Get a Codex daily brief with Things 3 todos

Goal: Turn my morning email into Things 3 todos automatically.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude, Codex; tools/MCPs stated: Things 3, MCP.
Steps:
1. Build an MCP (with an MCP app UI) for your todo app, here Things 3.
2. Schedule a morning daily brief in which Codex checks all your emails.
3. Review the suggested todos in the conversation and add them.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Martin Merschroth — https://x.com/majroth/status/2101366598766633425 (summarised from source; the source has no explicit step list)

Steps are our summary of the source (it has no explicit step list). Includes a “Based on” credit line.