{"slug":"openclaw-inbox-from-telegram","title":"Triage the inbox from Telegram without auto-sending","summary":"OpenClaw runs on your machine and can meet you in Telegram. This playbook asks it to sort the morning mail and draft replies it is not allowed to send.","agent":"OpenClaw","agentSlug":"openclaw","category":"Operations","categorySlug":"operations","roles":["Founder","Operations"],"roleSlugs":["founder","operations"],"industries":["Software"],"industrySlugs":["software"],"jobs":["inbox-and-calendar"],"topic":"Life Admin & Home","topicSlug":"life-admin-and-home","score":19,"difficulty":"medium","estCost":"OpenClaw's site says there is no paid tier for the software. You still pay for the model you connect, and for the machine it runs on.","costTier":"free","timeSaved":"The sort step of a morning inbox, often 20–40 minutes, after the mail connection is already working.","prompt":"Look at unread mail from the last 16 hours. Do not send, forward, delete, or archive.\n\nGroup messages into: needs a decision, waiting on someone else, newsletters, and likely phishing.\n\nFor needs-a-decision, draft a reply I can edit. Quote the sentence you are answering. If a message asks for money, credentials, or a gift card, put it in likely phishing and draft nothing.\n\nReturn at most 12 items. End with the count of unread you ignored because they were newsletters.\n\nI will tell you in this chat if a draft is allowed to be sent. Until I say \"send\", you only draft.","steps":[{"title":"Install the gateway on a machine you control","detail":"OpenClaw's docs describe a local gateway and chat channels such as Telegram. Follow the current install guide rather than a copied shell script from this page."},{"title":"Connect mail with the narrowest scope that can read","detail":"Read-only first. The project site lists inbox organization as a headline capability. Sending is a separate grant."},{"title":"Pin the prompt as the morning skill","detail":"Run it once while you watch. Correct the phishing bucket before you trust the drafts."},{"title":"Keep send as an explicit second message","detail":"The prompt refuses to send until you say so in the same chat. Do not 'fix' that on day one."}],"sourceUrl":"https://openclaw.ai/","sourceNote":"Official documentation URL, checked when this seed was written. The prompt and steps are an original AI Playbook Gems playbook, not a quotation of a customer story, and have not been re-run.","date":"2026-10-15","verified":false,"status":"unverified","sponsorUrl":"","metrics":[{"label":"Hands-on time","value":"One supervised morning"},{"label":"You still approve","value":"Every outbound message"},{"label":"Cost bucket","value":"Free software, model extra"}],"faq":[{"question":"Has this OpenClaw playbook been re-run for the catalog?","answer":"No. Status is unverified. Paste the prompt, keep the version that worked, and do not treat the time or cost lines as measurements."},{"question":"Does the mail leave the machine?","answer":"The assistant runs on your hardware. Prompts still go to the model provider you configure. Read OpenClaw's current data notes before you connect a work inbox."}],"url":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/usecases/openclaw-inbox-from-telegram","jsonUrl":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/api/usecases/openclaw-inbox-from-telegram"}