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Let the agent draft emails, and you send them

The poster says Claude Cowork badly mishandled some important emails for her. Her fix is to use the agent only to write drafts and decide herself what actually goes out. It's a simple rule that keeps most email mistakes from reaching anyone.

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The lesson: Keep the agent on drafts. You press send.

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Go through my inbox from the last [NUMBER] days. For each email that needs a reply, write a draft and save it in my drafts folder. Don't send, delete, archive or forward anything. Give me a list of the drafts with one line on each so I can review and send them myself.

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  • Check who a draft is addressed to, not just what it says. Reply-all mistakes are hard to take back.

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Original post by @KristaMHilton on X, Oct 29, 2026. We rewrote it in our own words. Check the original for the full context.

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Turn a messy inbox into a 5-minute daily summary

Paste in today's emails and get back what needs a reply today, what can wait, what to ignore, and a one-line reply for each. It also flags emails that look like scams.

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