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Open Agent Email — DevOps skill for Claude Code

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Open-source email infrastructure for AI agents: secure inboxes, REST and MCP APIs, SMTP, human approval workflows, signed webhooks, and Python and TypeScript SDKs.

How to install Open Agent Email

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Anil-matcha/open-agent-email and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Open Agent Email does

Open-source email infrastructure for AI agents: secure inboxes, REST and MCP APIs, SMTP, human approval workflows, signed webhooks, and Python and TypeScript SDKs. Self-host with Docker and PostgreSQL.

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README

Open Agent Email

Email inboxes for AI agents. Open source, self-hosted.

Give every agent a real email address. It can receive mail, reply in the same thread, send new messages, and wait for a person to approve anything risky. Use it through a REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a command line, webhooks, a live stream, or MCP for coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE) ![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11+-blue.svg) ![Next.js](https://img.shields.io/badge/Next.js-16-black.svg) ![MCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-ready-purple.svg)

[Quickstart](docs/quickstart.md) · [How it works](#how-it-works) · [Dashboard](#the-dashboard) · [Go live](#going-live-on-a-server) · [Docs](#documentation) · [FAQ](#faq)

The Open Agent Email dashboard showing an inbox with three messages

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Why Open Agent Email

Agents that work with people end up needing email: to answer customers, confirm sign-ups, chase invoices, or hand a decision to a human. A shared Gmail login or a bare sending API gives an agent no identity of its own, no conversation history, no safety net, and nothing to stop one mistake from reaching a customer. Open Agent Email gives each agent its own address and mailbox, with the controls you would want around softw