Overdue Task Nudges — Automated Reminders
Sweeps your workspace for overdue or upcoming-due tasks, sends personal Slack DMs to assignees with contextual messages, and logs each nudge as a task comment so people don't get double-pinged.
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Overdue Task Nudges — Automated Reminders
Sweeps your workspace for overdue or upcoming-due tasks, sends personal Slack DMs to assignees with contextual messages, and logs each nudge as a task comment so people don't get double-pinged.
Before You Begin
- Numeric MCP connected.
- Numeric Toolkit installed.
- Slack MCP connected (for DMs) — or an email MCP (Gmail, SES, etc.) as fallback.
- At least one open period with pending tasks.
Per-task preferences live in each task's description under a ## Reminder preferences section. The skill reads them, applies them, and syncs them back after each run.
How It Works
- Ask Claude to send reminders. Example prompts:
- "Remind assignees about overdue tasks."
- "Send close reminders for this week."
- "Nudge people on late recs."
- Claude asks: run reminders for all pending tasks, or specific ones? Naming a single task triggers a quick-mode path (no full workspace sweep).
- For each task, Claude reads the
## Reminder preferencessection (or uses defaults). - Claude filters to tasks that need a nudge: past due, unblocked, outside the cooldown window.
- Claude determines recipients from task descriptions (
Notify:lines,@mentions) or falls back to the preparer/reviewer. - Claude sends one Slack DM per person, grouping all their tasks into a single message.
- Claude logs 🔔
Numeric reminder sentcomment on every task — this enforces the cooldown on future runs. - Claude syncs preferences back to each task description so next run picks up your tweaks.
What You Get
A run summary like:
✅ Messaged 3 people across 12 tasks
• Jane Smith — Cash Recon, AP Subledger, Payroll Accrual
• Bob Chen — Fixed Assets
⏸ Skipped (cooldown): 2 tasks
🔒 Skipped (blocked by dependency): 1 task
⏭ Skipped (no due date): 4 tasks
❌ Could not resolve Slack handle: 1 person
Default preferences (overridable per task):
remind_days_before_due: 0 # 0 = on/after due date only
reminder_cooldown_hours: 24 # minimum hours between nudges
channel: slack # slack = DM; email = fallback
Troubleshooting
FAQ
- Can I run this on a schedule? Yes — pair with
schedulefor daily close-week sweeps. - Can I remind someone who isn't the assignee? Yes — add
Notify: Jane, Bobor@handlesin the task description. - How does it handle blocked tasks? Detects dependency references and skips — no point nudging someone on work they can't complete.
- Does email fallback work? Only if an email MCP is connected (Gmail, SES, etc.). Otherwise logs what would have been sent and skips.
Download & Install
Download the full Numeric Toolkit (15 community skills, including this one):
Install via Claude Code CLI:
/plugin marketplace add geoff-lew/numeric-toolkit
/plugin install numeric-mcp-toolkit
Need help? Reach out to support@numeric.io.
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