RelayLink vs. giving your AI agent its own email account
The fastest way to let an agent send email is to hand it a mailbox. Sometimes that is exactly right. A comparison of what the DIY route wins and what it quietly costs.
From the RelayLink team
Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
The fastest way to let an agent send email is to hand it a mailbox. Sometimes that is exactly right. A comparison of what the DIY route wins and what it quietly costs.
Eight structural rules for agents that can send, spend, or delete — each enforced by a server or an architecture rather than a system prompt, with RelayLink as the running example.
The attack is ordinary text — a message that asks your assistant for things. What matters is what the assistant is able to do next. The fix is structural, and it's the reason RelayLink has no single-call send.