Automate Your Email Triage in Claude Cowork Slack + Scheduled Tasks

You built the skill. It works. But you still have to remember to run it and that defeats half the point. This video turns the email triage skill into a fully automated morning digest. What we cover: → Connecting the Slack connector so Claude can push the triage summary to a channel instead of the chat window → Updating the email triage skill MD to add a Slack delivery step without rewriting the whole skill → Why you must always test manually before scheduling: if you schedule something broken, it fails silently → Fixing a real mistake live: two skills with the same name causing the wrong one to load → 3 ways to schedule a skill: the schedule panel, an in-session command, or during skill creation → Setting up the email triage to run automatically at 8am, 12pm, and 5pm daily with one prompt Timestamps: 00:00 — Recap: email triage skill works, but still needs manual trigger 00:38 — 3 things in this video: Slack, skill update, scheduling 01:24 — Connecting the Slack connector 02:19 — Updating the skill MD to add a Slack step 03:00 — Writing the prompt to update the skill 03:26 — Creating a dedicated Slack channel for triage results 05:46 — Slack channel ID auto-grabbed from channel name 06:13 — Manual test with Gmail + Slack connectors on 07:38 — Fixing the skill naming conflict 08:45 — The rule: always test manually before scheduling 09:35 — Triage summary lands in Slack channel 10:39 — Scheduling overview: 3 methods 11:00 — Method 1: Schedule panel set up with Claude 13:23 — Method 2: In-session scheduled command 15:31 — Method 3: Schedule during skill creation 16:20 — Final result: 8am, 12pm, 5pm daily runs active