agentmailkit 0.1.0

Local-first engine for scheduled, LLM-generated email digests that read your own data and never leave your machine.

agentmailkit

Scheduled, LLM-written email digests that run on your machine, read your own files, and send from your own inbox.

→ See real emails it produces

Live samples, generated end to end. Nothing hand-written. Start there, it explains this faster than the README can.

pip install agentmailkit
agentmailkit run morning-brief --dry-run   # five example jobs ship with it, so this works immediately
agentmailkit quickstart                    # render all five to a local HTML gallery; never sends
agentmailkit init                          # copy them into ./jobs to make them yours

MIT licensed. No account, no vendor, no cloud required.

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What it is

An email is two files: a JSON job and a markdown prompt.

{
  "id": "morning-brief",
  "schedule": "0 7 * * *",
  "sources": ["papers=arxiv:cs.AI#6", "weather=weather:Brooklyn"],
  "render": "warm",
  "delivery": "gmail",
  "dedup": true
}

The engine runs one fixed pipeline and never grows a special case:

gather sources -> render prompt -> generate -> gate -> theme -> deliver -> post

Why not the built-in schedulers

ChatGPT Tasks, Claude Routines, Gemini Scheduled Actions and Copilot all execute in the vendor's cloud, which costs them two things:

• They cannot read the files on your computer. Not ~/notes, not a local database, not your git working tree.
• They cannot send real email from your inbox. Output stays inside their app.

agentmailkit runs where your data already is. Nothing is uploaded except the prompt you choose to send to a model, and with a local model, not even that.

And it is deterministic. It is not an autonomous agent: it does not decide things, wander your filesystem, or act unrequested. The model writes the words; the engine owns everything else, so the same job produces the same shaped email every run. Local OSS agents can also read files and send mail, but they are broad autonomous systems you configure down to a task. This does one job, predictably, for years.

Full comparison including the honest counter-case: docs/comparison.md.

For agents

Hand your coding agent this link and it will set the whole thing up, asking you the right questions as it goes:

https://github.com/ariaxhan/agentmailkit/blob/main/AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md is a complete setup runbook: what to ask you, how to install, how to build your first job, how to verify before anything can send, and how to schedule it. CLAUDE.md is a symlink to the same file, so they can never drift apart.

What ships

Job	Pulls	Interesting because
morning-brief	weather, three news outlets, on-this-day	Outlets stay labelled, so the model can contrast their framing
curiosity	archaeology and astronomy feeds, history	No work content at all, on purpose
research-digest	Hugging Face, arXiv	Real ids, counts and links the model cannot invent
repo-pulse	git log, diffstat, TODO markers	Reads your working tree, which no cloud scheduler can
daily-brief	local files, git log	The minimal shape to copy

Ten sources built in: file, glob, recent, shell, hf, arxiv, rss, news, history, weather. Anything with a feed or an API joins them in about thirty lines.

Ideas worth stealing: your city's council agendas, security advisories for your exact dependency list, exchange rates, a friend's blog, release notes for the tools you use, tide tables, ISS pass times over your house.

Nothing repeats. A seen-ledger strips already-sent items before the model ever sees them, so day two is not a reprint of day one.

Docs

Quickstart	Five minutes to a real email
Setup guide for agents	Hand this to your coding agent
Sources	All ten, with arguments and examples
Jobs and prompts	Every job field, prompt conventions
Themes	The renderer, palettes, enforced house style
Dedup	The seen-ledger contract
Delivery and config	Gmail, SMTP, gates, configuration
Models	Backends, and why they are text-only
Scheduling	cron, launchd, systemd, CI, and the cloud tradeoff
Taper pieces	The optional computational-poetry companion
Plugins	Write a source in about thirty lines
Comparison	Versus cloud schedulers and local agents, honestly

Install

pip install agentmailkit            # core, standard library only
pip install agentmailkit[gmail]     # + Gmail delivery
pip install agentmailkit[all]       # + Anthropic and OpenAI backends

The core has zero required dependencies. Backends pull their own libraries only when enabled.

Status

Alpha (0.1.0). Engine, plugins, dedup, themes, delivery and scheduler emitters all work and are exercised end to end against live APIs. quickstart renders a full sample set from your own data on first run, with no keys and no network round-trip, and cannot send by construction.

Known rough edges: the five shipped jobs carry example defaults (weather:Brooklyn, a fixed news trio) that you are expected to edit after agentmailkit init.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome. The rule that governs review: behaviour is configuration, not code. If a change adds an if to the engine for one email's sake, it probably wants to be a plugin.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.