Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to TG-Techie/apple-mail-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/TG-Techie/apple-mail-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TG-Techie/apple-mail-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/tg-techie/apple-mail-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tg-techie/apple-mail-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tg-techie/apple-mail-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/tg-techie/apple-mail-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tg-techie/apple-mail-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 | $0.03063 | $0.03063 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01225 | $0.01225 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00613 | $0.00613 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00306 | $0.00306 |
Grade A, and why
apple-mail-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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apple Mail MCP Server
An MCP server bridging Claude and Apple Mail via AppleScript on macOS.
Stack: Python 3.10+, FastMCP, AppleScript (via osascript)
Version: v0.8.1 (gated by ./scripts/check_version_sync.sh)
Test and coverage counts are deliberately not recorded here — they drift with every change and a stale number is worse than none. Get them from make test / make coverage.
Commands
make test # Unit tests (~1s, mocked AppleScript)
make test-integration # Real Mail.app tests (requires test account)
make test-e2e # End-to-end MCP tool tests
make lint # Ruff linting
make format # Ruff formatting
make typecheck # Mypy strict mode
make check-all # All checks (lint, typecheck, test, complexity, version-sync, parity)
make coverage # Coverage report
./scripts/check_complexity.sh # Cyclomatic complexity check
./scripts/check_client_server_parity.sh # Verify all connector methods are exposed
./scripts/check_version_sync.sh # Version consistency across files
Running the server: uv run python -m apple_mail_mcp.server (stdio) or via Claude Desktop config. As a fleet daemon (README, "Running as a fleet daemon"):
uv run mail-serve # Resident daemon under pm2: HTTP on 127.0.0.1:41108 (--port to change)
uv run mail-proxy # What a session launches: stdio proxy to the daemon (APPLE_MAIL_SERVER_URL overrides)
API Surface (25 MCP tools)
Core: list_mailboxes, search_messages, get_messages, update_message Drafts lifecycle (v2 — verb-split): draft_create, draft_update, draft_delete, draft_send Sending: email_send_html (preferred send path; see docs/reference/TOOLS.md) Mailbox CRUD: create_mailbox, update_mailbox (rename + move via IMAP), delete_mailbox (IMAP-only) Attachments & Management: save_attachments, delete_messages Discovery & Rules: list_accounts, list_rules, get_thread, create_rule, update_rule, delete_rule Templates: list_templates, get_template, save_template, delete_template, render_template
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.
- 7d ago Changed · +2 lines · +279 tokens per session 5c2447e5218f
- 24d ago Changed · +46 tokens per session e7454801eae9
- 29d ago Changed · +9 lines · +382 tokens per session d2494dd96133
- 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 2,356 tokens per session scan A b594561859d2
apple-mail-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TG-Techie/apple-mail-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,063 tokens to every session, about $0.0123 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-27.
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