Summarize Unread Gmail

For an operator with 50 or more unread emails who wants a compact table of sender, subject, and a one line summary, plus the single needs reply call out. It runs in a few calls, uses one server, and works from any agent.

Gmail

The grind

The inbox is overloaded

Here's what doing this by hand looks like today, and why it doesn't scale.

The morning starts with 50 or more unread and no way to triage at a glance.
Urgent asks hide between newsletters and CI noise.
The one reply that matters gets buried for hours.

MewCP collapses all of this into one prompt. Here's what that looks like.

The flow

5 steps · 1 server

Your agent runs it end-to-end

List the unread messages in the window.

Fetch the full bodies for the top 20 by recency.

Group them by thread and dedupe multiple messages in the same thread down to the latest reply.

For each thread, produce the sender name, the subject, a one sentence summary, and a needs reply flag that is true if the message ends in a direct question, a meeting request, or a deadline.

Render a compact table, and above it put a single Needs reply block listing only the flagged items.

The payoff

Zero inbox in five bullets

Operators who run this routine cut inbox triage to minutes and stop missing the one message that actually needs them.

Paste this into Claude, Codex, or any MCP-connected agent. It'll connect your apps and run the task from start to finish.

Run it yourself

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Goal: Summarize Unread Gmail

MCP servers needed (connected through MewCP): Gmail

Steps:
1. List the unread messages in the window.
2. Fetch the full bodies for the top 20 by recency.
3. Group them by thread and dedupe multiple messages in the same thread down to the latest reply.
4. For each thread, produce the sender name, the subject, a one sentence summary, and a needs reply flag that is true if the message ends in a direct question, a meeting request, or a deadline.
5. Render a compact table, and above it put a single Needs reply block listing only the flagged items.

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