An inbox-scanning skill for Apple Mail that finds unread, actionable, and priority messages.

Use it to check recent mail, find urgent messages, and triage inbox items by status and priority.

It reduces the time needed to sort recent email and helps surface messages that may need a response or follow-up.

How ronnycoding/my-personal-assistant configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ronnycoding/my-personal-assistant. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronnycoding/my-personal-assistant/main/.claude/skills/scan-inbox/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ronnycoding/my-personal-assistant

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 906 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00057	$0.00906
Opus 5.5	$0.00023	$0.00362
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00181
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00091

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8e8fd8774abc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scan-inbox 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 2mo 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/scan-inbox/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scan Inbox

Analyzes your Apple Mail inbox to identify unread, actionable, and priority messages within a specified time range.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when the user asks questions like:

"Check my email"
"What unread emails do I have?"
"Any urgent emails?"
"Show me actionable items from my inbox"
"Triage my email from today"

What This Skill Does

Scans all inbox accounts in Apple Mail
Filters messages by time range (default: last 24 hours)
Identifies unread messages
Detects actionable keywords (deadline, urgent, action required, meeting, request, etc.)
Identifies priority/flagged messages
Returns structured data with counts and message details

Instructions

Step 1: Determine Time Range

Ask the user if they want a specific time range, or use these defaults:

"Today" or "recent" → 24 hours
"This week" or "recent days" → 48-72 hours
Specific request → Honor their time range

Step 2: Execute the Scan

Run the AppleScript skill using the Bash tool:

```bash osascript .claude/skills/scan-inbox/scripts/scan_inbox.scpt false ```

Parameters:

<hours>: Number of hours to look back (e.g., 24, 48, 72)
false: Set to true for priority-only mode

Step 3: Parse Results

The script returns:

success: boolean (true/false)
unreadCount: Total unread messages
actionableCount: Messages with actionable keywords
priorityCount: Flagged/priority messages
unreadList: Array of unread message details (sender, subject, date, flagged status)
actionableList: Array of actionable messages
priorityList: Array of priority messages

Step 4: Present Results to User

Format the output in a clear, actionable way:

Example Response: ``` 📬 Inbox Summary (Last 24 Hours)

📊 Overview:

38 unread messages
0 actionable items
0 priority/flagged

📧 Recent Unread:

Google - Security alert
C# Digest - Newsletter
BAC Credomatic - Transaction notification ... (showing top 5-10)

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 134 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 8e8fd8774abc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scan-inbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository ronnycoding/my-personal-assistant (12 stars, last pushed 12mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 906 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-02.

Productivity

scan-inbox next to 6 skills from other repositories
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