Pro tip: point your coding agent at your inbox to build a personal email filter
every · x · 2026-09-27
@every shares a reproducible inbox-filtering recipe: @jackcheng built a Jev email filter with his coding agent. The first version flagged every newsletter as urgent, so he redefined "urgent" with three checkable questions: Did a human write this? Is someone I know waiting on me? Would ignoring it cost me anything? Running those checks over 90 days of email surfaced older messages that still needed replies.
To build your own:
- Give your coding agent TypeSafe's official skill
- Show it examples you'd select, reject, or hesitate over; have it define what "urgent" means to you
- Turn that definition into separate questions with explicit yes/no criteria and how to combine them
- Blind-test on a small set you've already judged, investigate disagreements, revise, then test on fresh examples
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