Sent after the draft commits, fire and forget. A mail failure must never mark a draft that was written correctly as failed: the review queue is what the admin actually works from, and the email is a convenience on top of it.
Every quiet path returns rather than throws. No recipient configured is not an error — nobody has said where to send it and the draft is waiting regardless. No INTAKE_ACTION_SECRET means the two shortcut links render empty rather than broken, because a link that could not be verified is worse than none. An item with no draft row simply returns.
A missing description is said plainly rather than left blank. An empty paragraph in a notification reads as a bug; "no description was drafted for this item" reads as the fact that it is, and tells the admin what to expect on the screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
