Inbox-Setup — Email Triage Onboarding
Inbox-Setup is a one-time onboarding skill that interviews you about your email patterns, business context, reply style, and priorities, then generates a personalized knowledge base of seven files that power the companion inbox-triage skill. It uses a disciplined one-question-at-a-time interview to capture your taxonomy, voice, evaluation criteria, blocklist, tracker, and report preferences, producing a structured setup ready for ongoing email triage.
✨ What it does
- Interactive interview with one question at a time, each explaining why it's asked.
- Generates a 7-file knowledge base (taxonomy, patterns, evaluation framework, rate card, blocklist, tracker, triage log)
- Conditional sections: skips evaluation framework and rate card if no opportunity emails or pricing.
- Supports re-runs with per-file replace/merge/skip options.
- Includes scripts for validating the knowledge base and analyzing voice samples.
- Privacy boundary: never stores sensitive credentials in knowledge base files.
🎯 When to use it
- When you want to set up an automated email triage system for the first time.
- When your business, pricing, or email priorities change significantly and you need to update the knowledge base.
- When you need a structured, personalized email classification and response framework tailored to your workflow.
🚀 How to use
Trigger the skill with phrases like 'set up my inbox', 'configure inbox triage', or 'build my email knowledge base'. The skill will conduct an interactive interview, asking one question at a time across 8 sections. Provide honest answers about your role, email categories, reply style, sample emails, blocklist, current state, and report preferences. Example prompts:
set up my inbox
configure email triage
📄 Output: A set of markdown files in the Email/ directory that define your email taxonomy, reply patterns, evaluation framework, rate card, blocklist, tracker, and a triage log folder.
📦 Add this skill to Claude Code
# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills
# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/productivity/email/skills/inbox-setup .claude/skills/inbox-setupSkill source: productivity/email/skills/inbox-setup/SKILL.md
⚠️ Good to know
Requires a workspace to write files; if inaccessible, the skill stops and asks for permission. If you refuse to share email samples, voice calibration may be less accurate and flagged for follow-up.
❓ FAQ
What happens if I don't have pricing or receive opportunity emails?
The skill skips Section 4 entirely, so it won't create the evaluation-framework.md or rate-card.md files, reducing the number of questions.
Can I re-run the skill after initial setup?
Yes, re-running detects existing files and asks you per-file whether to replace, merge, or skip, then walks only the sections you choose to update.
What should I do if I volunteer sensitive information during the interview?
The skill acknowledges it but does not store it; the relevant knowledge base file will note '[stored separately by user]' instead.
🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.