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inkbox

Python SDK for the Inkbox API — API-first communication infrastructure for AI agents (email, phone, identities, encrypted vault — login credentials, API keys, key pairs, SSH keys, OTP, etc.).

Install

pip install inkbox

Requires Python ≥ 3.11.

Authentication

You'll need an API key to use this SDK. Get one at inkbox.ai/console.

Inkbox(...) resolves api_key / base_url / vault_key from the explicit argument, then the matching env var (INKBOX_API_KEY / INKBOX_BASE_URL / INKBOX_VAULT_KEY), then a ~/.inkbox/config file (key = value lines). The file fallback is handy for background/agent processes that don't inherit the shell's env, so Inkbox() with no arguments works once the file is in place.

Quick start

import os
from inkbox import Inkbox

with Inkbox(
    api_key=os.environ["INKBOX_API_KEY"],
    vault_key=os.environ.get("INKBOX_VAULT_KEY"),
) as inkbox:
    # Create an agent identity with a linked mailbox
    identity = inkbox.create_identity("support-bot", display_name="Support Bot")
    identity.provision_phone_number()  # provisions a local number

    # Send email directly from the identity
    identity.send_email(
        to=["customer@example.com"],
        subject="Your order has shipped",
        body_text="Tracking number: 1Z999AA10123456784",
    )

    # Place an outbound call
    identity.place_call(
        to_number="+18005559999",
        client_websocket_url="wss://my-app.com/voice",
    )

    # Read inbox
    for message in identity.iter_emails():
        print(message.subject)

    # List calls
    calls = identity.list_calls()

    # Access credentials (vault unlocked at construction)
    for login in identity.credentials.list_logins():
        print(login.name, login.payload.username)

Authentication

Argument Type Default Description
api_key str required Your ApiKey_... token
base_url str API default Override for self-hosting or testing
timeout float 30.0 Request timeout in seconds

Use with Inkbox(...) as inkbox: (recommended) or call inkbox.close() manually to clean up HTTP connections.


Agent Signup

Agents can self-register without a pre-existing API key. All signup methods are class methods — no Inkbox instance required.

import os
from inkbox import Inkbox

# Sign up (public — no API key needed)
result = Inkbox.signup(
    human_email="john@example.com",
    note_to_human="Hey John, this is your sales bot signing up!",  # required
    display_name="Sales Agent",          # optional
    agent_handle="sales-agent",          # optional
    email_local_part="sales.agent",      # optional
    harness="claude-code",               # optional — selects matching plugin guidance
    invitation_token=os.getenv("INKBOX_A2A_INVITATION"),  # optional link or raw token
)
api_key = result.api_key          # save — shown only once
email = result.email_address      # e.g. "sales-agent-a1b2c3@inkboxmail.com"
handle = result.agent_handle      # e.g. "sales-agent-a1b2c3"
print(result.message)             # authoritative delivery/acceptance outcome

# A matching email-bound invitation can claim immediately without another email.
already_claimed = (
    result.invitation is not None and result.invitation.status == "accepted"
) or result.claim_status == "agent_claimed"
if not already_claimed:
    # If the email is missing, resend before submitting its 6-digit code.
    # Inkbox.resend_signup_verification(api_key)  # 5-minute cooldown
    Inkbox.verify_signup(api_key, verification_code="483921")

# Check status and restrictions
status = Inkbox.get_signup_status(api_key)
print(status.claim_status)                    # "agent_unclaimed" or "agent_claimed"
print(status.restrictions.max_sends_per_day)  # Effective 24-hour recipient-send limit
Method Auth Returns
Inkbox.signup(human_email, *, note_to_human, ..., invitation_token=None) None AgentSignupResponse
Inkbox.verify_signup(api_key, verification_code) API key AgentSignupVerifyResponse
Inkbox.resend_signup_verification(api_key) API key AgentSignupResendResponse
Inkbox.get_signup_status(api_key) API key AgentSignupStatusResponse

signup() requires human_email and note_to_human. display_name, agent_handle, email_local_part, harness, and invitation_token are optional. Omit invitation_token when signup is not part of an A2A connection invitation. When an invitation is present, signup and verification return an optional invitation summary. A claimed response includes plugin guidance in message, tailored to harness when supplied.

Note: Unclaimed agents have a limited send quota and can only email the human_email specified at signup. After verification or human approval in the console, full capabilities are unlocked.

Note: The organization_id returned at signup may change after verification or human approval. Always use the organization_id from the most recent response (verify_signup or resend_signup_verification) rather than caching the value from the initial signup() call.


Identities

inkbox.create_identity() and inkbox.get_identity() return an AgentIdentity object that holds the identity's channels and exposes convenience methods scoped to those channels.

# create_identity atomically provisions the mailbox AND the tunnel —
# both come back on the response. Phone numbers stay opt-in.
identity = inkbox.create_identity(
    "sales-bot",
    display_name="Sales Bot",
    description="Sales-outreach agent",
)
phone = identity.provision_phone_number()  # provisions a local number

print(identity.email_address)            # sales-bot@inkboxmail.com
print(identity.tunnel.public_host)       # sales-bot.inkboxwire.com
print(phone.number)

# Pin the identity's mailbox to a verified custom sending domain
# (bare name; see "Custom Sending Domains" below).
inkbox.create_identity("sales-bot-2", sending_domain="mail.acme.com")

# Provision a passthrough tunnel (tls_mode is fixed at create time)
from inkbox import IdentityTunnelCreateOptions
inkbox.create_identity("sales-bot-pt", tunnel=IdentityTunnelCreateOptions(tls_mode="passthrough"))

# Get an existing identity
identity = inkbox.get_identity("sales-bot")
identity.refresh()  # re-fetch channels from API

# Admin credentials list organization identities; agent-scoped credentials
# return only their own identity.
all_identities = inkbox.list_identities()

# Agent-scoped credentials discover peers through the A2A directory.
peers = inkbox.a2a.organization_directory()

# Update handle, display name, and description. For description,
# pass None to clear and omit the kwarg to leave untouched.
identity.update(new_handle="sales-bot-v2")
identity.update(display_name="New Name", description="New blurb")
identity.update(description=None)  # clear

# Release the phone number (vendor + local).
identity.release_phone_number()

# Delete (cascades to mailbox + tunnel + phone-number release; revokes scoped API keys).
identity.delete()

Mail

Mailbox imports

from inkbox import MailImportFormat

created = inkbox.mailboxes.imports.create(
    "agent@inkboxmail.com",
    source_format=MailImportFormat.AUTO,
    original_addresses=["old-address@example.com"],
)
inkbox.mailboxes.imports.upload(created.upload, "./archive.mbox")
inkbox.mailboxes.imports.start("agent@inkboxmail.com", str(created.job.id))
job = inkbox.mailboxes.imports.wait(
    "agent@inkboxmail.com",
    str(created.job.id),
    timeout=3600,
    poll_interval=5,
)

Supported formats are auto, mbox, eml, and zip. A ZIP may hold .eml and/or .mbox files (a Gmail Takeout ZIP imports as-is); entries that are not mail, including nested archives, are ignored. wait fetches immediately, polls every five seconds by default, and returns every terminal state, including failed and cancelled. A local timeout does not cancel the job. Counters are cumulative and never go backwards, but they can sit unchanged while a large message is processed and never yield a percentage. Jobs run one at a time per organization and share overall import capacity, so a long queued stretch is normal. Unsafe imported content may be rejected and reported in messages_rejected_unsafe.

