An agent that can browse and click still gets stuck at "check your email". A temporary inbox with tools the agent can call closes that gap.
Many sign-up flows end with a code or link sent to an inbox. A human would open their mail; an agent has no mailbox of its own, and giving it yours is a bad idea.
Polling in a loop burns tokens and time. The wait step is a single call that blocks until the email arrives, then returns only the extracted code or link, not the whole message.
Anyone can email an address, so anything inside a message is attacker-controlled text. Emailsify returns a cleaned, size-limited, clearly labelled view of mail and never returns raw HTML. Your agent should still treat message content as data, never as instructions.
See the guide on prompt injection through email for the full threat model.
Any MCP-compatible client, such as Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Windsurf and Gemini CLI.
The agent tools (MCP) are part of Pro and Scale. The browser inbox is free.
Yes. It can read a message as a cleaned, truncated text view labelled as untrusted content.