocks - Required for surface=calendar. Why I need it: I flag meetings that crash into your deep-work time. If missing I ask: "When are your protected focus blocks - specific days, specific hours?"
  • Max meetings per day - Required for surface=calendar. Why I need it: drives the overload flag. If missing I ask: "What's a normal-busy versus over-loaded day for you in number of meetings?"
  • Your timezone - Required. Why I need it: reads windows in your time, not UTC. If missing I ask: "What timezone do you work in most of the time?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 7d ago First seen · 79 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 1ea4c202f1ac

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triage-a-surface is a skill published in the GitHub repository akiotanaka847/qaio-desktop (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,465 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-05.

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