Upload targets expire after 5 minutes; call refresh_upload_target and upload again if one expires, or cancel the job so the mailbox is not held by an upload that never landed. Other limits: 1 GiB per upload, 50 MiB per message, 100,000 messages and 20 original_addresses per job, 65,000 entries per ZIP, 20 import jobs per organization per 24 hours (MailImportQuotaExceededError carries retry_after_seconds), and one in-flight import per mailbox.

# Send an email (plain text and/or HTML)
sent = identity.send_email(
    to=["user@example.com"],
    subject="Hello from Inkbox",
    body_text="Hi there!",
    body_html="<p>Hi there!</p>",
    cc=["manager@example.com"],
    bcc=["archive@example.com"],
)

# Send a threaded reply
identity.send_email(
    to=["user@example.com"],
    subject=f"Re: {sent.subject}",
    body_text="Following up!",
    in_reply_to_message_id=sent.id,
)

# Send with attachments
identity.send_email(
    to=["user@example.com"],
    subject="See attached",
    body_text="Please find the file attached.",
    attachments=[{
        "filename": "report.pdf",
        "content_type": "application/pdf",
        "content_base64": "<base64-encoded-content>",
    }],
)

# Inline images: set content_id on an image attachment and reference it from
# body_html as cid:<content_id>. Requires body_html + an image/* content_type,
# a unique id per send, and is not supported on forwards.
identity.send_email(
    to=["user@example.com"],
    subject="Weekly report",
    body_html='<p>Revenue:</p><img src="cid:chart">',
    attachments=[{
        "filename": "chart.png",
        "content_type": "image/png",
        "content_base64": "<base64-encoded-content>",
        "content_id": "chart",
    }],
)

# Track opens: embed a tracking pixel when an HTML body is present. Opens
# surface on the returned Message as first_opened_at / open_count.
tracked = identity.send_email(
    to=["user@example.com"],
    subject="Did you see this?",
    body_html="<p>Please review.</p>",
    track_opens=True,
)
print(tracked.first_opened_at, tracked.open_count)
# Caveats: plain-text-only sends aren't tracked;
# open_count is approximate (proxy prefetch inflates it, the per-window
# debounce collapses repeats — so it can read above or below the true
# count); prefer first_opened_at. Pixels can also raise spam scores.

# Iterate inbox (paginated automatically)
for msg in identity.iter_emails():
    print(msg.subject, msg.from_address, msg.is_read)

# Filter by direction: "inbound" or "outbound"
for msg in identity.iter_emails(direction="inbound"):
    print(msg.subject)

# Iterate only unread emails
for msg in identity.iter_unread_emails():
    print(msg.subject)

# Mark messages as read (or unread)
identity.mark_emails_read([msg.id for msg in identity.iter_unread_emails()])
identity.mark_emails_unread(["message-uuid"])

# Get all emails in a thread (thread_id comes from msg.thread_id)
thread = identity.get_thread(msg.thread_id)
for m in thread.messages:
    print(m.subject, m.from_address)

Fetching a single inbound message by id (inkbox.messages.get, below) with an API key marks it read server-side (is_read becomes True); iterating via iter_emails / iter_unread_emails does not, so mark_emails_read stays the way to clear unread in list-only workflows. This server-side is_read (the agent consumed the message via the API) is distinct from first_opened_at (the recipient's mail client loaded the tracking pixel).

Mailbox storage

Every mailbox has a plan storage cap. Sends, reply-alls, and forwards that would push it over the cap are rejected with a 402StorageLimitExceededError:

from inkbox import StorageLimitExceededError

try:
    identity.send_email(to=["user@example.com"], subject="Hi", body_text="…")
except StorageLimitExceededError as err:
    print(err.message)                      # human-readable, includes the limit
    print(err.limit_bytes, err.upgrade_url) # e.g. 2147483648, https://…?tab=billing
    # Free space (reclaim is immediate) or upgrade the plan:
    inkbox.messages.delete(mailbox.email_address, "message-uuid")
    inkbox.threads.delete(mailbox.email_address, "thread-uuid")

Current usage lives on the mailbox (inkbox.mailboxes.list() / .get()):

mailbox = inkbox.mailboxes.get("abc-xyz@inkboxmail.com")
print(mailbox.storage_used_bytes)   # e.g. 1288490188
print(mailbox.storage_limit_bytes)  # e.g. 2147483648 (2 GiB), or None if unresolved

used_gib = mailbox.storage_used_bytes / 1024**3   # caps are binary — GiB, not GB

The caps are binary: 2 GiB is 2 * 1024**3 = 2,147,483,648 bytes. Divide by 1024 and label the result GiB/MiB.

Free plan: a footer is appended to the stored body of outgoing mail, so what you read back with inkbox.messages.get(...) is not byte-for-byte what you sent — a sent_body == fetched_body round-trip assertion will fail on Free plans (a send with no body comes back with the footer as its body). Paid plans are unaffected.


Phone

# Place an outbound call — stream audio over WebSocket
call = identity.place_call(
    to_number="+15551234567",
    client_websocket_url="wss://your-agent.example.com/ws",
)
print(call.status, call.rate_limit.calls_remaining)

# Let Voice AI handle the call using this identity's saved authority.
from inkbox import CallMode, HostedAgentAuthorityMode, VoicemailDetection

hosted_call = identity.place_call(
    to_number="+15551234567",
    mode=CallMode.HOSTED_AGENT,
    reason="Coordinate the appointment and send confirmations.",
    voicemail_detection=VoicemailDetection.DISABLED,
)

# Set the saved default for future inbound and outbound Voice AI calls.
# Changing the saved default requires an admin API key.
identity.set_hosted_agent_authority_mode(HostedAgentAuthorityMode.YOLO)

# Per-call overrides are optional. contact_scoped always downscopes. yolo
# requires an admin credential unless the saved authority is already yolo.
scoped_call = identity.place_call(
    to_number="+15551234567",
    mode=CallMode.HOSTED_AGENT,
    reason="Confirm only this caller's appointment.",
    hosted_agent_authority_mode=HostedAgentAuthorityMode.CONTACT_SCOPED,
)

