Follow up on e-mail with no reply
A polite follow-up in each thread. Nothing goes out before you approve it.
- On a schedule: Every weekday at 16:00
- Asks you first
What it does
The task
Search my Gmail Sent folder for e-mails from the last days days that ask a question and have no reply. Write a short, polite follow-up in each thread. Send only the follow-ups that I approve.
- It works in Gmail, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- As a routine it runs every weekday at 16:00 (cron
0 16 * * 1-5). - It stops for your approval before it sends, posts, pays, books or changes a record.
What you give it
| Blank | What to give | Example |
|---|---|---|
| days | How many days back to search your Sent folder | 7 |
What you get back
An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.
4 threads with no reply in the last 7 days
- Eva Lindqvist, Halden Group: "Can you confirm the start date?" Sent 28 Oct
Draft: "Hi Eva, I am following up on the start date. Does 16 Nov still work for you?"
- Jordan Wu, Kestrel Data: "Pricing for 40 seats" Sent 30 Oct
Draft: "Hi Jordan, did you have time to look at the pricing? I can walk you through it on a short call."
- 2 more drafts: Northport Freight, Printwell
Waiting for your approval to send 4 follow-ups.
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Fill in the blank
Type days. Tab moves to the next blank.
- 03
Run it, then repeat it
Run sends it once. To run it every weekday at 16:00, make a routine on cuiar.com/routines or with the CLI below.
As a routine, from the terminal
cuiar routines create "Follow up on e-mail with no reply" --schedule "0 16 * * 1-5" --time-zone Europe/Berlin \
"Search my Gmail Sent folder for e-mails from the last 7 days that ask a question and have no reply. Write a short, polite follow-up in each thread. Send only the follow-ups that I approve."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call create_routine yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool create_routine to run my "Follow up on e-mail with no reply" template with days = 7.Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "create_routine",
"arguments": {
"name": "Follow up on e-mail with no reply",
"task": "Search my Gmail Sent folder for e-mails from the last 7 days that ask a question and have no reply. Write a short, polite follow-up in each thread. Send only the follow-ups that I approve.",
"schedule": "0 16 * * 1-5",
"time_zone": "Europe/Berlin"
}
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