agent-maillisted

Send and receive templated markdown messages between agents via <agent-root>/inbox/ folders - the file-based channel between peer agents working separate repos on the same machine. Use when asked to message, notify, hand off to, or request something from another agent or repo ("tell the vault agent", "send them a design request", "reply to that message"); when asked whether another agent has answered or anything new arrived; when a session-start notice reports unprocessed inbox messages that need reading, acting on, and resolving; for the closing sweep that buckets remaining messages by what they still owe; and to send to any inbox path. Human email, Slack, and calendar invitations are different systems and are not this.
thefilesareinthecomputer/dotagents · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 72

Install: claude install-skill thefilesareinthecomputer/dotagents

# Agent Mail File-based messaging between independent agents. One write-once markdown file per message, dropped into a peer repo's `<agent-root>/inbox/` (`<agent-root>` ∈ `.claude` / `.agents` / `.cursor`). No daemon, no network. Full design in `SPEC.md`. Scripts live in `scripts/` next to this file. Resolve the path once: `SKILL_DIR="$HOME/.agents/skills/agent-mail"` (or wherever this skill is installed). ## Boot rule - check your own inbox At session start, and whenever the user mentions inbox / mail / peer agents, list unread mail and surface a one-line summary (count + subjects): ``` bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/inbox.sh" --repo . ``` No inbox or no top-level files ⇒ no unread mail. Don't announce empty inboxes repeatedly. `inbox.sh` lists what is there; `sweep.sh` (below) says what is still owed - use the sweep to close out, not the listing. ## Sending ``` bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/send.sh" \ --to-repo /abs/path/to/peer/repo \ --from "<MyName>" --from-repo "$PWD" --to "<PeerName>" \ --subject "short subject" \ --type request|response|handoff|fyi \ [--reply-needed] [--in-reply-to <message-id>] \ [--root .claude|.agents|.cursor] \ --body-file /tmp/body.md ``` Compose the body first (start from `templates/<type>.md` if useful) and pass it with `--body-file`; if omitted, the type template is used as a skeleton. **Handle the guard exit codes - do NOT brute-force past them:** | Exit / token | Meaning | What you do | |---|---|---| | 2 `REPO_NOT_FOUND` | repo