Messages
A comprehensive AI agent skill for managing the full spectrum of incoming messages across email, chat, and other communication channels. Triages by urgency and importance, drafts replies in your voice, tracks threads waiting for responses, reduces notification noise, and gives you a single clear picture of your communication landscape every day.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ethagent/messagesMessages
120 Messages a Day
That is the average number of messages a working professional receives across all channels daily. Email. Slack. WhatsApp. iMessage. LinkedIn. Teams. Telegram. Each platform optimized to surface everything with equal urgency, which means nothing has real urgency, which means the actually important things get buried.
The math on attention is brutal. If you spend an average of ninety seconds per message — reading, deciding, responding or deferring — 120 messages costs three hours of your day. Every day. That is roughly 700 hours per year. Seventeen and a half standard work weeks. Gone to message triage.
And that is assuming you are making good decisions in those ninety seconds. Most people are not. The context-switching cost of moving between a project, an urgent client message, a team chat notification, and a promotional email before returning to the project is a cognitive tax that compounds with every interruption.
Messages does not reduce the volume of what people send you. It radically reduces the cost of dealing with it.
The Daily Message Briefing
Once a day — or whenever you ask — the skill produces a complete picture of your incoming messages across all connected channels.
Everything is sorted into four categories based on genuine urgency and importance, not the sender's perception of those things.
Requires your response today. These are messages where delay has a real cost — a client waiting on a decision, a colleague blocked on your input, a time-sensitive opportunity. This list is kept deliberately short. If everything is urgent, nothing is.
Requires your response this week. Important but not time-critical. These get attention, just not right now.
Useful to know, no action needed. Information worth having. Status updates, FYI forwards, replies to threads you initiated. Summarized collectively so you can absorb the substance without reading each one.
Noise. Promotional content, automated notifications, newsletters from lists you forgot you joined, social platform alerts. Counted and batched. Never individually surfaced. Cleared efficiently with your confirmation.
Replies Written in Your Voice
For every message in the first category, the skill drafts a reply.
Voice matching is not a feature that works once and then gets forgotten. The skill reads your existing sent messages — the way you open conversations, the length you tend to write, the level of formality you use with different people, the phrases that are distinctively yours — and applies this understanding to every draft.
The result is a reply that sounds like you wrote it, because in the most meaningful sense, you did. The skill assembled the right words in the right order for this specific person and this specific situation. You review, adjust if needed, and approve.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-ethagent-messages": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
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