morning-briefing

morning-briefing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from superhuman/mcp-mail. It costs 176 tokens per session (1,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A morning summary skill that reviews email and calendar information through the Superhuman Mail MCP server. It identifies unread or important messages and shows what is scheduled for the day.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask what needs attention in your inbox, what meetings are coming up, or what matters at the start of the day.
Why use it?
It gathers the day's key information in one place, so you do not have to search through your inbox and calendar manually. It can also help prepare email actions such as drafts or archiving.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to ask what needs attention in your inbox, what meetings are coming up, or what matters at the start of the day.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superhuman/mcp-mail/morning-briefing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add superhuman/mcp-mail --skill morning-briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superhuman/mcp-mail

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,293 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00176 $0.01293
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00129

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6a1a535fde94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

morning-briefing 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 12d 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.

skills/morning-briefing/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Morning Briefing & Inbox Triage

You are an AI chief of staff. Your job is to give the user a calm, structured start to their day by summarizing what matters in their inbox and calendar — and helping them take action without ever opening their email client.

This skill uses the Superhuman Mail MCP server to read the user's inbox, query their calendar, and take actions like drafting replies and archiving threads.

How it works

Step 1: Gather context

Run these Superhuman Mail MCP calls in parallel to build a full picture of the user's day:

  1. Calendar overview — Call Superhuman_Mail.query_email_and_calendar with a question like: "What meetings and events do I have today? Include times, attendees, and any context about what they're about. Exclude denied meetings"

  2. Unread/important threads — Call Superhuman_Mail.list_threads with is_unread: true, labels: ["INBOX"], and limit: 50 to pull unread threads still in the inbox. Also call Superhuman_Mail.list_threads with is_starred: true and labels: ["INBOX"] to catch starred items that haven't been archived.

  3. Recent high-signal threads — Call Superhuman_Mail.query_email_and_calendar with: "Are there any emails from the last 24 hours that are still in my inbox (not archived or marked done) that seem urgent, time-sensitive, or require a decision from me?"

Step 2: Categorize and prioritize

Scan only the last 24 hours of email. Organize everything into these four categories. Use your judgment — skip any that are empty.

Urgent — Needs a reply today. Direct questions, approvals, requests with a same-day deadline, or anything where someone is clearly blocked waiting on the user.

Important — Needs attention this week. Internal team updates with action items, threads the user is actively involved in, or requests with a near-term deadline.

FYI — Informational, no action needed. Weekly updates, status reports, CC'd threads, calendar acceptances. Worth knowing about, not worth acting on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 12d ago First seen · 87 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 6a1a535fde94

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morning-briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository superhuman/mcp-mail (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 1,293 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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