# List calls (paginated)
calls = identity.list_calls(limit=10, offset=0)
for call in calls:
    print(call.id, call.direction, call.remote_phone_number, call.status)

# Fetch transcript segments for a call
segments = identity.list_transcripts(calls[0].id)
for t in segments:
    print(f"[{t.party}] {t.text}")  # party: "local" or "remote"

# Inspect tool activity for a Voice AI call
activity = identity.list_tool_invocations(calls[0].id, limit=50, offset=0)
for invocation in activity.items:
    print(invocation.tool_name, invocation.status)

# Read transcripts across all recent calls
for call in identity.list_calls(limit=10):
    segments = identity.list_transcripts(call.id)
    if not segments:
        continue
    print(f"\n--- Call {call.id} ({call.direction}) ---")
    for t in segments:
        print(f"  [{t.party:6}] {t.text}")

# Filter to only the remote party's speech
for t in identity.list_transcripts(calls[0].id):
    if t.party == "remote":
        print(t.text)

# Search transcripts across a phone number (org-level)
hits = inkbox.phone_numbers.search_transcripts(phone.id, q="refund", party="remote")
for t in hits:
    print(f"[{t.party}] {t.text}")

Text Messages (SMS/MMS)

Send and receive SMS/MMS through the identity's assigned phone number.

Outbound SMS rules (read before sending):

  • Each sender phone number is rate-limited to 100 recipient sends per rolling 24-hour window. A 3-recipient group message counts as 3 recipient sends. A single accepted send may push usage past the cap; the next capped send returns 429 sender_rate_limited.
  • A new local number takes ~10-15 minutes for the 10DLC campaign to propagate at the carrier — phone_number.sms_status reads pending until then, and sends will return 409 sender_sms_pending.
  • The recipient must have texted START to any number within your organization to opt in. Unknown recipients will fail with 403 recipient_not_opted_in; recipients who later send STOP flip to 403 recipient_opted_out. You can inspect consent state directly via inkbox.sms_opt_ins — see SMS Opt-Ins.
  • Beta: Group MMS and conversation sends are beta. Some carriers may reject group chats or MMS from 10DLC numbers even when the sender is ready and recipients have opted in.

Customer-managed 10DLC brands and campaigns lift the default per-number cap to the carrier-assigned tier.

# Send SMS/MMS. Returns a queued TextMessage; final delivery state
# arrives via any webhook subscription on the sender's phone number
# whose event_types include the text.* lifecycle events.
sent = identity.send_text(to="+15551234567", text="Hello from Inkbox")
print(sent.id, sent.delivery_status)   # SmsDeliveryStatus.QUEUED

# Group MMS uses the same method with a list of recipients.
group = identity.send_text(
    to=["+15551234567", "+15557654321"],
    text="Hello group",
    media_urls=["https://example.com/photo.jpg"],
)
print(group.conversation_id, group.recipients)

# Reply to an existing conversation by UUID. Do not pass "to" with this form.
reply = identity.send_text(
    conversation_id=group.conversation_id,
    text="Following up in the same conversation.",
)

# List text messages
texts = identity.list_texts(limit=20)
for t in texts:
    print(t.remote_phone_number, t.text, t.is_read)

# Filter to unread only
unread = identity.list_texts(is_read=False)

# Get a single text
text = identity.get_text("text-uuid")
print(text.type)  # "sms" or "mms"
if text.media:    # MMS attachments (temporary signed URLs)
    for m in text.media:
        print(m.content_type, m.size, m.url)

# List one-to-one conversation summaries; opt into groups explicitly.
convos = identity.list_text_conversations(limit=20, include_groups=True)
for c in convos:
    print(c.id, c.participants, c.latest_has_media, c.latest_text)

# Get messages in a specific conversation by remote number or conversation UUID.
msgs = identity.get_text_conversation("+15551234567", limit=50)

# Mark as read
identity.mark_text_read("text-uuid")
identity.mark_text_conversation_read("+15551234567")

# Org-level: search and delete
results = inkbox.texts.search(phone.id, q="invoice", limit=20)
inkbox.texts.update(phone.id, "text-uuid", status="deleted")

SMS Opt-Ins

Per-recipient SMS consent state, keyed by (your org, recipient number). The registry is updated automatically when recipients text START / STOP to any of your numbers (source="sms").

Reads — open to admin API keys and user session JWTs.

from inkbox import SmsOptInStatus

# List the org's consent rows (newest-updated first; server caps limit at 200)
rows = inkbox.sms_opt_ins.list(limit=50)
opted_out = inkbox.sms_opt_ins.list(status=SmsOptInStatus.OPTED_OUT)

# Look up one recipient — 404 → InkboxAPIError if no row exists
row = inkbox.sms_opt_ins.get("+15551234567")
print(row.status, row.source, row.opted_in_at, row.opted_out_at)

Writes — admin-only, and only if your org runs its own active, customer-managed 10DLC campaign. Orgs on the Inkbox-default campaign share consent state and get a 409 customer_campaign_required on write attempts. Writes record an audit event with source="api".

# Record consent captured outside of STOP/START (signup form, paper waiver, etc.)
inkbox.sms_opt_ins.opt_in("+15551234567")

# Honor an opt-out collected outside of inbound STOP
inkbox.sms_opt_ins.opt_out("+15551234567")

iMessage

Chat with humans over the shared iMessage router or a dedicated iMessage number. iMessage is opt-in per identity (imessage_enabled). Shared and dedicated_inbound service require the human to message first; dedicated_outbound numbers may start new conversations, subject to consent, contact-rule, and rate-limit checks.

from inkbox import IMessageSendStyle

# Shared service: opt an identity in at create time or later.
identity = inkbox.create_identity("my-agent", imessage_enabled=True)

# Resolve the router number at runtime — never hardcode it.
router = inkbox.imessages.get_triage_number()
print(router.number, router.connect_command)  # e.g. 'connect @my-agent'

# List every dedicated number owned by the organization, attached or not.
numbers = inkbox.imessages.list_numbers()
for number in numbers:
    print(number.number, number.type, number.agent_handle)

# Claim an unattached organization-owned number. Keep the caller-generated
# key stable if the request's outcome is ambiguous and you retry it.
number = inkbox.imessages.claim_number(
    type="dedicated_outbound",
    idempotency_key="claim-outbound-agent-2026-07-18",
)
print(number.can_start_conversations)  # True

# Claim and attach atomically while creating an identity.
outbound_identity = inkbox.create_identity(
    "outbound-agent",
    imessage_enabled=True,
    imessage_number_type="dedicated_outbound",
)
print(outbound_identity.imessage_number.number)

