Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to n24q02m/better-email-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/n24q02m/better-email-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/n24q02m/better-email-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01268 | $0.01268 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00634 | $0.00634 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00254 | $0.00254 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00127 | $0.00127 |
Grade A, and why
better-email-mcp AGENTS.md 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 9d ago.
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.
This is a copy
86% identical to better-notion-mcp AGENTS.md — 73 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md - better-email-mcp
MCP Server for Email (IMAP/SMTP). TypeScript, Node.js >= 24, bun, ESM.
Build / Lint / Test Commands
bun install # Install dependencies
bun run build # tsc --build && esbuild CLI bundle
bun run check # Biome check + tsc --noEmit (CI command)
bun run check:fix # Auto-fix Biome + type check
bun run test # vitest --passWithNoTests
bun run test:watch # vitest watch
bun run test:coverage # vitest --coverage
bun run lint # biome check .
bun run format # biome format --write .
bun run type-check # tsc --noEmit
bun run dev # tsx watch dev server
# Run a single test file
bun vitest run src/tools/helpers/errors.test.ts
# Run a single test by name
bun vitest run -t "test name pattern"
# Mise shortcuts
mise run setup # Full dev environment setup
mise run lint # bun run check
mise run test # bun run test
mise run fix # bun run check:fix
Environment Variables
# Required: email credentials (App Passwords, NOT regular passwords)
[email protected]:abcd-efgh-ijkl-mnop
# Multiple accounts
[email protected]:pass1,[email protected]:pass2
# Custom IMAP host (optional :port, default 993)
[email protected]:password:imap.custom.com:1993
# Local IMAP proxy ("localhost" is accepted as a host)
[email protected]:password:localhost:1993
Code Style
Formatting (Biome)
- Indent: 2 spaces
- Line width: 120
- Quotes: Single quotes
- Semicolons: As needed (omit when possible)
- Trailing commas: None
- Arrow parens: Always
- Bracket spacing: true
- Line endings: LF
Imports
- Type imports use
import type(separate statement) - External packages first, then internal imports (relative paths)
- Node builtins with
node:prefix (node:fs,node:path,node:url) - Always use
.jsextension in import paths (ESM requirement)
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 142 lines · 1,268 tokens per session scan A 7e6d9ed42781
better-email-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository n24q02m/better-email-mcp (34 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,268 tokens to every session, about $0.0063 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to better-notion-mcp AGENTS.md, differing in 73 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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