topic-emails_skill

Overview

This skill retrieves Gmail threads that match a requested topic and delivers a prioritized digest with concise summaries, key correspondents, and direct deep links for follow-up. It supports optional timeframe, label, and participant filters and formats results for quick briefing or action. The output is designed for fast stakeholder handoffs and immediate follow-up.

How this skill works

The skill builds precise Gmail search queries from the confirmed topic, timeframe, exclusions, and participant filters, then calls search_gmail_messages to gather matching threads. It expands each thread with read_gmail_thread to extract subjects, timestamps, participants, and message IDs, de-duplicates results, scores relevance, and flags decisions or action items. Finally, it produces a scannable digest that includes a snapshot, spotlight threads, a full log for export, and suggested next steps.

When to use it

• Prepare for a meeting that needs email evidence on a project or client
• Audit historical decisions, approvals, or commitments tied to a keyword
• Collect all correspondence about a campaign, product, or initiative across teams
• Create a briefing for stakeholders with direct links to source threads
• Investigate how a topic evolved over time across participants

Best practices

• Confirm exact topic wording, synonyms, and spelling before searching
• Specify a clear timeframe or accept default recent window to limit noise
• Exclude noisy labels (Promotions, Social, Spam) and known senders to improve signal
• Prefer quoted phrases or subject: operators for precise hits
• Ask for CSV-ready output when you need spreadsheet exports or tracking

Example use cases

• "Pull every email about Q4 pricing changes in the last 90 days" to assemble approvals and stakeholders
• "Show threads related to Acme onboarding" to prepare a handoff package
• "Find all emails mentioning the privacy waiver across legal and product teams" for audit evidence
• "Collect correspondence from jane@company.com about Project X between Jan–Mar" to surface open actions