Objective

• Aggressively reduce unread personal Gmail while preserving a small, high-signal unread set for billing, receipts, renewals, USPS, tennis scheduling, starred mail, security alerts, medical/test-result messages, and real human follow-up.

What changed

• Reduced unread inbox from 174 to 43 and total unread from 218 to 87.
• Cleared 80+ low-risk messages by marking read and archiving promotions, newsletters, retail offers misfiled under Updates, GitHub/Render/Semrush/Firecrawl workflow noise, Local Services call alerts, stale daily summaries, older USPS digests, auction outbid churn, and non-urgent shipping notices.
• Reused Gmail labels 05. Marketing, 04. FYI, Saved receipts, Subscriptions, and Archived by Notion Agent to preserve the prior triage taxonomy.
• Corrected one label-drift mistake where two CaringBridge messages were accidentally caught in a Subscriptions batch because stale message IDs from an earlier query were reused.
• Updated /Users/samaguiar/.codex/automations/gmail-daily-triage/memory.md with the new run summary and filter/watchlist candidates.

Commands and live systems touched

• Live Gmail connector actions: _search_emails, _apply_labels_to_emails, _batch_modify_email, _archive_emails, and _list_labels.
• Local automation memory at /Users/samaguiar/.codex/automations/gmail-daily-triage/memory.md.

Highest-signal results

• Protected unread still in Inbox is mostly the right keeper set: USPS Informed Delivery for today, Local Services real customer requests, tennis/interclub scheduling, current security/sign-in alerts, CaringBridge/family-health updates, starred mail, older medical results, and current billing/problem notices.
• The main attention items intentionally left unread were the Unicorn invoice/win chain, GitHub PAT expiry, Google/Dropbox/Vercel/Instagram/Temu security events, Wayfair assembly timing, Edfinancial statement, Network Solutions monthly statement, Whisky payment issue, Google Cloud past-due billing, TopDog interclub reminder, and older Quest results.
• High-volume filter candidates surfaced clearly: CaringBridge bursts, USPS digests older than same-day, Unicorn auction churn, Local Services call alerts, Semrush/GitHub workflow mail, retail shipping senders, and self-generated summary mail from Sam@kylawoffice.com.

Rollback state

• Changes were mailbox-level Gmail label, read-state, and archive actions; no local code was changed beyond the automation memory note.
• The only explicit correction needed during the run was removing the mistaken Subscriptions label from the two CaringBridge messages.
• If rollback is needed, the remaining reference point is the updated automation memory plus the Gmail label state after the pass.

Open follow-up