Designing Agent Email Addresses That Humans Trust

<p>Most "AI agent that emails for you" demos point a language model at a human's Gmail inbox over OAuth. That works until the agent needs its own identity: an address people reply

<p>There's a specific kind of friction in provisioning infrastructure through a web UI: you're building an automated system, but step one is clicking through a dashboard. For

<p>Your procurement agent needs three quotes for a hardware order. The vendor on the other side runs a sales agent that answers pricing questions automatically. Neither team has

<p>Sending to dead or hostile addresses tanks your deliverability. A hard bounce means the mailbox doesn't exist; a complaint means a human hit "this is spam." Mailbox providers

<p>Most "AI email agent" demos end with a triumphant <code>send</code>. The model writes a reply, the code POSTs it, and a real message lands in a real stranger's inbox. That's a

<p>On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code — its flagship AI coding agent — inside a routine npm update. No hack. No reverse

<p>When an autonomous agent gets an email address of its own, the first question your security team asks isn't "can it send mail?" It's "can you prove, six months from now,

<p>OAuth grants answer the question "can this app act as me?" An autonomous agent needs an answer to a different question: "can this thing act as itself?" Most teams wire an AI