# Existing identities can atomically claim/swap a new number, attach an already
# owned number by UUID, or move back to the shared service with explicit None.
identity.update(
    imessage_number_type="dedicated_inbound",
    idempotency_key="swap-my-agent-inbound-2026-07-18",
)
identity.update(imessage_number_id=number.id)
identity.update(imessage_number_id=None)

# Once a human has connected and messaged, read and reply.
convos = identity.list_imessage_conversations(limit=20)
msgs = identity.list_imessages(conversation_id=convos[0].id)
identity.send_imessage(
    conversation_id=convos[0].id,
    text="On it — give me two minutes.",
)

# Dedicated outbound only: create or reuse an exact-participant group. Keep the
# returned conversation_id and use it for later replies. A best-known set that
# matches multiple conversations returns 409 instead of choosing one.
group = outbound_identity.send_imessage(
    to=["+15551234567", "+15557654321"],
    text="Welcome to the group!",
    media_urls=["https://example.com/group-photo.jpg"],
    send_style=IMessageSendStyle.CONFETTI,
)
outbound_identity.send_imessage(
    conversation_id=group.conversation_id,
    text="Following up in the same conversation.",
    media_urls=["https://example.com/follow-up.jpg"],
    send_style=IMessageSendStyle.LASERS,
)
group_convos = outbound_identity.list_imessage_conversations(include_groups=True)
group_msgs = outbound_identity.list_imessages(include_groups=True)
print(group.is_group, group.participants, group.recipients)
# group_creation_status is creating, not_created, or ready. A rejected initial
# creation leaves this same local conversation at not_created; send again with
# its conversation_id to retry. A successful retry binds the remote thread and
# changes the status to ready.
print(group_convos[0].group_creation_status)
# Groups accept the same 13 IMessageSendStyle values as one-to-one sends on
# both creation and conversation_id replies, with or without the media URL.

# Who is currently connected? (Disconnected conversations stay readable
# with assignment_status == "released"; sends into them return 409.)
connections = identity.list_imessage_assignments()

# Tapbacks target inbound one-to-one or group messages by message_id. The seven
# named reactions include "eyes" ("custom" is rejected locally on send), and a
# new tapback replaces your previous one on the same message part. Group read
# receipts and typing indicators remain unsupported and return 409.
identity.send_imessage_reaction(message_id=msgs[0].id, reaction="like")

# Read receipts, typing indicator, media.
identity.mark_imessage_conversation_read(convos[0].id)
identity.send_imessage_typing(convos[0].id)
upload = identity.upload_imessage_media(
    content=open("chart.png", "rb").read(),
    filename="chart.png",
    content_type="image/png",
)
identity.send_imessage(conversation_id=convos[0].id, media_urls=[upload.media_url])

# Per-identity allow/block rules, interpreted via imessage_filter_mode.
inkbox.imessage_contact_rules.create(
    "my-agent", action="block", match_target="+15555550999",
)

Claiming can raise DedicatedIMessageNumberQuotaExceededError (inspect number_type, limit, current, and upgrade_url), DedicatedIMessageNumberInventoryPendingError (inspect retry_after_seconds), or IdempotencyKeyReusedError when a key is reused with a different request.

Inbound messages, tapbacks, and outbound delivery status arrive via identity-owned webhook subscriptions — see Webhooks for the five imessage.* event types.


Agent-to-Agent (A2A)

With an admin-scoped API key, create and manage an invitation that connects an external agent to a fixed bundle of peers:

invite = inkbox.a2a_invitations.create(
    ["support", "billing"], recipient_email="customer@example.test"
)
page = inkbox.a2a_invitations.list(status="pending")
inkbox.a2a_invitations.revoke(invite.id)

# No API key is required to review an invitation before signup or acceptance:
preview = Inkbox.preview_a2a_invitation(os.environ["INKBOX_A2A_INVITATION"])

# With a claimed agent-scoped key:
inkbox.a2a_invitations.accept(os.environ["INKBOX_A2A_INVITATION"])

An unbound create returns invitation_token, invitation_url, and agent_handoff_prompt when available. accept() and signup accept either the exact-origin share URL or a raw token; extract_a2a_invitation_token() is exported for local normalization. Only the raw token is sent to the API. A recipient-email-bound create emails the recipient and omits capability fields. Raw and extracted tokens must match a2ai_ followed by 43 URL-safe characters. Share links require HTTPS, except for configured localhost/127.0.0.1 URLs.

identity = inkbox.get_identity("coordinator")

public_agents = inkbox.a2a.public_directory(q="research", limit=25)
organization_agents = inkbox.a2a.organization_directory(q="support")
for item in public_agents.items:
    print(item.card.name, item.card_url, item.visibility)

identity.a2a_set_publicly_discoverable(True)  # admin API key required
identity.a2a_set_allow_public_egress(True)

# Omit direction for the receiver inbox. Use "outbound" for requested work
# or "both" for the complete identity-scoped history.
page = identity.a2a_tasks(
    direction="both",
    requester_handle="coordinator",
    worker_handle="researcher",
    state="working",
    q="quarterly report",
    since="2026-07-01T00:00:00Z",
    limit=25,
)
if page.next_cursor:
    next_page = identity.a2a_tasks(
        direction="both",
        requester_handle="coordinator",
        worker_handle="researcher",
        state="working",
        q="quarterly report",
        since="2026-07-01T00:00:00Z",
        cursor=page.next_cursor,
        limit=25,
    )

# Iterators preserve every filter while following opaque cursors.
for message in identity.iter_a2a_messages(
    direction="outbound",
    worker_handle="researcher",
    role="agent",
    q="revenue",
):
    print(message.task_id, message.task_state, message.parts)

# The outbound alias is convenient when only requested work is needed.
sent = identity.a2a_sent_tasks(worker_handle="researcher")

# Context caller/target stays in original-open orientation. Each nested task
# carries its own caller and target, so both directions can run concurrently.
for context in identity.a2a_contexts(direction="both").items:
    print(context.name, context.id)

renamed = identity.a2a_update_context(
    "context-uuid",
    name="Quarterly Research Review",
)

Task keyword filtering returns tasks containing a matching message. Message filtering returns the individual matching messages with task, context, requester, and worker provenance. Search covers string and numeric content values from text and data parts, excludes metadata, and is newest-first rather than relevance-ranked. role is the message author (caller or agent), independent of task direction. Task detail exposes message history and current state.

Directory methods support q, cursor, and limit; iterator variants follow all pages. Receiver enablement, public egress, and advertised skills accept the identity's agent-scoped key. Public discoverability, filter-mode, and contact-rule create/update/delete operations require an admin API key. Use a2a_reset_skills() to restore default skills.

New contexts immediately expose the persisted name New A2A Session. That exact default may be replaced asynchronously with a short name based on the first task message. Either participant can rename the shared context at any time; a non-default name is not replaced by automatic naming. Applications should display the returned value as-is. Context-level caller and target always identify the original opener and recipient. Nested task participants are authoritative for each task's direction, and multiple tasks can run concurrently in either direction.

