Mail

What does Mail do?

Reads your recent mail and writes a digest of what needs a reply, the commitments made and the deadlines coming, and saves reply drafts for you to send. It never sends anything.

What it declines

A task like one of these is declined with a reason, and a declined run is free:

• Sending, forwarding, moving, archiving or deleting mail, or marking it read: it changes nothing in the mailbox but the drafts it saves.
• Writing new messages: it drafts replies to mail that came in, to the people who wrote.
• Reading anything on the web, following links in mail, or opening attachments.
• Remembering mail in the workspace: the digest is the run's result and nothing else.

What does a real run of Mail look like?

The input, the result (shortened where it is long), how long it took, what it cost and where it ran. Live runs used public or demo material only; a run marked as from the eval suite is not a live run.

Mail never runs live for this site: a live run reads a real mailbox. The example comes from the agent's eval suite, where the mailbox is a fixture.

{
  "window_hours": 48,
  "as_of": "2026-10-16T18:00:00Z"
}

# Mail digest, 2026-10-16

7 messages in the last 48 hours: 2 need a reply, 2 commitments, 2 deadlines; 2 drafts saved for you to send. Dana needs the seat count by Tuesday for the renewal, and Sam wants an answer today about Wednesday's interview panel.

## Needs a reply

- **Urgent: Sam Okafor**, "Interview panel on Wednesday?": Sam asks whether you can join Wednesday's interview panel and needs an answer today. Draft saved in Drafts.
- **Urgent: Dana Ruiz**, "Renewal quote for 2027": Dana needs the seat count confirmed for the 2027 renewal quote. Draft saved in Drafts.

## Commitments

- You: Send Lee the migration runbook (by 2026-10-19). "Re: Postgres migration"
- Dana Ruiz: Northwind holds the current price of $48 per seat (by 2026-10-31). "Renewal quote for 2027"

## Deadlines

- 2026-10-20: Confirm the seat count to Northwind. From Dana Ruiz, "Renewal quote for 2027"
- 2026-10-30: Pay CloudHost invoice INV-2291. From CloudHost Billing, "Invoice INV-2291 is due October 30"
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Read 7 messages in full of 7 messages in [email removed]. Nothing was sent, moved or marked read.

What does Mail cost?

Mail costs 500 ContextStream credits a run, charged only when the run succeeds; a declined, failed, cancelled or timed-out run costs nothing. Credits come with every plan: Starter is free with 10,000 a month (20 runs of Mail, if spent on nothing else), and Pro is $19 a month with 25,000.

Which tools does Mail work with?

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients: ContextStream's MCP gives them a slipstream tool that finds, runs and follows Mail. It also runs from a terminal or an agent's shell with ss run mail, and from the ContextStream web app.

• Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients: connect ContextStream's MCP once (setup for each editor), then ask your agent to hand the job to Mail.
• A terminal or an agent's shell: ss run mail, installed with ContextStream's command line.
• The web app: the workspace's specialist library, where each run shows its price before it starts.

What access does Mail need?

Mail gets a short-lived token for one workspace, limited to 3 scopes: Reads your mail, Drafts, never sends and Models via ContextStream. It works in one project, and only for that run.

Model agent. A program on ContextStream's model proxy, with a short-lived token that acts for you in one workspace. It is stopped after 5 min. You may schedule it to run on its own.

How do I turn Mail on?

An owner or admin of your ContextStream workspace turns Mail on in the specialist library of the web app. Specialist agents are opening workspace by workspace; if yours is not open yet, the library says so.

1. Sign in to ContextStream: the button below opens the specialist library on Mail.
2. An owner or admin switches Mail on for the workspace.
3. Pick the project it works in, and run it from the library, from your coding agent or with ss run.

How do I call Mail from Claude Code or Codex?

Ask your coding agent to hand the job to Mail, or call it yourself: ss run mail in a terminal, or slipstream(action="run", agent="mail", input={...}) over MCP. A priced run starts only once its price is accepted.

Connect ContextStream's MCP (it also writes each editor's connection):

curl -fsSL https://contextstream.io/scripts/mcp.sh | bash

The daily digest: the last 24 hours of every mailbox, with up to three reply drafts saved. Over MCP:

slipstream(action="run", agent="mail", input={}, accepted_price_credits=500)

In a terminal (curl -fsSL https://contextstream.io/cs/install.sh | sh installs ss):

ss run mail

Over MCP, a call without accepted_price_credits returns the quote first; ss asks on a terminal, and scripts pass --yes.

Input

Related agents

Every Slipstream agent