Today's Agent Skill: Daily Email Briefing Summarizer
What It Does
Most small business owners spend the first hour of their day lost in email, trying to figure out what actually needs a response and what can wait. This skill processes your unread email list and produces a prioritized daily briefing — which threads need action today, which need monitoring, and which can be archived or ignored.
How It Works
The agent takes a paste or export of your inbox subject lines, senders, and first lines of email bodies, categorizes each by urgency and action type, and produces a short daily briefing: "Do Now" (requires a response or decision today), "Do Later" (handle in a batch this week), "FYI" (informational, no action needed), and "Archive" (can safely be deleted or ignored).
How to Deploy It
Run this skill in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or Windsurf by pasting or importing your inbox content each morning. For automated daily runs, connect to your email via a Gmail integration in Make.com or Zapier and pass the previous day's emails to the agent, then have the summary emailed to yourself at 7am. The briefing takes under three minutes to generate and can replace an hour of inbox-scrolling.
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## Description
Processes a list of emails (subject, sender, snippet) and produces a prioritized daily briefing categorized as: Do Now (respond or decide today), Do Later (batch this week), FYI (no action needed), and Archive (can be ignored) — with a one-line action summary per email.
## Trigger
Invoke when the user says "summarize my emails," "what do I need to respond to today," "triage my inbox," or pastes a list of email subjects and senders.
## Input
- A list of emails with at minimum: sender name or email address, subject line, and first 1-2 sentences of the body (snippet)
- The user's role and business type (so the agent knows what's truly urgent for them)
- Optional: a list of high-priority senders whose emails always go in "Do Now" regardless of content
- Optional: a list of known newsletter or marketing email domains to automatically route to "Archive"
## Steps
1. Parse each email entry: extract sender, subject, and snippet.
2. Classify each email into one of four priority buckets:
- DO NOW: sender is a client, customer, or key vendor; subject implies a deadline, question, complaint, or payment; or user flagged this sender as high-priority
- DO LATER: subject impCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.