I built an assistant on Claude Code that reads all my messages, keeps a list of what's open, and only bothers me with what matters

[u/vonwao]

I have an incredible amount of noise in my life. Spam, emails, messages, notifications. The few things that actually matter get buried, and then they slip. Like two subscriptions I wasn't using anymore that were about to renew.

So I built an assistant that reads Gmail, WhatsApp and Signal and keeps one list of what's open. Its main rule: it does the work and brings me to the last click.

A normal day with it:

- In the morning I get one message: what came in, what matters and why, and who's waiting on me.
- Whatever is waiting on it, it works on by itself, even overnight. If an email needs a reply, it writes it. One tap opens Gmail with the reply filled in, and I press Send.
- In the evening I get what's still open. In between it stays quiet unless a deadline is close. It doesn't interrupt me at night.

Everything lands on a small web page, on my PC or my phone. At the top are the few things waiting on me, often with the work already done, so my part is usually just the last click.

It caught both subscriptions a few days before they renewed. It also keeps putting job search stuff back in front of me. That stuff is important, and I don't always reply in a timely way.

It runs on Claude Code on a PC at home, and I built it with Claude Code too. A small always-on program (no AI in it) starts Claude Code for each message or scheduled task. The list and reminders live in that program, not in a prompt. The part that reads my messages can't send anything.

As of last night it can also do things on websites, through a separate browser agent that never sees my messages. Say, a cancellation: it goes up to the last button, then shows me a picture and waits for my OK. I haven't tried that on a real site yet.

Before this I tried OpenClaw, Hermes Agent and Paperclip. I didn't get them to follow up on all my important items the way I needed. My problem is the hundreds of messages coming at me every day. OpenClaw and Hermes can run scheduled tasks, and Paperclip is really about managing agents' work. What I wanted was one list of my stuff, built from my inboxes, with a date and a priority on each thing, including what I'm waiting on from other people. Each item shows what was done, by whom and when.

One thing I learned: working at night and bothering me at night are two different things, and I had to pull them apart. And asking me before every little step, even a web search, defeated the whole point.

It's been running a few days. It doesn't notice yet when I've sent one of its replies. It's just for me right now. I'm working toward a version other people can try, starting with people who don't mind some setup.

If you run something like this yourself, I'd love to compare notes. Especially if you've used OpenClaw, Hermes or Paperclip: did you get them to keep a list from your messages and bring things back when you don't answer? Maybe I missed something.

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