// chris johnsonField notes on cybersecurity, AI-assisted development, infrastructure, and the craft of shipping things that actually work.
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Building a Gmail cleanup agent in Claude Code, evolving it from a manual 5-step script to a fully autonomous v3 with VIP detection, delta sync, auto-labeling, and follow-up tracking. Then making it run unattended every 5 hours via scheduled triggers and a remote-control daemon on a Mac Mini.
How I replaced three separate Google Workspace MCP integrations with a single gws CLI skill, why CLI beats MCP for large API surfaces, and the four-tier safety system that keeps destructive operations from running without confirmation.