audit

A guide for using Nylas CLI audit logging, which records command activity with details such as who ran a command, where it came from, when it ran, and related request IDs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize, configure, enable, inspect, filter, summarize, export, or clear Nylas CLI audit logs.
Why use it?
It provides a trace of command use for compliance, debugging, security checks, and tracking commands run by automated tools.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/nylas/cli/audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nylas/cli
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,217 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.04217
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02108
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00843
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00422

Measured yesterday against content hash db4f7c101708, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/audit.md · 706 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 706 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audit Logging Guide

Complete guide to using Nylas CLI's audit logging for compliance, debugging, and tracking command execution across users and AI agents.

Key Feature: Audit logging captures who ran which commands, from what source (terminal, Claude Code, GitHub Actions, etc.), with full Nylas API traceability via request IDs.


Table of Contents


Overview

Audit logging records every CLI command execution with rich metadata for:

  • Compliance - Track who accessed what data and when
  • Debugging - Trace issues back to specific commands and API calls
  • Security - Monitor for unauthorized access patterns
  • AI Agent Tracking - Know when commands were run by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or other AI tools

What Gets Logged

Field Description Example
timestamp When the command was executed 2026-02-05 10:30:00
command The CLI command run email list
args Sanitized command arguments --limit 10
grant_id The Nylas grant (account) used abc123...
invoker Username who ran the command alice, dependabot[bot]
invoker_source Where the command originated claude-code, terminal
status Success or error success
duration How long it took 190ms
request_id Nylas API request ID for tracing req_abc123
http_status HTTP response code 200

Read the full file on GitHub · 706 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 706 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A db4f7c101708

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audit is a command published in the GitHub repository nylas/cli (68 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,217 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.