The standard client reuses the existing context_id option. Supplying a context without a task starts a sibling task; supplying task_id continues that specific task:

client = identity.a2a_client()
target = client.fetch_card("https://example.test/a2a/researcher/card")
result = client.send(
    target,
    text="Review the updated findings",
    context_id="context-uuid",
)

Cross-endpoint context reuse is supported between Inkbox identities. External A2A services may define different context reuse behavior.

Rule directions are inbound, outbound, or both. Same-organization and public discovery may imply admission; private cross-organization calls must pass the requester's outbound policy and the worker's inbound policy. both applies in either role, and explicit blocks always win.

The standard client authenticates Agent Card retrieval on the configured Inkbox origin. It never sends the Inkbox API key to external card or RPC origins. An explicit external credential is sent only to a same-origin RPC URL.

Credentials

Access credentials stored in the vault through the agent-facing credentials surface. The vault must be unlocked first.

# Unlock the vault (once per session)
inkbox.vault.unlock("my-Vault-key-01!")

identity = inkbox.get_identity("my-agent")

# Discovery — list credentials this identity has access to
for login in identity.credentials.list_logins():
    print(login.name, login.payload.username)

for key in identity.credentials.list_api_keys():
    print(key.name, key.payload.access_key)

# Access by UUID — returns the typed payload directly
login   = identity.credentials.get_login("secret-uuid")      # → LoginPayload
api_key = identity.credentials.get_api_key("secret-uuid")    # → APIKeyPayload
ssh_key = identity.credentials.get_ssh_key("secret-uuid")    # → SSHKeyPayload

# Generic access
secret = identity.credentials.get("secret-uuid")             # → DecryptedVaultSecret

Vault Management

Manage the encrypted vault at the org level. Access via inkbox.vault.

# Get vault metadata (key counts, secret counts)
info = inkbox.vault.info()
print(info.secret_count, info.key_count)

# Initialize a new vault (creates primary key + recovery keys)
result = inkbox.vault.initialize("my-Vault-key-01!")
for recovery_key in result.recovery_keys:
    print(recovery_key.recovery_code)  # save these immediately

# Rotate the vault password
inkbox.vault.update_key("new-Vault-key-02!", current_vault_key="my-Vault-key-01!")

# Rotate using a recovery code (if primary key is lost)
inkbox.vault.update_key("new-Vault-key-02!", recovery_code="recovery-code-here")

# List vault keys
keys = inkbox.vault.list_keys()                         # all keys
primary_keys = inkbox.vault.list_keys(key_type="PRIMARY")
recovery_keys = inkbox.vault.list_keys(key_type="RECOVERY")

# List secrets (metadata only — no encrypted payloads)
secrets = inkbox.vault.list_secrets()
logins  = inkbox.vault.list_secrets(secret_type="login")

# Delete a secret
inkbox.vault.delete_secret("secret-uuid")

# Unlock the vault for decryption (returns an UnlockedVault)
unlocked = inkbox.vault.unlock("my-Vault-key-01!")
secret = unlocked.get_secret("secret-uuid")
print(secret.name, secret.payload)

Access control

Control which identities can access which secrets.

# List access rules for a secret
rules = inkbox.vault.list_access_rules("secret-uuid")
for rule in rules:
    print(rule.identity_id)

# Grant an identity access to a secret
inkbox.vault.grant_access("secret-uuid", "identity-uuid")

# Revoke access
inkbox.vault.revoke_access("secret-uuid", "identity-uuid")

Identity Secret Management

Manage vault secrets scoped to a specific identity. These methods create secrets and automatically grant the identity access.

from inkbox.vault.models import LoginPayload, APIKeyPayload

identity = inkbox.get_identity("my-agent")

# Create a secret and auto-grant this identity access
secret = identity.create_secret(
    name="CRM Login",
    payload=LoginPayload(username="bot@crm.com", password="s3cret"),
    description="CRM service account",
)

# Fetch and decrypt a secret
decrypted = identity.get_secret(secret.id)
print(decrypted.payload.username)

# Delete a secret
identity.delete_secret(secret.id)

# Revoke this identity's access (without deleting the secret)
identity.revoke_credential_access(secret.id)

TOTP (one-time passwords)

Add, remove, and generate TOTP codes for login secrets.

# Add TOTP to a login secret (accepts otpauth:// URI or TOTPConfig)
identity.set_totp(secret.id, "otpauth://totp/Example:user?secret=JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP&issuer=Example")

# Generate the current TOTP code
code = identity.get_totp_code(secret.id)
print(code.code, code.expires_in)

# Remove TOTP from a secret
identity.remove_totp(secret.id)

Org-level Messages and Threads

Access messages and threads directly without going through an identity. Useful for org-wide operations.

# List messages for a mailbox (paginated automatically)
for msg in inkbox.messages.list("abc@inkboxmail.com"):
    print(msg.subject)

# Get a single message with full body. Fetching an *inbound* message with
# an API key marks it read server-side (is_read -> True); list, thread, and
# attachment routes do not. Use mark_read for list-only workflows.
detail = inkbox.messages.get("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid")
print(detail.body_text)

# Send a message from a mailbox
inkbox.messages.send(
    "abc@inkboxmail.com",
    to=["user@example.com"],
    subject="Hello",
    body_text="Hi there!",
)

# Update message flags
inkbox.messages.update_flags("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid", is_read=True)
inkbox.messages.mark_read("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid")
inkbox.messages.mark_unread("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid")
inkbox.messages.star("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid")
inkbox.messages.unstar("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid")

# Delete a message
inkbox.messages.delete("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid")

# Get a temporary signed URL for an attachment
attachment = inkbox.messages.get_attachment("abc@inkboxmail.com", "message-uuid", "report.pdf")
print(attachment["url"])

# List threads (paginated automatically)
for thread in inkbox.threads.list("abc@inkboxmail.com"):
    print(thread.subject, thread.message_count)

# Get a thread with all messages
thread = inkbox.threads.get("abc@inkboxmail.com", "thread-uuid")

# Delete a thread
inkbox.threads.delete("abc@inkboxmail.com", "thread-uuid")

Org-level Calls

Calls are identity-scoped. Access them via inkbox.calls; transcripts are folded onto the same resource as inkbox.calls.transcripts(call_id).

