Docket

Small firms get a lot of email that needs to be sorted, logged and answered, and missing a deadline buried in one is a real problem. The design was simple: read new mail, classify it, extract the parties and any deadlines, draft a reply, and send nothing until a person approves it.

A FastAPI backend on Postgres, using Postgres itself as the job queue with retries, backoff and a dead letter state. A Gmail provider that syncs new mail, parses it and threads replies correctly, plus a fake mailbox for testing. Classify, extract and draft steps that use forced tool calls and versioned prompts. Deadlines are quoted word for word from the email, never calculated. There are 96 backend tests.

I split the work into six streams and built them in parallel git worktrees in about two hours.

The pieces never got wired together. The worker doesn't have its job handlers registered, so nothing runs end to end yet. The review dashboard and the eval harness were started but aren't merged. I'm listing it for the queue and the Gmail sync, which I think are the solid parts.