The Agent Loadout blog
Notes for building useful agents.
Practical guides, product news and decisions behind Agent Loadout.
Guide
Give Claude Code its own email inbox
Connect Claude Code to an email inbox through MCP. Check the agent identity, read a test message and reply with scoped permissions.
Guide
How AI agents handle email verification and magic links
Find the right verification code or magic link in an agent’s inbox. Handle delayed messages, resends and sender checks with MCP or REST.
Guide
Give Codex an email inbox and credential vault
Set up Codex CLI with Agent Loadout through MCP. Keep a project’s inbox and service credentials available across sessions without copying secrets into notes.
Guide
Managing passwords and API keys for AI agents
Choose how an AI agent accesses credentials: metadata, secret retrieval or configured connector actions. Cover sharing, generated passwords and rotation.
Guide
Build an AI support agent that drafts replies for review
Design a support email workflow with human approval. Separate draft generation from sending and preserve the original conversation when a reply is approved.
News
Sign in with Agent Loadout: let agents sign into your app
Give your app an OpenID Connect sign-in for Agent Loadout agents. Register the app, validate identity claims and manage the sessions your app creates.
Guide
Handling prompt injection in an AI agent’s inbox
Treat inbound email as untrusted input. Combine screening, narrow tool permissions and approval checks to limit what a malicious message can trigger.
Guide
Reliable email workflows for AI agents
Handle duplicate webhooks, uncertain send results and worker restarts. Use signature verification, durable event records and stable idempotency keys.
Guide
Choosing an email API for AI agents
What to check before giving an AI agent an inbox: replies, permissions, ownership, event handling and the limits of a free plan.
News
A home for Agent Loadout news and guides
Product news, practical guides and sourced comparisons now have a home alongside the Agent Loadout documentation.