What do I need to use Inbox Zero Operator?

Scope; The user's role and current priorities; Standing rules; Delegation targets.

Is Inbox Zero Operator free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Inbox Zero Operator

Q: How do I know the Inbox Zero Operator output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Every thread has a class and a one-line why — no silent skips; Every 🟡 has a draft; every 🔵 has a date and trigger; The 🔴 list is ranked and short — if everything needs the user, the triage failed; The action plan was shown and approved before any mailbox mutation.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 ⚙ ships an executable helper pm-operator

Drive an email inbox to zero through a computer-use or tool-using agent — triage every message into act/delegate/defer/archive with drafts prepared, never a send. Use when asked to get my inbox to zero, triage my email hands-on, process my inbox for me, or run inbox zero. Produces the triage ledger, prepared reply drafts, and an approval-gated action plan the agent then executes read-mostly.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸Scope — whole inbox, unread only, or a date range (default: unread, newest 100)

▸The user's role and current priorities — triage without priorities is sorting, not judgment

▸Standing rules — senders who always matter, threads to never touch, newsletters policy

▸Delegation targets — who drafts can be addressed to

✅ 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 thread has a class and a one-line why — no silent skips

✓Every 🟡 has a draft; every 🔵 has a date and trigger

✓The 🔴 list is ranked and short — if everything needs the user, the triage failed

✓The action plan was shown and approved before any mailbox mutation

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not send anything, ever — drafts are the ceiling of this skill's authority

Do not delete — archive with labels; deletion is a human's irreversible call

Do not mark-as-read what you didn't triage — cosmetic zero is lying with a mailbox

Do not defer without a date — that's the pile with extra steps

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-mcp

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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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