email-search-disambiguation

email-search-disambiguation is a skill for Claude Code from PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A clarification step for email searches when a person, time period, direction, or scope is unclear. It presents specific possible meanings so the user can choose one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before searching emails with vague names, roles, organizations, time references, mailbox scope, or unclear sent-versus-received direction.
Why use it?
It prevents searching the wrong contact, date range, or set of messages because words such as “recent,” “everyone,” or “the boss” can mean different things.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the che-apple-mail-mcp plugin — 3 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before searching emails with vague names, roles, organizations, time references, mailbox scope, or unclear sent-versus-received direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/psychquant/che-apple-mail-mcp/email-search-disambiguation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp --skill email-search-disambiguation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install che-apple-mail-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook.

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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 1,127 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 $0.01127
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00563
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00113

Measured 13d ago against content hash ab49f5a89c23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-search-disambiguation 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 13d 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.

plugin/skills/email-search-disambiguation/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email Search Disambiguation

借鑑 nsql 的 disambiguation triggers,adapt 到 email search 領域。

Triggers

E1 — Vague Contact Reference

Examples:

  • 中文人名:「陳老師」、「王教授」、「林助理」
  • 角色稱呼:「老闆」、「主管」、「指導教授」、「客戶」
  • 公司/組織:「中研院的人」、「stat.sinica 的信」

Resolution pattern:

「{contact}」可能對應到:
1. {email_1} ({description_1},推薦)
2. {email_2} ({description_2})
3. 其他({user 補充})

你要哪一個?

範例:

「陳老師」可能對應到:
1. [email protected] (陳君厚老師,中研院統計所,推薦)
2. [email protected] (統計所其他「陳」)
3. 其他

你要哪一個?

怎麼找候選:

  • .claude/emails.mdparticipant_aliases 讀別名對應
  • 從 contacts 或之前 archive 的 thread participants 找匹配
  • 如果完全找不到,問 user「我找不到匹配的 contact,你能給我 email 地址嗎?」

E2 — Vague Time Reference

Examples: 「最近」、「上週」、「這個月」、「之前」、「半年內」

Resolution pattern:

「{term}」可以有不同解釋:
1. 過去 7 天 (今天 - 7d)
2. 上一個完整週/月
3. 自從某事件 (例如:上次 archive 之後)

你指的是哪一個?

E3 — Vague Scope

Examples: 「全部」、「所有」、「都」、「整個 thread」

Resolution pattern:

「全部」可能指:
1. 符合 filter 的 emails (用 search criteria 限縮)
2. 整個 mailbox 的 emails (沒有 filter)
3. 過去 N 天/月的 emails (時間限縮)

範圍多大?

E4 — Ambiguous Operation Direction

Examples:

  • 「寄給陳老師的信」← 我寄出?還是收到?
  • 「跟陳老師往來的信」← 雙向

Resolution pattern:

「{phrase}」可能指:
1. 我寄出去給 {contact} 的(Sent direction)
2. {contact} 寄給我的(Received direction)
3. 雙向(整個 thread)

你要哪一個?

E5 — Mailbox Ambiguity

Examples: 「INBOX 的信」當有多個 accounts、「Drafts」當不確定哪個 account

Resolution pattern:

你有 {N} 個 mail accounts:
1. {account_1}
2. {account_2}
3. ...

「{mailbox}」要在哪一個 account 找?還是全部?

Disambiguation skip 條件

不需要 disambiguate(直接 execute):

  • 明確 email 地址([email protected])
  • 精確日期區間(2026-04-01 to 2026-04-30)
  • Message-ID 直接指定
  • 之前 session 已經 disambiguate 過同一個 term(且 user 沒改)

與 confirmation-protocol 的關係

E1-E5 是 confirmation-protocol 的 Phase 1(Disambiguation)。 完成 disambiguation 後進入 Phase 2(Search Preview),由 bulk-operation-preview skill 接手。

範例 dialogue

user: 把 jonathan 寄給我的信都歸檔

AI [E1 trigger]:
「jonathan」可能對應到:
1. [email protected] (Jonathan Tong,合作研究者)
2. [email protected] (其他)

你要哪一個?

user: 1

AI [E4 trigger - direction is "寄給我的" so direction is implicitly received, but let me double check via E3]:
「[email protected] 寄給我的信」我理解是:
- Direction: received only (不含我寄出去的)
- Mailbox: 預設 INBOX(若要包含其他 mailbox 例如 archived 請說)
- Time range: 全部歷史

確認嗎?

user: 對,但是要包含 archived 的

AI: [proceed to Phase 2 with refined filter]

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 13d ago First seen · 147 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A ab49f5a89c23

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email-search-disambiguation is a skill published in the GitHub repository PsychQuant/che-apple-mail-mcp (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,127 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 2026-08-30.

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