# List calls (agent-scoped keys resolve their own identity; admin/JWT
# keys must pass agent_identity_id).
calls = inkbox.calls.list(limit=10)
for call in calls:
    print(call.id, call.direction, call.status, call.origin)

# List calls for a specific identity (admin/JWT)
scoped = inkbox.calls.list(agent_identity_id="identity-uuid", limit=10)

# Get a single call
call = inkbox.calls.get("call-uuid")

# Place an outbound call from a dedicated number
placed = inkbox.calls.place(
    from_number="+18335794607",
    to_number="+15551234567",
    client_websocket_url="wss://example.com/ws",
)

# Place an outbound call over the shared iMessage-number pool
from inkbox import CallOrigin
shared = inkbox.calls.place(
    to_number="+15551234567",
    origination=CallOrigin.SHARED_IMESSAGE_NUMBER,
    agent_identity_id="identity-uuid",
)

# List transcript segments for a call
segments = inkbox.calls.transcripts("call-uuid")
for t in segments:
    print(f"[{t.party}] {t.text}")

Incoming-call routing

from inkbox import IncomingCallAction

# Read the current incoming-call config
config = inkbox.incoming_call_action.get()

# Route incoming calls to a webhook
inkbox.incoming_call_action.set(
    incoming_call_action=IncomingCallAction.WEBHOOK,
    incoming_call_webhook_url="https://your-agent.example.com/incoming-call",
)

Org-level Mailboxes

Mailboxes are provisioned atomically by inkbox.create_identity(...) and removed by identity.delete() (cascade). The inkbox.mailboxes surface is read + update + search only.

# List all mailboxes in the organisation
mailboxes = inkbox.mailboxes.list()

# Get a specific mailbox
mailbox = inkbox.mailboxes.get("abc-xyz@inkboxmail.com")
print(mailbox.email_address)
print(mailbox.sending_domain)        # bare domain the mailbox sends from
print(mailbox.agent_identity_id)     # non-null for live customer mailboxes (1:1 invariant)
print(mailbox.storage_used_bytes)    # bytes currently stored
print(mailbox.storage_limit_bytes)   # plan cap in bytes (binary GiB), or None

# Filter mode now lives on the agent identity — set it via
# identity.update(mail_filter_mode=...). display_name likewise moved to
# the identity; the mailbox PATCH endpoint hard-rejects display_name
# with a 422. To attach a webhook receiver, see "Webhooks" below.
inkbox.get_identity("support-agent").update(mail_filter_mode="whitelist")  # admin-scoped key only
# (deprecated) inkbox.mailboxes.update(mailbox.email_address, filter_mode="whitelist")

# Full-text search across messages in a mailbox
results = inkbox.mailboxes.search(mailbox.email_address, q="invoice", limit=20)
for msg in results:
    print(msg.subject, msg.from_address)

# To remove a mailbox, delete its owning identity (cascades to the
# linked mailbox AND tunnel; revokes scoped API keys):
inkbox.get_identity("support-agent").delete()

Custom Sending Domains

If your org has registered custom sending domains in the console, list them and (admin-only) set the org default. New mailboxes inherit the org default unless you pass sending_domain to create_identity. Domain registration, DNS records, verification, DKIM rotation, and deletion stay in the console.

from inkbox import SendingDomainStatus

# List custom sending domains for the org (optionally filter by status)
verified = inkbox.domains.list(status=SendingDomainStatus.VERIFIED)
for d in verified:
    print(d.id, d.domain, d.status, d.is_default)

# Set the org default — admin-scoped API key only.
# Returns the bare new default domain name (or None when reverted to platform).
new_default = inkbox.domains.set_default("mail.acme.com")

# Pass the platform domain (e.g. "inkboxmail.com" in prod) to revert.
inkbox.domains.set_default("inkboxmail.com")  # -> None

Mail clients (IMAP/SMTP)

An Inkbox inbox can also be attached to a regular mail client (Thunderbird, Apple Mail, mutt, …) with the API key you already have. There is no separate credential to create and no SDK call involved — the gateway speaks IMAP and SMTP directly.

Setting Value
IMAP host imap.inkboxmail.com
IMAP port 993 (IMAPS / implicit TLS)
SMTP host smtp.inkboxmail.com
SMTP port 465 (SMTPS / implicit TLS) or 587 (STARTTLS)
Username the inbox address (e.g. sales-bot@inkboxmail.com)
Password an identity-scoped API key (ApiKey_...)

The password is an agent-scoped API key — the same key an identity-scoped Inkbox(...) client authenticates with. Mint one with inkbox.api_keys.create(scoped_identity_id=...). Admin-scoped keys are rejected: one key maps to exactly one mailbox. Revoking the key revokes mail-client access.

Two constraints that bite in practice:

  • From must be the authenticated inbox address, and exactly one address. Aliases and "send as" identities are rejected.
  • On the Free plan, signed/encrypted mail (S/MIME, PGP) cannot be sent over SMTP. The required footer can't be injected without breaking the signature, so the send is refused. Send unsigned, or upgrade the plan.

If your client saves its own copy of sent messages, leave that setting on: Inkbox recognizes the copy as the message it already stored, so you get one Sent entry, charged against your storage cap once.

Full setup walkthrough: https://inkbox.ai/docs/capabilities/email/mail-clients


Org-level Phone Numbers

Read, search, and release phone numbers org-wide via inkbox.phone_numbers. Provisioning still goes through an identity — pass agent_handle so the new number is bound to it from the start.

# List all phone numbers in the organisation
numbers = inkbox.phone_numbers.list()

# Get a specific phone number by ID
number = inkbox.phone_numbers.get("phone-number-uuid")

# Provision a new number
number = inkbox.phone_numbers.provision(agent_handle="sales-bot")  # local by default
in_ny  = inkbox.phone_numbers.provision(agent_handle="sales-bot", state="NY")

# Update incoming call behaviour
inkbox.phone_numbers.update(
    number.id,
    incoming_call_action="webhook",
    incoming_call_webhook_url="https://example.com/calls",
)
inkbox.phone_numbers.update(
    number.id,
    incoming_call_action="auto_accept",
    client_websocket_url="wss://example.com/ws",
)

# Full-text search across transcripts
hits = inkbox.phone_numbers.search_transcripts(number.id, q="refund", party="remote")
for t in hits:
    print(f"[{t.party}] {t.text}")

# Release a number
inkbox.phone_numbers.release(number.id)

Tunnels

Bring a local Python process online at a public https://{name}.inkboxwire.com URL via outbound HTTP/2. No inbound port to open, no static IP needed. POSIX only.

with Inkbox(api_key="ApiKey_...") as inkbox:
    # Forward to a local HTTP server (edge mode — Inkbox terminates TLS)
    listener = inkbox.tunnels.connect(
        name="my-app",
        forward_to="http://127.0.0.1:8080",
    )
    print(listener.public_url)        # https://my-app.inkboxwire.com
    print(listener.status)            # idle, connecting, connected, ...
    print(listener.is_connected)      # local runtime liveness
    print(listener.last_connected_at) # aware UTC datetime, or None
    listener.wait()                   # blocks until close()/Ctrl-C

    # Or forward to an in-process ASGI app (FastAPI / Starlette / yours)
    listener = inkbox.tunnels.connect(name="my-app", forward_to=fastapi_app)

    # Passthrough TLS — tls_mode is fixed at identity-create time:
    inkbox.create_identity("my-app-pt", tunnel={"tls_mode": "passthrough"})
    listener = inkbox.tunnels.connect(
        name="my-app-pt",
        forward_to="http://127.0.0.1:8080",
    )

Async variant (serve_forever() / aclose()) is available for callers already inside an event loop. Pick one pair; don't mix wait/close with the async APIs.

