# Classify Message Importance

> Decide whether a message is important or not important.

- Skill: `intellectronica/classify-message-importance` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add intellectronica/classify-message-importance`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/intellectronica/classify-message-importance/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: intellectronica (https://skillmd.com/u/intellectronica)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/intellectronica/classify-message-importance

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# Classify Message Importance

Determine whether the current message is `important` or `not important`.

## Classify as important when

- it affects customers, revenue, legal terms, security, compliance, finance, or leadership decisions
- it concerns committed deliverables, executive communication, planning, or budgeting
- it affects public-facing claims, press releases, or external communications about compliance, security, or encryption
- the outcome has clear downstream consequences beyond personal convenience
- the message would merit keeping a permanent PDF record

## Classify as not important when

- it is social, optional, or low-stakes
- it concerns minor office logistics with limited business impact
- a missed response would be mildly inconvenient rather than materially costly

## Decision rule

Importance is about consequence, not speed. A message can be urgent without being important, and important without being urgent.