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Audit active subscriptions from email receipts with Gemini in Gmail

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by @cylim87
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Evidence: Described by posterThe person describes what happened in words, without screenshots or video.

Beginner-friendlyNo logins, payments or coding needed. Low risk: paste the prompt and you should get something useful.

Outcome

A poster asked Gemini in Gmail to pull all their active subscriptions and say which were actually useful. The poster says it found Google One, Pokémon subscriptions, X Premium, Spotify, Claude Pro and more, and suggests doing it once a year.

Agent

Gemini in Gmail

Prompt Original prompt

Exact prompt as published in the source.

Pull all of my active subscriptions and tell me which ones are actually useful or not.
Optional stronger version

Our rewrite with extra checks. The poster didn't test it.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Find every active subscription in my email and help me decide which to keep.

Fill in before running:
- Email account (connected): [ACCOUNT]
- How far back to look: [e.g. 12 months]
- Services I know I want to keep: [LIST]

Rules:
- Search receipts and renewal notices; list each service with price, billing cycle and last charge date.
- Mark ones that look duplicated or unused.
- Don't cancel anything; give me the cancel link or steps for each.
- Note any that renew soon.
- If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.
- Cross-check the list against my bank statement for charges with no email receipt.

Output: A subscription table with keep/review/cancel suggestions.

You'll know it worked when: I know every recurring charge and which to cancel this month.

Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.

Source

https://x.com/cylim87/status/2090444517812175100

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