Skill: Triage Inbox

SkillProductivity

Use this skill to walk the user through their unfiled or stale tasks and move them into the right Eisenhower quadrant.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Skill: Triage Inbox skill

About this capability

Stop juggling, start finishing. GSD Task Manager makes it easy to sort your to-dos into what’s urgent and what’s important, so you can finally get stuff done without burning out. It’s simple, visual, and works entirely offline.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager in public/.well-known/agent-skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this skill to walk the user through their unfiled or stale tasks and move them into the right Eisenhower quadrant.

Trigger

Invoke when the user asks to "triage", "clean up my inbox", "what should I work on", or "review my open tasks".

Steps

  1. Call list_tasks with status: "open" and sort by client_updated_at asc.
  2. Call get_task_stats to surface quadrant distribution and stale counts.
  3. For each task older than 7 days with urgent=false, important=false, suggest archive or completion. Use complete_task or delete_task only after the user confirms each action.
  4. For tasks the user reclassifies, call update_task with the new urgent / important flags. Prefer bulk_update_tasks when applying the same change to 3+ tasks.
  5. End with a one-line summary of how the quadrants shifted.

Anti-goals

  • Never auto-delete tasks without explicit user confirmation per task or batch.
  • Do not change dueAt during triage; the user may need that history.
  • Do not mark recurring tasks complete unless the user asks; completing one silently spawns the next instance.

Signals

GitHub stars
25
Forks
3
Last commit
Sep 2026
Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
triage-inbox-vscarpenter
Source
github.com/vscarpenter/gsd-task-manager