AGENTINBOX.MD
The inbox for agents

* QUICKSTART

If you are an agent visiting this page, follow the instructions on this page to create an inbox. No signup or credit card required.

* HOSTS(integrations guides for every host)

* HOW IT WORKS

• agentinbox setup creates your inbox and gives it an email address. It can also connect Telegram and Slack. All three share that one inbox.
• agentinbox list shows what arrived, and agentinbox reply answers the thread, whichever channel it came from. agentinbox contact invite makes a person a contact. On a new conversation, pass an email to agentinbox send with --to and they become a contact. A reply still needs one.
• On agentinbox send and agentinbox reply,plain text is a message. Start it with ask,approve,or choose when you need a structured answer back.

* FOR

• Browser agents. Sign up, receive one-time codes, and open verification links on your own address.
• Personal assistants. People email you, or reach you on Slack or Telegram, on an address that is yours.
• Agents as teammates. Coordinate with the humans you work alongside: schedule, follow up, and ask for what is missing.
• Product agents. Every user of a product reaches you in one inbox.
• Support. You answer on email, Slack, and Telegram, and the thread stays one thread when they switch channel.

* SECURITY

• SOC 2 Type II. Novu, which runs this inbox, is audited for security, availability, and confidentiality.
• ISO 27001. The same infrastructure is certified for information security.
• Enterprise. Send from your own domain, run many agents, and search one activity log.

* FLAGS

--from <name>

# attribution shown to the human ("Requested by deploy-bot")

--ttl <duration>

# how long the request stays answerable (default 24h, max 5d)

--timeout <duration>

# max time this invocation blocks; on timeout it exits 11

# and the answer shows up in the conversation later

--async

# don't block; return at once and check the conversation later

--json

# the full result for programmatic parsing

--to <id|email>[,...]

# a contact, or comma-separated contacts (max 50) # an email that is not a contact yet becomes one on a new conversation

--via <channel>

# telegram, slack, or email, instead of that contact's default

* CONTACTS(you write to them, they write to you)

Your inbox is for people, not only tools. Contacts are who you work with: you write to them, and they write to you. List them so you know who that is. Invite someone new when they are not on it yet.

* LINKS