Claude Code prepares a reviewed dawn reply queue

Cyril Simonnet describes an agent that processes his inbox at 5am on weekdays, before he starts work. It looks for threads genuinely awaiting his response and excludes messages where he is only copied, has already replied, or a teammate has responsibility. Informational messages also stay outside the draft queue.

For selected threads, the agent prepares a reply in Simonnet's concise style, using French for French conversations and English for English ones. It knows to avoid taking an unsupported position: when requested financial figures are unavailable, it drafts a commitment to return with numbers rather than inventing them. Drafts land in the email Drafts folder, where Simonnet edits and sends them.

He reports that working from these drafts reduced his personal reply-preparation time from about ninety minutes to twenty, but the article supplies no independent timing study. The agent does not send anything itself. Simonnet's broader setup includes scheduled remote agents and local data pipelines, with retained context helping him enter a topic without starting from a blank page. The concrete result here is a filtered, bilingual morning reply queue. The useful copyable rule is to define what counts as waiting on the owner and distinguish preparation from sending, so the agent's work does not silently become an unreviewed business commitment.

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Source: Blog · Cyril Simonnet