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morning-briefing

Generates a morning briefing that triages your inbox and previews your day using the Superhuman Mail MCP server — acting as an AI chief of staff. Use this skill whenever someone asks to "brief me on my day", "triage my inbox", "what's important in my email", "summarize my unread emails", "what do I need to deal with today", "chief of staff briefing", "morning update", "inbox summary", "what emails need my attention", "clear my inbox", or any variation of wanting a prioritized view of their email and calendar before they start working. Also trigger when someone says "I just woke up, what's going on" or "catch me up on my inbox". Trigger broadly — if someone wants to understand the state of their inbox or day at a glance, this skill should activate.

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Quality

83%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

SKILL.md
Quality
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Security

Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a strong, actionable skill that provides clear step-by-step guidance with specific MCP tool calls and parameters. The workflow is well-sequenced with a complete output template and safety guardrails. Minor weaknesses include some unnecessary framing/explanatory text and a slightly long single-file structure that could benefit from tighter editing.

Suggestions

Trim the introductory paragraphs — Claude doesn't need to be told 'Your job is to give the user a calm, structured start to their day' or what the MCP server does at a high level. Jump straight into the workflow.

Consider extracting the detailed categorization criteria (Urgent/Important/FYI/Noise definitions) into a referenced file to keep the main SKILL.md as a leaner overview.

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Conciseness

The skill is mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary framing (e.g., 'Your job is to give the user a calm, structured start to their day') and explanatory text that Claude doesn't need. The preamble about what the skill does and the MCP server could be trimmed. However, the categorization criteria and action steps are well-justified and earn their tokens.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides specific MCP tool calls with exact parameter names (e.g., `is_unread: true`, `labels: ["INBOX"]`, `limit: 50`), concrete query strings to use, specific tool methods like `Superhuman_Mail.create_or_update_draft` and `Superhuman_Mail.update_thread`, and a complete output template. This is highly executable guidance.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The four-step workflow is clearly sequenced (gather → categorize → present → offer actions), with explicit parallel execution in Step 1, clear categorization criteria in Step 2, a structured output template in Step 3, and concrete follow-up actions in Step 4. The 'Important notes' section includes edge case handling (50+ unread inbox) and a critical safety constraint (never send without approval).

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The content is well-structured with clear headers and logical sections, but it's a fairly long single file with no references to supporting materials. The categorization criteria, output template, and important notes could potentially be split into referenced files for a cleaner overview. However, for a skill of this complexity, keeping it in one file is defensible.

2 / 3

Total

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Passed

Description

89%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is a strong description with excellent trigger term coverage and completeness. The 'when to use' guidance is thorough with many natural user phrases. The main weakness is that the 'what it does' portion could be more specific about the concrete actions performed (e.g., categorizing emails, listing calendar events, flagging urgent items). Additionally, the description uses second person ('your inbox', 'your day') rather than third person, which is a minor style issue per the rubric guidelines.

Suggestions

Replace vague capability language with specific concrete actions, e.g., 'Categorizes unread emails by priority, summarizes key threads, flags urgent items requiring response, and lists upcoming calendar events' instead of 'triages your inbox and previews your day'.

Rewrite in third person voice ('Generates a morning briefing that triages the user's inbox') instead of second person ('triages your inbox') to align with style guidelines.

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Specificity

It names the domain (inbox triage, morning briefing, calendar preview) and mentions the Superhuman Mail MCP server, but the actual concrete actions are somewhat vague — 'triages your inbox and previews your day' doesn't list specific operations like 'categorizes emails by priority, summarizes unread threads, lists calendar events'.

2 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both what ('generates a morning briefing that triages your inbox and previews your day') and when (extensive 'Use this skill whenever...' clause with explicit trigger phrases and a broad activation guideline).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural trigger phrases users would actually say: 'brief me on my day', 'triage my inbox', 'what's important in my email', 'summarize my unread emails', 'morning update', 'inbox summary', 'catch me up on my inbox', 'I just woke up, what's going on'. These are highly natural and varied.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive — it's specifically about morning briefings via the Superhuman Mail MCP server, acting as an AI chief of staff. The combination of email triage + calendar preview + specific tool integration makes it unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

11

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
superhuman/mcp-mail
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