Email Unsubscribe Check

Scan recent inbox emails to surface promotional, newsletter, and digest senders the user likely wants to unsubscribe from. Actually unsubscribe via browser automation.

Workflow

digraph unsubscribe_check {
    "Search recent inbox emails" -> "Group by sender domain";
    "Group by sender domain" -> "Classify each sender";
    "Classify each sender" -> "Obvious unsubscribe?";
    "Obvious unsubscribe?" -> "Present to user for confirmation" [label="yes"];
    "Obvious unsubscribe?" -> "Borderline?" [label="no"];
    "Borderline?" -> "Ask user" [label="yes"];
    "Borderline?" -> "Skip" [label="no, personal"];
    "Present to user for confirmation" -> "User confirms?";
    "User confirms?" -> "Actually unsubscribe" [label="yes"];
    "User confirms?" -> "Skip" [label="no"];
    "Actually unsubscribe" -> "Mark matching emails read + archive";
    "Mark matching emails read + archive" -> "Create Gmail filter";
    "Create Gmail filter" -> "Retroactively clean old emails";
}

Execution Default

• Start the workflow immediately when this skill is invoked.
• Do not ask a kickoff question like "should I start now?".
• Default scan window is newer_than:7d unless the user already specified a different range.
• Only ask a follow-up question before starting if required information is missing and execution would otherwise be blocked.

How to Scan

1. Search recent emails: newer_than:7d (or wider if user requests)
2. Identify senders that look promotional/automated/digest
3. Present findings grouped by confidence:
   • Clearly unsubscribeable: marketing, promos, digests user never engages with
   • Ask user: newsletters, community content, event platforms (might be wanted)

Unsubscribe Execution

For each confirmed sender, do ALL of these:

1. Actually unsubscribe via browser (most important step)

Two approaches depending on the sender:

For emails with unsubscribe links:

• Read the email via Gmail MCP to find the unsubscribe URL (usually at bottom of email body)
• Navigate to the URL with Chrome DevTools MCP
• Take a snapshot, find the confirmation button/checkbox
• Click through to complete the unsubscribe
• Verify the confirmation page

For services with email settings pages (Nextdoor, LinkedIn, etc.):

• Navigate to the service's notification/email settings page
• Log in using credentials from pass if needed
• Find and disable all email notification toggles
• Check ALL categories (digests, alerts, promotions, etc.)

2. Create Gmail filter as backup

Even after unsubscribing, create a filter to catch stragglers:

create_filter criteria:{from:"domain.com"} action:{removeLabelIds:["INBOX"]}

3. Mark old emails as read and archive them (minimum hygiene)

After unsubscribing, clean up existing email from the sender.

• At minimum: mark them as read.
• Preferred/default: also archive them (remove INBOX label).

Example:

search_emails query:"from:domain.com" maxResults:50
batch_modify_emails messageIds:[...] removeLabelIds:["UNREAD","INBOX"]

Signals That an Email is Unsubscribeable

• "no-reply@" or "newsletter@" sender addresses
• Marketing subject lines: sales, promotions, "don't miss", digests
• Bulk senders: Nextdoor, Yelp, LinkedIn digest, social media notifications
• Community digests the user doesn't engage with
• Financial marketing (not transactional alerts)
• "Your weekly/daily/monthly" summaries

Signals to NOT Auto-Unsubscribe (Ask First)

• Patreon/creator content
• Event platforms (Luma, Eventbrite, Meetup)
• Professional communities
• Services the user actively uses (even if noisy)
• Transactional emails from wanted services