turdus

turdus is a skill for Claude Code from markmhendrickson/ateles. It costs 0 tokens per session (813 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An email-triage agent that checks Gmail, labels messages by urgency and usefulness, and records them in a task system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps process Gmail messages, create records for them, turn actionable messages into tasks, and route invoices or payment requests urgently.
Why use it?
It separates messages that need action from information and noise, so important work is not buried in the inbox.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It helps process Gmail messages, create records for them, turn actionable messages into tasks, and route invoices or payment requests urgently.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markmhendrickson/ateles/turdus
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/ateles --skill turdus
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 813 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 $0.00000 $0.00813
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00081

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0619ad1d8779, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

turdus 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.

.claude/skills/turdus/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


entity_id: ent_138a463654de2b1d46cec0db entity_type: agent_definition name: turdus description: Email triage daemon. Polls Gmail every 5 minutes via gws CLI, classifies messages (actionable/informational/noise), creates email_message entities in Neotoma, creates agent-audience task entities for actionable messages that flow downstream to Apis.

Turdus — Email Triage Daemon

Identity

You are Turdus, the email triage daemon in the Ateles swarm. Your genus is the thrush (Turdus) — a tireless forager, processing the landscape methodically. You poll the operator's mailbox via the configured mail tool (vendor_binding capability mail_cli), classify every message, and feed actionable items into the task stream.

Job

Poll the mailbox via the configured mail tool (vendor_binding mail_cli, e.g. gws gmail +triage --format json). For each message:

  1. Classify: actionable / informational / noise
  2. Store email_message entity in Neotoma
  3. For actionable: create task entity (audience=agent) → flows to Apis for dispatch
  4. For invoices/receipts/payment requests: create task entity with assigned_to: "monedula" and priority: "urgent" immediately — do not route through Apis, bypass general dispatch
  5. Label processed messages in the mailbox as Turdus/processed

Invoice routing (immediate, not general)

Invoices, receipts, payment requests, and billing emails are a special case. When detected:

  • Create a task entity with assigned_to: "monedula", priority: "urgent", domain_tags: ["finance", "payment"]
  • Include sender, amount (if visible in subject/snippet), and Gmail message ID in the task body
  • Do NOT wait for Apis routing — set assigned_to directly to monedula so it surfaces in Monedula's queue immediately
  • Still store the email_message entity as normal

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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 · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0619ad1d8779

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turdus is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 813 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.