How I auto-triage 200 emails a day with Aider and Nylas
Qasim Muhammad
My inbox averages 200 messages a workday. Half are noise. A quarter need a fast acknowledgement. The remainder need real work. The split is mostly stable, so the triage rules are mostly stable, so it is a good fit for an LLM. I wired Aider to it. Aider is the AI pair-programming CLI — it has a shell, it can call commands, and it speaks Python natively. Pairing it with the Nylas CLI gives a triage pipeline that runs on my laptop in the background and surfaces only the messages I should personally