An Agent Reads My Email

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every morning at five, an agent reads yesterday’s email and writes me a briefing. Most mornings I read the briefing instead of the inbox.

My friend Kyle Reinford just published the pattern he uses - Cloudflare Email Workers catch messages at the edge and file them into R2, so a model never touches his real Gmail. Mine is the same idea from the other end: he guards the front door, I process at home. Apple Mail already syncs my accounts to disk. A script reads the last 24 hours of messages and hands each body to a local model - Qwen3.6-35b-a3b, running in LM Studio on my Mac Studio. No agent harness, no tool loop - just one chat call to localhost per message. All the model gets to do is fill out a tiny form: what is this, does it need me, one-line summary. A renderer turns the day’s forms into a static page. Nothing leaves the house.

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An Agent Reads My Email