inbox-zero

inbox-zero is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,197 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An inbox-triage workflow for email, Slack, LinkedIn, Swan, and CRM tasks. It sorts messages into items to archive, handle, reply to, or leave for the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for inbox sweeps, archiving obvious noise, drafting replies, completing simple follow-ups, and summarizing items that need attention.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to inspect every message manually and separates routine noise from work needing judgment. Replies are drafted for review rather than sent automatically.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for inbox sweeps, archiving obvious noise, drafting replies, completing simple follow-ups, and summarizing items that need attention.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/inbox-zero
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 swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill inbox-zero
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swan-gtm/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,197 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 $0.00046 $0.01197
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00120

Measured 9d ago against content hash e185f30cb182, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inbox-zero 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 9d 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/ido-goldberg/inbox-zero/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The four-bucket model

For each item the agent encounters, exactly one of these:

Bucket When What the user sees
1. Auto-archive Obvious noise (newsletters, mass mailers, status alerts), items already handled by someone else, items needing no action One-line FYI in the batched summary, always with a reason
2. Auto-handle The agent can fully complete the work itself — mark a CRM task done, schedule a follow-up reminder, archive after the other side already replied One-line FYI in the batched summary
3. Draft → approve A reply is needed Reviewed one by one in the batched output
4. Park Ambiguous, or the user's judgment is required Left in inbox with a one-line reason

Steps

  1. Sweep all connected surfaces. Pull unread / unactioned items from email, Slack DMs, LinkedIn DMs, the Swan inbox, and the CRM task queue. Count them. If above ~30, switch to swan-execute-code — load the inbox snapshot into a frame and process in passes.

  2. Classify silently into the four buckets. For each item:

    • Read the message.
    • Investigate first when facts are needed — check the CRM for prior touches and the account record, check the subscription, search product documentation, pull recent Slack threads where the customer was discussed. If the question is about a bug, product behavior, or code-level issue, route to the org's internal investigation/auditor agent when one is available (these typically have access to logs and the codebase; that context lands in the draft).
    • Decide the bucket. When uncertain → park, don't auto-archive.
  3. Execute autonomous actions. Archive bucket 1, complete bucket 2. Keep a running tally of WHY each was actioned, so the FYI summary is specific ("David replied he's on it"), not generic ("archived 14").

  4. Draft replies for bucket 3. Substantive, in the sender's voice (load the sender instructions and pull past approved messages first), citing the facts gathered in Step 2. Use swan-build-sequence when the reply belongs to an existing outreach thread; otherwise draft via the appropriate sending tool for the surface.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 9d ago First seen · 59 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A e185f30cb182

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inbox-zero is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (153 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,197 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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