Inbox sorted before you wake up

Use case

The first half hour of the morning disappears into overnight email. Hermes reads what arrived, separates what needs you from what can wait, and leaves reply drafts in Gmail. You open Telegram, work the urgent items, and send only the drafts you still agree with.

Edit before you send: The clock time, your timezone, and the email domains that are always urgent.

Prompt to paste into Hermes Agent

Save this as a skill named inbox-chief-of-staff. Run it every weekday at [6:30] [TIMEZONE], about 30 minutes before I start work. Read email that arrived since the last run, or the past 24 hours on the first run. Do not send, delete, or archive anything. Deliver a Telegram brief with four groups: - P1: needs me today. Sender, subject, the ask in one line, and why it cannot wait. - P2: worth a reply this week, same shape, shorter. - FYI: I should know, no reply. One line each, max five, then a count of the rest. - Trash candidates: newsletters, receipts, and obvious noise. List them. Leave them in the inbox unless I reply TRASH on Telegram. For every P1 and P2, create a Gmail draft and label it hermes-draft. The draft is in my voice: short, no filler, no invented commitments. If I owe a decision, the draft asks for that decision instead of guessing it. Always treat these sender domains as P1, even when the subject looks routine: [client.com], [sponsor.com], [partner.com]. Rules: - Do not open attachments that look like invoices or contracts beyond naming them. - If a thread is waiting on someone else, say so and do not draft a nudge unless it has been quiet for 5 days. - If Telegram delivery fails, write the same brief to [FALLBACK PATH] and stop.

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