inbox-management

inbox-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. It costs 50 tokens per session (4,259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An ongoing Gmail inbox manager that archives known low-value messages, flags urgent mail, drafts replies without sending them, and tracks overdue follow-ups. It can run on a schedule and starts in a review-focused mode.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor Gmail, sort routine notifications, identify urgent messages, prepare reply drafts, and find stale conversations.
Why use it?
It reduces inbox clutter and helps prevent urgent messages or unanswered follow-ups from being missed. Drafts remain under your control because replies are not sent automatically.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to monitor Gmail, sort routine notifications, identify urgent messages, prepare reply drafts, and find stale conversations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/inbox-management
About the project

Vellum Assistant is a personal AI assistant that remembers information about users, learns their preferences, and takes actions across connected apps. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can manage conversations, unfinished work, and proactive notifications over time. The catalogue skills, hooks, instruction, and setting configure or extend how the assistant works.

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,225 stars · on GitHub · vellum.ai

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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill inbox-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,259 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 37
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 $0.00050 $0.04259
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.02129
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00852
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00426

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3215c7b67d14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inbox-management 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/__tests__/poll-lib.test.ts, scripts/poll-lib.ts, scripts/poll.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/inbox-management/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inbox Management Skill

Companion to inbox-cleanup. Cleanup drains the backlog once. Management keeps the inbox clean on a schedule: archiving noise, flagging urgents, drafting replies, and catching stale follow-ups.

Runs as a script-mode schedule. Each fire polls Gmail deterministically. An empty poll (no new inbox mail and no due follow-up) exits without waking the assistant, so leftover Stage 0 mail is not re-judged every few hours. The assistant runs only when the poll attaches a digest.

Default posture: high recall on noise archiving, high precision on user interruption. Archive aggressively on known-safe patterns. Ping sparingly. Never auto-send a reply. When unsure, flag instead of archiving.


Trust Ladder

A single wrong archive of an important email kills trust. Earn autonomy in stages:

Stage Archive behavior Draft behavior Alerts
0. Flag-only (default) Nothing archived. All archive calls use --dry-run. Summary shows what would be archived for user review. Drafts created in-thread, listed in summary. Urgent scan active.
1. Standard Silent archive of known-safe categories only (calendar responses, no-reply, newsletters). Cold outreach still flagged. Batches > 1,000 ops auto-dry-run. Drafts created in-thread, summarized per run. Urgent scan active.
2. Aggressive Above + cold outreach archived by LLM judgment (default archive, flag only when relevant to user). All ops logged for reversal. Same as Stage 1. Urgent scan active.

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 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.

  1. 7d ago Changed · +18 lines 3215c7b67d14
  2. 8d ago First seen · 307 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A cd4ef2db6d7b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

inbox-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository vellum-ai/vellum-assistant (1,225 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 4,259 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 2026-09-03.

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