
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:

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
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
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
Point it at anything

Build threads

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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.






