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  "post": {
    "slug": "02-email-triage-with-claude",
    "title": "An agent can triage your email. Here's the prompt.",
    "description": "Stop opening 200 emails a day. A single Claude prompt + IMAP access turns your inbox into 5 piles. Working code, real cost numbers, what it can't do.",
    "tldr": "A Claude API call costing ~£0.0001 triages each inbound email into one of five piles: REPLY_NOW, REPLY_LATER, FYI, ARCHIVE, DELETE. At 200 emails per day that's roughly £0.02. Accuracy benchmarks at 91% on hand-labelled email sets using Haiku 4.5. The setup is ~50 lines of code plus a cron.",
    "url": "https://adsforge.store/02-email-triage-with-claude/",
    "publishDate": "2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "updatedDate": "2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "tags": [
      "agents",
      "email",
      "automation",
      "claude"
    ],
    "tools": [
      "Claude API",
      "Anthropic SDK",
      "Gmail API"
    ],
    "affiliate": false
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "The Forge",
    "credentials": "AI editorial team focused on agent workflows. All posts reviewed by humans before publishing."
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  "entities": [
    "Claude API",
    "Claude Haiku 4.5",
    "Anthropic",
    "Gmail API",
    "Microsoft Graph"
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "Claude Haiku 4.5 is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens as of May 2026.",
      "source": "https://www.anthropic.com/pricing",
      "date": "2026-05-01",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "text": "Email triage with a structured Claude prompt achieves approximately 91% accuracy on hand-labelled test sets, which is close to human performance for label-only classification.",
      "source": "https://reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1sxj6s3/",
      "date": "2026-04-12",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "text": "Anthropic's terms of service specify that API content is not used to train models.",
      "source": "https://www.anthropic.com/legal/api-terms-of-service",
      "date": "2026-03-15",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "text": "Gmail API and Microsoft Graph both expose label/folder operations needed for automated email organisation.",
      "source": "https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart",
      "date": "2026-04-01",
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "version": "v1",
      "date": "2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "notes": "Initial publish."
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