Inbox Cleanup

Inbox Cleanup is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by vellum-ai in vellum-assistant.

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Install Inbox Cleanup

Copy Inbox Cleanup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/tree/main/skills/inbox-cleanup ~/.claude/skills/inbox-cleanup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/inbox-cleanup/SKILL.md in vellum-ai/vellum-assistant
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/inbox-cleanup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Inbox Cleanup does

Inbox Cleanup runs a high-recall, multi-pass email inbox cleanup using pattern-based subject queries, urgency triage, and classification signals. Use it to archive newsletters, cold outreach, and transactional noise while protecting VIP senders and confirming sensitive categories before bulk action.

Inbox Cleanup is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Inbox Cleanup comes from a repository tagged agent, agentic-ai, ai-assistant, anthropic and autonomous-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Inbox Cleanup Skill

A playbook for large-scale email inbox cleanup. The core insight: sender-based scans are low-recall. Subject/body pattern queries catch 25x more archivable email. This skill is a multi-pass pipeline built around that insight.

Works with any connected email provider. Adapt query syntax to whatever the provider supports — the strategy (what to search for, how to decide what to archive) is universal.

Gmail is a required integration. It's declared via includes: ["gmail"] in the frontmatter so it loads synchronously on activation, not lazily after the preferences form. Load/confirm the Gmail integration the moment this skill activates — before Phase 1 — so a missing or unauthorized connection surfaces up front rather than mid-cleanup.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Inbox Cleanup

What else does vellum-ai publish alongside Inbox Cleanup?
Inbox Cleanup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Mapping, Amazon Shopping and Assistant Migration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Inbox Cleanup does, and is maintained by vellum-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the vellum-ai/vellum-assistant page.
How does Inbox Cleanup compare to other Automation skills?
Inbox Cleanup ranks #770 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Inbox Cleanup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.