Expanso Email Triage

What This Skill Does

The Expanso Email Triage skill is a sophisticated automation layer designed to transform your inbox management. By leveraging AI-powered analysis, it processes incoming emails to categorize them by urgency, context, and intent. Beyond simple sorting, this skill integrates directly with your calendar to identify scheduling conflicts or opportunities, and it generates intelligent draft responses that reflect your communication style. It acts as an intelligent layer between your mailbox and your workflow, ensuring you spend less time on administrative upkeep and more time on high-value tasks.

Installation

To get started, ensure you have the expanso-edge binary installed in your system PATH. Once the prerequisite is met, you can easily install the skill using the ClawHub command-line interface. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/aronchick/expanso-email-triage

After installation, you can verify the setup by running the pipelines locally using the provided pipeline-cli.yaml or pipeline-mcp.yaml files. If you are operating within a team environment, you can also deploy the skill directly to Expanso Cloud for persistent, server-side triage.

Use Cases

• Inbox Zero Pursuit: Automatically filter newsletters, non-urgent notifications, and CC-only threads into archive folders while surfacing critical client requests.
• Calendar Syncing: Automatically extract meeting requests from emails and suggest calendar blocks or draft responses asking for alternative times based on your current schedule.
• Drafting Automation: For recurring types of emails, such as vendor inquiries or status updates, have the AI draft pre-populated replies that only require a quick review and click to send.

Example Prompts

1. "Triage my inbox for today; flag anything that requires a response within the next four hours and ignore all marketing newsletters."
2. "Look at the thread from John regarding the project launch and draft a polite reply suggesting a 30-minute sync for Tuesday afternoon."
3. "Summarize the recent email thread about the budget revision and highlight the three specific action items assigned to me."

Tips & Limitations

For best results, maintain clear communication preferences in your system configuration. Remember that the AI draft is a starting point; always review for tone and accuracy before sending. Note that this skill requires consistent network access to interact with your mail server, so verify your credentials and permissions within the skill.yaml file after deployment to avoid connectivity interruptions.