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School emails to a family calendar and to-do list

A few times a day it reads your child's school emails, flyers included, and adds events and to-dos to a separate school calendar. You get a short summary only when something new shows up.

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What it does

  • Reads the last few days of email under your school label
  • Reads text from image and PDF flyers
  • Sorts items into things to attend and things to do
  • Adds new items to a dedicated school calendar and checklist
  • Emails you a summary of what changed

Your approval boundaries

Approval required

These actions always wait for your yes:

  • Moving or cancelling an event already on the calendar
  • Replying to the school or returning a form
  • Paying for anything the school asks for

You decide what happens next.

More about this workflow

This setup is for busy people who want their own day to run a little smoother. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.

First, it reads the last few days of email under your school label. Next, it reads text from image and PDF flyers. Then it sorts items into things to attend and things to do. After that, it adds new items to a dedicated school calendar and checklist. Finally, it emails you a summary of what changed. It works with your email, shared calendar and task app, each on its own login with limited access.

You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before moving or cancelling an event already on the calendar, replying to the school or returning a form and paying for anything the school asks for, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.

“A short summary email arrives only when something new shows up.”
zo718 zo718 on GitHub · Oct 17, 2026
Before you startEmail · Shared calendar accessScoped permissionsClaude Code or n8n
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Tools and access

  • Gmail

    Handles the email part of this job. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud project with an OAuth app and the Gmail API turned on. The agent signs in through OAuth with only the scopes you pick.

  • Google Calendar

    Handles the shared calendar part of this job. Grant read-only calendar scope.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud OAuth app with the Calendar API turned on.

  • Linear

    Handles the task app part of this job. Grant read plus create in one triage team.

    API required: Yes. Needs a personal API key or an OAuth app.

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Model recommendations

Best pick

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Fast and careful with your inbox and calendar.

$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens.

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Cheaper backup

Claude Haiku 5.5

Cheapest Claude option for daily sorting.

From $0.10 per million input tokens and from $0.50 per million output tokens.

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Build your prompt

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1Your details

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evening before, morning of

2Your prompt

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Fill these in before you run it: [CHILD'S NAME AND GRADE] [SCHOOL EMAIL LABEL] [WHO SHARES THE CALENDAR] [ALERT TIMES: evening before, morning of] You are the School emails to a family calendar and to-do list agent. A few times a day it reads your child's school emails, flyers included, and adds events and to-dos to a separate school calendar. You get a short summary only when something new shows up. Use only the details filled in above. If any [BRACKETED] item is still blank or unclear, stop and ask for it first. Do not guess. What you do on your own: - Reads the last few days of email under your school label - Reads text from image and PDF flyers - Sorts items into things to attend and things to do - Adds new items to a dedicated school calendar and checklist - Emails you a summary of what changed What you must never do without a yes from a person: - Moving or cancelling an event already on the calendar - Replying to the school or returning a form - Paying for anything the school asks for Rules: - Before any step on the list above, stop and ask. Say in plain words what you want to do, who it affects, and whether it can be undone. - If something cannot be undone, say so first, in one short line. - Write drafts, not final actions. A person sends, pays, posts, or deletes. - Keep a short log of every action you took and every source you read. - If you are unsure, ask instead of guessing.
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Run your workflow

Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.

Steps

Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.

  1. 1Connect Gmail with its own login, not yours. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.
  2. 2Connect Google Calendar with its own login, not yours. Grant read-only calendar scope.
  3. 3Connect Linear with its own login, not yours. Grant read plus create in one triage team.
  4. 4Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
  5. 5Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
  6. 6Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.

Safeguards and trust score

The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.

Access18 / 30

Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.

Human approval30 / 30

Waits for a yes on: moving or cancelling an event already on the calendar, replying to the school or returning a form, paying for anything the school asks for.

Undo and logs14 / 20

Proposes changes to live records, so the setup needs a change log and a way back.

Scope16 / 20

Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.

How to raise it

  • Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
  • Undo and logs: Stop it from editing live records. Have it write the change as a proposal you apply, and keep a log of every change with a way to roll it back +3
  • Scope: Cut it down from 3 connected tools to the 2 it needs most, each with its own limited login instead of your full account +2

Do all of these to reach 89, up from 78.

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