The listener retries transient connect, HELLO, transport, and PING failures with bounded establishment and exponential backoff. status is one of idle, connecting, connected, reconnecting, closed, or superseded; last_connected_at retains the latest successful connection time while the runtime reconnects. These properties describe this local listener. The listener.tunnel object is the bootstrap resource snapshot; fetch the tunnel again when you need current control-plane fields. Authentication rejection and takeover remain terminal and surface from wait() / serve_forever(). Synchronous close() raises TimeoutError if the runtime thread does not stop within 30 seconds; avoid calling it from a finally block if that exception would mask another error.

Tunnels are provisioned atomically by inkbox.create_identity(...); there is no standalone create / delete / restore / rotate_secret surface. Read + edit on the resource:

inkbox.tunnels.list()
inkbox.tunnels.get("tunnel-uuid")
inkbox.tunnels.update("tunnel-uuid", metadata={"team": "gtm"})
# Passthrough only:
inkbox.tunnels.sign_csr("tunnel-uuid", csr_pem=csr_bytes)

Data-plane authentication uses the same api_key the Inkbox client was constructed with — admin-scoped or identity-scoped (matching the tunnel's identity). Mint a per-agent scoped key via inkbox.api_keys.create(scoped_identity_id=...). There is no per-tunnel connect secret to rotate. State (passthrough cert/key, cached tunnel id) lives under ~/.inkbox/tunnels/{name}/; treat it like an SSH key dir. forward_to is loopback-only by default; pass allow_remote_forwarding=True after reviewing the SSRF tradeoff.


Webhooks

Webhook delivery uses a dedicated subscription resource. Each subscription names exactly one owner (a mailbox, a phone number, or an agent identity for iMessage), one HTTPS destination URL, and a non-empty subset of the catalog's event types. Multiple subscriptions on the same owner fan out independently.

The one exception is phone.incoming_call, which is a synchronous control-plane callback (the response body decides whether Inkbox answers). That URL still lives on the phone-number resource as incoming_call_webhook_url.

Subscribing to mail, text, or iMessage events

# Mail subscription: pick the message.* events you want.
inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.create(
    mailbox_id=mailbox.id,
    url="https://example.com/hook",
    event_types=["message.received", "message.bounced"],
)

# Text subscription: pick the text.* events you want.
inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.create(
    phone_number_id=number.id,
    url="https://example.com/texts",
    event_types=[
        "text.received",
        "text.sent",
        "text.delivered",
        "text.delivery_failed",
        "text.delivery_unconfirmed",
    ],
)

# iMessage subscription: owned by the agent identity (the shared
# pool lines aren't org resources).
inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.create(
    agent_identity_id=identity.id,
    url="https://example.com/imessage",
    event_types=[
        "imessage.received",
        "imessage.reaction_received",
        "imessage.sent",
        "imessage.delivered",
        "imessage.delivery_failed",
    ],
)

# List, update, remove.
subs = inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.list(mailbox_id=mailbox.id)
inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.update(subs[0].id, url="https://new/hook")
inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.delete(subs[0].id)

Available event types:

Channel event_type values
Mail message.received, message.sent, message.forwarded, message.delivered, message.bounced, message.failed
Phone text text.received, text.sent, text.delivered, text.delivery_failed, text.delivery_unconfirmed
iMessage imessage.received, imessage.reaction_received, imessage.sent, imessage.delivered, imessage.delivery_failed

Server-side validation: exactly one of mailbox_id / phone_number_id / agent_identity_id must be set; event_types must be non-empty and distinct; every event type must belong to the owner's channel (mailbox -> message.*, phone number -> text.*, agent identity -> imessage.*). On create the SDK mirrors the structural checks (XOR owner, non-empty, distinct, no phone.incoming_call) plus the message. / text. / imessage. prefix check, so most shape mistakes surface as ValueError before the request leaves the client. The server remains authoritative for the exact event-name enum, so a typo with a valid prefix (e.g. message.received_typo) passes the SDK's check and is rejected as 422 by the server. On update the SDK also rejects mixed event families. Owner compatibility remains server-validated because the SDK doesn't know the owner FK from a subscription ID alone.

Conversation context

Opt a subscription into per-class conversation history on received events (message.received, text.received, imessage.received) by passing context_config. Each class (email, texts, calls) takes a count mode (last N items, 1..50) or a window mode (last H hours, 1..168); omit a class to leave it unconfigured. Conversation context is not supported for A2A subscriptions.

inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.create(
    mailbox_id=mailbox.id,
    url="https://example.com/hook",
    event_types=["message.received"],
    context_config={
        "email": {"mode": "count", "count": 10},
        "texts": {"mode": "window", "hours": 24},
    },
)

# update() is tri-state: omit context_config to leave it unchanged, pass a
# dict to replace it, or pass None to clear it.
inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.update(sub.id, context_config=None)

Received-event payloads then carry an optional data["context"] keyed by class. Optional fields are omitted when empty (never null) — read with .get(...). A skipped class ships items: [] plus a skipped reason; call transcript entries are either turns or an abridgment marker, discriminated on "marker" in entry:

# payload is a cast MailWebhookPayload / TextWebhookPayload / ... (see below)
context = payload["data"].get("context")
if context:
    email = context.get("email")
    if email:
        if email.get("skipped"):
            logger.info("no email context: %s", email["skipped"])
        for item in email["items"]:
            logger.info("%s %s", item["direction"], item.get("subject"))
    calls = context.get("calls")
    if calls:
        for call in calls["items"]:
            for entry in call["transcript"]:
                if "marker" in entry:
                    logger.info("… %s turns abridged", entry["omitted_turns"])
                else:
                    logger.info("%s: %s", entry.get("party"), entry.get("text"))

The config types (WebhookContextConfig, WebhookContextClassConfig) and the payload wire types (WebhookContextWire, WebhookContextBlockWire, WebhookTranscriptEntryWire, …) are exported from inkbox.

