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Tend

Your work is a loop

An experimental, open-source system for tending to your knowledge work

Beneath all the meetings and emails and meeting recaps in emails, your day runs on a specific cycle:

A loop: you read what came in, you decide what to do, you handle it.

Clear it by hand, and tomorrow's pile waits anyway. It's a loop. A loop is something you can tend to.

Tend runs the routine middle of your work loop. It's an open-source prompt from Every that makes Codex (or Claude) your decision layer—sweeping Gmail, Cora, Slack, and more and turning each item into a card with a summary, a drafted reply, or a next action for you to take.

Knowledge work is full of choices that resist fixed rules. With Tend, you never miss a decision that needs to be made by you. You can just do it faster.

From your work context comes each card. From each card, you approve, edit, or redirect—nothing sends without your sign-off.
Then you can get back to work.

The best part? Tend compounds. Every call you make enhances the loop automatically, teaching it for tomorrow, so the next sweep needs less of you.

It's how Dan Shipper has held inbox zero for three months and counting. Now, it's how you can too.

Try it

Cora, Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, iMessage, Codex, and Claude

How it works

Paste the prompt

Copy the install block above into Codex or Claude. Tend sets itself up and asks which feeds to sweep first.

AI sweeps

Your AI platform of choice pulls your feeds and turns each item into a card. We recommend connecting Slack along with your email to get started.

Tend to your stack

Approve, edit, skip, or tell it something else to do. Codex or Claude tends to it for you, and remembers it for next time.

How we Tend

Cora and Gmail

Email

Every message in your inbox becomes a card with a summary and a draft. Clear the inbox even faster by talking
(Monologue is great for this).

Slack

Slack

Threads you got pulled into, decisions you need to make now, action items buried in your notes, even conversations you're not in but want to watch. It all lands in the same stack, so nothing gets missed.
Cora, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, iMessage, and more

Point it at anything

Your hiring pipeline, your churn numbers, your support queue—Tend runs the same loop on those too. It's open source: Describe what you want to your AI of choice and it gets built inside Tend.

Build threads

Tend lets you build threads to organize your to-dos however you'd like. Make ones for meetings you missed, emails from your family, finances, priority responses, or anything else.
experimentbyEvery

Tend is an experiment from Every to explore a new way of working with Codex. It comes with no support and no guarantees of stability, compatibility, correctness, data retention, or continued development. Expect breaking changes, keep backups, and do not rely on Tend for critical or irreversible workflows. The software is provided "as is" under the MIT License.