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Email To Tasks
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Convert an email (or a whole thread) into real tasks — the actual asks extracted from the prose, each with owner, deadline, and the done-test, so nothing lives in the inbox as its own reminder. Use when asked what am I actually being asked to do here, turn this thread into a task list, extract the action items from this email, or I keep re-reading this thread. Produces the ask extraction with quoted sources, the task list in owner-verb-deadline form, and the reply that confirms the commitments.
What to give it
▸The email / thread — verbatim; extraction quotes its sources
▸Who the user is in it — extraction is role-relative: their tasks, tasks they're delegating, and tasks that are someone else's problem are three different lists
▸The task system — where tasks live (tool or list), so the output lands in import-ready shape
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every task quotes its source line
✓Every task has owner, verb, deadline (stated or labeled-proposed), and done-test
✓The user's own outbound commitments were mined, not just inbound asks
✓Vague asks became questions, never guesses
✓The confirming reply covers every owner assumption the extraction made
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not paraphrase asks into existence — quote or drop
Do not leave deadlines unproposed — "no deadline" means "never" in practice; propose and confirm
Do not skip the confirming reply — unconfirmed extraction is a private theory about shared work
Do not action vague asks by interpretation — the clarifying question costs one line; the wrong guess costs the work
Do not leave the thread as backup storage — once tasks are filed and confirmed, the thread archives
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="email-to-tasks"></div>
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