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Introducing the Priority Rules Engine — v1.0.10

Introducing the Priority Rules Engine

Sidekick v1.0.10

Your inbox doesn't treat everything equally — and neither should your AI agent. Today's release introduces the Priority Rules Engine, a new way to tell Sidekick exactly how to triage and respond to the events that matter to you.

The Problem

An AI agent that handles your messages, email, calendar, and dev tools sees a lot of events. Not all of them deserve the same attention. A direct message from your lead investor is not the same as a promotional newsletter. A failing CI run on main is not the same as a dependabot bump on a side project.

Until now, Sidekick used its built-in judgment to decide what was urgent. That works well as a default — but your context is something only you know.

What's New

The Priority Rules Engine lets you express that context as a set of ordered rules:

  • "Always respond to messages from Alice within 5 minutes" — Sidekick treats those messages as top priority and acts on them immediately.
  • "Ignore marketing emails" — Sidekick suppresses them entirely, keeping your attention on what matters.
  • "Escalate any failed workflow on main" — No more missed CI alerts on your production branch.

Rules work across every connected integration. Any platform that sends events to Sidekick — Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, GitHub, and 100+ others — is covered.

How It Works

Rules are evaluated in the order you define them. The first matching rule wins. If nothing matches, Sidekick's default triage logic takes over. This means you can be as specific or as broad as you like — start with a few high-signal rules and expand from there.

Each rule has three parts:

  1. A condition — who, what, or where to match
  2. An action — respond urgently, defer, ignore, or escalate
  3. An optional time constraint — e.g. "within 5 minutes"

Getting Started

Open the Priority Rules panel from your Sidekick dashboard, create your first rule, and save. Changes take effect immediately — no redeploy, no restart.

For full documentation, see the Priority Rules Engine guide.

Released in Sidekick v1.0.10. View the full changelog.