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Getting Started
Everything you need to go from zero to a working agent inbox in minutes.How do I give my AI agent an email address?
Create an inbox with one API call. No domain setup required to start.
Do AI agents need their own email infrastructure?
Why shared ESP accounts break for autonomous agents and what agent-native email solves.
Can I send email without a custom domain?
Use the shared commune.email domain to get started instantly — add a custom domain later.
Can I connect my agent to my existing Gmail or Outlook?
Use Commune OAuth to connect existing email accounts — your agent reads and sends via the Commune API.
How do I test my agent's email before going live?
Test inboxes, webhook inspection, end-to-end test patterns, and CI/CD integration.
What are Commune's plans and pricing?
Free, Agent Pro, Business, and Enterprise — what’s included in each.
Sending & Composing
Format, attach, sign, and deduplicate your agent’s outbound emails.How do I send HTML emails from my agent?
Inline styles, responsive templates, and why email clients strip your stylesheet.
How do I attach files to agent emails?
Upload-then-send workflow, size limits, and parsing inbound attachments.
How do I set up email signatures?
Consistent agent signatures with AI disclosure, company info, and legal compliance.
How do I prevent duplicate sends?
Idempotency keys, dedup patterns, and loop guards for autonomous agents.
Deliverability
Keep your sender reputation healthy and your emails out of spam.How do I prevent my agent's emails from landing in spam?
DKIM, SPF, DMARC, bounce rates, and how Commune handles authentication automatically.
How do I warm up a new domain?
Ramp from 50 to 5,000 emails/day over 14 days. Commune manages this automatically.
What happens if my agent sends too many emails?
Rate limits, burst detection, and how Commune protects your sender reputation.
How do I send emails in bulk from an agent?
Controlled send loops, warmup limits, and per-send error handling for high-volume agents.
Inbound & Threading
Receive, route, and reply to emails inside your agent — in the same conversation thread.How do I handle email replies in my agent?
Configure webhooks to receive inbound emails, resolve threads, and reply in context.
How does Commune thread emails?
RFC 5322 threading with real SMTP Message-IDs, routing tokens, and subject-line fallback.
How do I extract structured data from emails?
Configure a JSON schema on an inbox to automatically extract fields from every inbound email.
How do I set up per-agent inboxes?
One inbox per agent or campaign for reputation isolation and deterministic reply routing.
How do I route emails between multiple agents?
Triage patterns, internal forwarding, and escalation to humans with full thread context.
Operations
Monitor, audit, and debug your agents in production.How do I monitor what my agents are sending?
Delivery metrics, webhook lifecycle events, alerting, and audit logging patterns.
Security
Protect your agents from adversarial input and authenticate them without human intervention.What is prompt injection via email?
How attackers embed LLM instructions in email bodies, and how Commune detects and scores them.
What is agent authentication?
Ed25519 challenge-response auth lets agents register and authenticate fully autonomously.
How do I add human approval before sending?
Pre-send webhooks, draft queues, confidence thresholds, and escalation rules.
How do I prevent data leakage?
Output sanitization, domain allowlists, content policies, and audit logging.
How do I comply with CAN-SPAM and GDPR?
Legal requirements for AI agent email — unsubscribe headers, consent, data deletion.
What if my agent sends something wrong?
Damage control, incident response playbook, and prevention strategies.
Framework Integrations
Add email capabilities to your agent in the framework you’re already using.Commune MCP Server
Connect any MCP-compatible agent (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf) to Commune via the Model Context Protocol.
Commune on ClawHub
Install Commune as a ClawHub skill to give any OpenClaw agent full email capabilities.
Commune + LangChain
Custom LangChain tools wrapping the Commune SDK for send, receive, and thread management.
Commune + OpenAI Agents SDK
Add Commune as @function_tool in the OpenAI Agents SDK.
Commune + CrewAI
BaseTool subclasses for CrewAI agents — send email, read threads, handle inbound.
Commune + n8n
HTTP Request + Webhook nodes for no-code agent email workflows.