Incoming-call webhooks (still per-number)

# Route incoming calls to a webhook. The response body controls call routing.
inkbox.phone_numbers.update(
    number.id,
    incoming_call_action="webhook",
    incoming_call_webhook_url="https://example.com/calls",
)

Wire shapes

Every mail and text payload uses the standard {event_type, timestamp, data} envelope. data["contacts"] (mail and text) and data["agent_identities"] are always present, possibly empty. agent_identities mirrors contacts but matches active agent identities in the same org. On mail, each list entry carries a bucket: "from" | "to" | "cc" | "bcc" plus address; receivers should pair to the source field by (bucket, address). data["message"]["bcc_addresses"] is populated only on outbound events. Every resolved contact carries active memory text, newest first, in memories; use match.get("memories", []) for replayed payloads that predate contact memories. This is separate from the optional conversation context.

name is None when the contact has no name on file -- a contact created automatically from an inbound message has an id and memories before anyone gives it a name. It never falls back to the phone number or email address, so guard it before addressing someone by name.

On inbound message.received, data["message"] carries the plain-text body: the whole message when it fits the size cap, otherwise a prefix with body_truncated: true and body_state: "truncated" (else "complete"). When truncated, fetch the full message by id: inkbox.messages.get(message["email_address"], message["id"]). These fields are present-with-null on non-received events, and absent on payloads predating the feature — read with .get(...).

Phone-text payloads carry several fields for group sends:

  • text_message["recipients"] -- None on inbound, a one-element list on outbound 1:1, multiple entries on group outbound.
  • text_message["remote_phone_number"] -- None on group outbound (the per-recipient state is in recipients[]).
  • data["recipient_phone_number"] -- set on outbound group lifecycle events, names the recipient the event is about. None on inbound and on 1:1 outbound.

The inbound-call payload is flat -- no envelope -- and carries contacts: list[WebhookContact] and agent_identities: list[WebhookAgentIdentity] at the top level.

Receiving webhooks (typed)

The SDK exports TypedDict wire shapes for every payload. Pair verify_webhook with cast(TextWebhookPayload, json.loads(body)) and discriminate on event_type:

import json
from typing import cast

from inkbox import (
    MailWebhookPayload,
    PhoneIncomingCallWebhookPayload,
    TextWebhookPayload,
    verify_webhook,
)

# FastAPI
@app.post("/hooks/mail")
async def mail_hook(request: Request):
    raw_body = await request.body()
    if not verify_webhook(payload=raw_body, headers=request.headers, secret="whsec_..."):
        raise HTTPException(status_code=403)
    payload = cast(MailWebhookPayload, json.loads(raw_body))
    for match in payload["data"]["contacts"]:
        logger.info(
            "%s %s -> %s (%s)",
            match["bucket"], match["address"], match["name"], match["id"],
        )

@app.post("/hooks/text")
async def text_hook(request: Request):
    raw_body = await request.body()
    if not verify_webhook(payload=raw_body, headers=request.headers, secret="whsec_..."):
        raise HTTPException(status_code=403)
    payload = cast(TextWebhookPayload, json.loads(raw_body))
    match payload["event_type"]:
        case "text.delivery_failed":
            msg = payload["data"]["text_message"]
            recipient = payload["data"]["recipient_phone_number"] or msg["remote_phone_number"]
            logger.error(
                "SMS to %s failed: %s (%s)",
                recipient, msg["error_code"], msg["error_detail"],
            )
        case "text.delivered":
            # delivery_status, sent_at, delivered_at are all populated.
            ...
        case "text.received":
            for contact in payload["data"]["contacts"]:
                logger.info("inbound from known contact %s", contact["id"])
            for agent in payload["data"]["agent_identities"]:
                logger.info("inbound from agent identity %s", agent["agent_handle"])

Wire shapes are intentionally snake_case (the raw JSON body, not the SDK's parsed dataclasses) so json.loads(body) round-trips into the TypedDict without a transformer. Enum-valued fields like direction, status, and delivery_status are Literal[...] string unions rather than the SDK's StrEnums — json.loads produces bare strings, and Literal unions narrow cleanly under mypy / pyright.


API errors

All REST endpoint failures raised as InkboxAPIError retain the optional Support Agent instructions returned by the API. This also applies to specialized subclasses and remapped identity or tunnel errors; existing exception text and detail remain unchanged.

from inkbox import InkboxAPIError

try:
    inkbox.get_identity("unknown")
except InkboxAPIError as error:
    print(error.detail)
    if error.agent_support:
        print(f"Support: {error.agent_support}")

Whoami

# Check the authenticated caller's identity
info = inkbox.whoami()
print(info.auth_type)        # "api_key" or "jwt"
print(info.organization_id)

# Narrow by auth type
if isinstance(info, inkbox.WhoamiApiKeyResponse):
    print(info.key_id, info.label)
elif isinstance(info, inkbox.WhoamiJwtResponse):
    print(info.email, info.org_role)

Signing Keys

Signing keys are per agent identity. Create/rotate or check status via the identity (or inkbox.signing_keys.create_or_rotate(agent_handle) / get_status(agent_handle)). The plaintext is returned once.

identity = inkbox.get_identity("support-agent")

# Create or rotate this identity's webhook signing key (plaintext returned once)
key = identity.create_signing_key()
print(key.signing_key)  # save this immediately

# Check whether a key is configured
status = identity.get_signing_key_status()
print(status.configured, status.created_at)

# The FIRST webhook subscription for a keyless identity returns its secret once:
created = inkbox.webhooks.subscriptions.create(
    mailbox_id=identity.mailbox.id,
    url="https://example.com/hooks/mail",
    event_types=["message.received"],
)
if created.signing_key is not None:
    print(created.signing_key)  # save this immediately — shown only once

# (deprecated) org-level: inkbox.create_signing_key()

Verifying Webhook Signatures

Use verify_webhook to confirm that an incoming request was sent by Inkbox.

from inkbox import verify_webhook

# FastAPI
@app.post("/hooks/mail")
async def mail_hook(request: Request):
    raw_body = await request.body()
    if not verify_webhook(
        payload=raw_body,
        headers=request.headers,
        secret="whsec_...",
    ):
        raise HTTPException(status_code=403)
    ...

# Flask
@app.post("/hooks/mail")
def mail_hook():
    raw_body = request.get_data()
    if not verify_webhook(
        payload=raw_body,
        headers=request.headers,
        secret="whsec_...",
    ):
        abort(403)
    ...

Examples

Runnable example scripts are available in the examples/python directory:

Script What it demonstrates
register_agent_identity.py Create an identity with a linked mailbox and phone number
agent_send_email.py Send an email and a threaded reply
read_agent_messages.py List messages and threads
create_agent_mailbox.py Create, update, search, and delete a mailbox
create_agent_phone_number.py Provision, update, and release a number
list_agent_phone_numbers.py List all phone numbers in the org
read_agent_calls.py List calls and print transcripts
receive_agent_email_webhook.py Register and delete a mailbox webhook
receive_agent_call_webhook.py Register, update, and delete a phone webhook

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