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The Gmail API alternative for AI agents
A Gmail account plus the Gmail API is the go-to 'give my agent an inbox' hack: free, familiar, and fine for one human-supervised assistant. Productionize an autonomous agent on it and you inherit OAuth restricted-scope review, Pub/Sub watch renewals, and base64url MIME. MailKite (which we build) gives the agent its own scoped address and parsed JSON push. For developers wiring an autonomous email agent.