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.
npx skills add techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit --skill triage-messagesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkitWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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 | $0.00062 | $0.00996 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.00498 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00199 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00100 |
Grade A, and why
triage-messages 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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Triage Messages
Principle: "You are responsible." This skill surfaces and categorises. The manager decides what to act on and how.
Scans unread Slack messages and recent emails, categorises them by urgency and type, and presents a prioritised overview.
When to Use
- Morning routine: catch up on what happened overnight
- After a block of focus time or meetings
- When the manager says "what did I miss?", "catch me up", "triage my messages"
- Can be scoped to a time window: "triage since yesterday", "triage last 2 hours"
Instructions
If any MCP connector is unavailable, follow the connector unavailability protocol in references/operating-principles.md.
1. Determine Time Window
Default: since the manager's last likely check-in (use calendar to estimate, if they were in back-to-back meetings for 3 hours, scan those 3 hours).
If specified: use the provided time window.
If unclear, ask:
What time period should I triage? Options:
- Since this morning
- Last [N] hours
- Since yesterday
- Custom range
2. Load Manager Context
Read from manager-context/ (if available):
manager-profile.md: to know who the direct reports are (their messages get higher priority)terminology.md: to decode internal shorthand in messagesteam/: to understand team members' projects and responsibilitiessources.md: to know which customer/project channels to monitor
3. Scan Slack
Search for messages in the time window:
Priority channels (scan first):
- Channels where the manager was @-mentioned
- DMs to the manager
- Team channels (from manager-context)
- Customer/project channels (from manager-context)
Broader channels (scan for relevance):
- Company-wide channels
- Cross-functional channels the manager is in
For each message/thread, capture:
- Who sent it
- Channel
- Content summary (1 line)
- Whether the manager was mentioned or it's in a direct thread
- Link to the message
4. Scan Email
Search Gmail for messages in the time window:
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 8d ago First seen · 133 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A dc0fa85da2c0
triage-messages is a skill published in the GitHub repository techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit (98 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 996 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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