inbox-zero SKILL.md skillA
inbox-zero from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/inbox-zero@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/inbox-zero/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 3,577 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- MIT
Processes any email backlog to zero using the 4Ds - Delete, Delegate, Defer, Do - with a mass-archive strategy for the obvious, a touch-each-email-once discipline, and a keep-it-clear system of batched processing windows, ruthless unsubscribing, filters, and a minimal folder setup. Use when someone says "I have 5,000 unread emails", "help me get to inbox zero", "email is eating my whole day", or treats their inbox as a to-do list. Do NOT use for drafting the reply emails themselves or…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Inbox Zero Inbox Zero isn't an empty inbox for its own sake - it's a clear mind. The inbox is a processing queue, not a storage system or a to-do list. This skill clears it and keeps it clear. ## The core idea Your inbox should hold only **unprocessed** messages. Once you've looked at an email, it should not stay in the inbox - it gets a decision. Touch each email once. ## The 4Ds For every email, make one of four decisions immediately: - **Delete** (or Archive) - no action needed, no future reference. Most email is this. Be ruthless; you can always search archive later. - **Delegate** - someone else should own it. Forward with clear context and a deadline, then archive it from your inbox (track the handoff elsewhere if needed). - **Defer** - needs action but not now, or takes > 2 minutes. Move it to your task system or a "Today/This week" follow-up label, then archive. The action lives in your tasks, not your inbox. - **Do** - if it takes **under 2 minutes**, handle it right now, then archive. Deferring a 1-minute reply costs more than doing it. ## Processing the backlog 1. **Sort by sender or subject** to batch similar items. …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/inbox-zero@sha256:1ba24da1590499c4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 3,577 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 3,545 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 3,587 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3577 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 24 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rwkswadezv7tn5ix GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/inbox-zero GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ba24da1590499c49df32abbc153f3a9454a2f68e55d1fe4c0fc058ecdd620fd
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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