About this template
Ask "what needs me?" Get two drafts. Nothing sends.
If your mornings die in a 90-minute inbox-zero block, this is the fork that does the first pass and then waits for you.
Fork it. Open the terminal. You do not need Gmail yet. Paste:
what needs me?
You get Priya Chen (pilot date) and Marcus (invoice line). Shop Weekly and the receipt stay out. Each thread comes with a draft in your voice. Ask it to send and it refuses. That refusal is the product.
What is in the fork
- inbox-triage skill — reads mail or the fixture mailbox, skips newsletters and receipts, drafts replies. The skill says "never send."
- SOUL.md — persona that keeps the human gate on.
- fixture mailbox — four messages so the demo works before any Google login.
Cron is not in the snapshot. Create the 30-minute job after you like the first live pass.
First five minutes
- Fork this template. You get an isolated Hermes microVM.
- Set
OPENROUTER_API_KEYin the Hermes config (your key, your bill). - Paste
what needs me? - Connect Gmail only when you want live mail.
No model key is stored in the snapshot. Public capture is scrubbed.
Who this is for
- Founders who already live in Gmail and want the three threads, not inbox-zero theater
- People who will not give a hosted bot send permission on day one
- Anyone who wants the box, the skill, and the drafts on a machine they own
Who this is not for
- Anyone who wants the agent to send, unsubscribe, or archive without asking
- A replacement for Monday brief or Slack daily brief (those are different jobs)
- A grocery / campsite / wedding personal bot
Risk
Every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first purchase. There is no free trial. If the digest is wrong, you get the money back. You keep the key.
Next
Fork it. Paste what needs me? You should see Priya and Marcus in under a minute.