mcp-email-server AGENTS.md

mcp-email-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from Wh1isper/mcp-email-server. It costs 2,504 tokens per session, scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

Project instructions for a Python server that lets AI clients work with email accounts through IMAP and SMTP, the standard protocols for receiving and sending email.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing email behavior, the command-line interface, account settings, web interface, plugins, or related tests.
Why use it?
They give the agent a map of the server, management interface, configuration, security storage, and tests before changes are made.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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 instructions/wh1isper/mcp-email-server/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wh1isper/mcp-email-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 2,504 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,504 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.02504 $0.02504
Opus 5 $0.01252 $0.01252
Sonnet 5 $0.00501 $0.00501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00250 $0.00250

Measured 6d ago against content hash ec5f4642b281, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-email-server 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 6d 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.

AGENTS.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Overview

mcp-email-server is a Python MCP server that connects MCP clients to email accounts through IMAP and SMTP.

Canonical repository:

  • HTTPS: https://github.com/Wh1isper/mcp-email-server
  • SSH: [email protected]:Wh1isper/mcp-email-server.git

Primary repository areas:

  • mcp_email_server/app.py — FastMCP server, resources, tools, and tool visibility.
  • mcp_email_server/cli.py — stdio, SSE, Streamable HTTP, UI, reset, and credential migration commands.
  • mcp_email_server/config.py — TOML settings, environment composition, account models, and persistence.
  • mcp_email_server/keyring_store.py — operating system keyring integration.
  • mcp_email_server/emails/ — IMAP and SMTP behavior and response models.
  • mcp_email_server/ui.py / the replacement Web UI package — the local loopback management adapter and packaged static assets.
  • frontend/ — React/TypeScript management UI source and locked maintainer build.
  • plugins/, .agents/, and .claude-plugin/ — optional Codex/Claude Code plugin packaging, shared local MCP launch metadata, and safe non-secret setup guidance.
  • tests/ — unit, contract, integration, security, and browser-facing tests.
  • docs/ — user documentation published with MkDocs.
  • spec/ — unpublished normative architecture and product contracts kept as flat numbered documents.

Project Conventions

  • Support Python 3.11 and later.
  • Use uv for dependency management and command execution.
  • Follow the existing typed, asynchronous Python style.
  • Prefer explicit types and isinstance checks over dynamic attribute checks.
  • Use Pydantic models for configuration and structured responses.
  • Keep MCP-facing descriptions accurate because clients derive tool schemas from them.
  • Preserve the distinction between persistent TOML settings and the environment-composited runtime view.
  • Treat credential storage, allowlists, attachment paths, and HTTP transport settings as security-sensitive behavior.
  • Do not log, document, or commit real email credentials, API keys, message contents, or tokens.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 6d ago First seen · 189 lines · 2,504 tokens per session scan A ec5f4642b281

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mcp-email-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Wh1isper/mcp-email-server (321 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 2,504 tokens to every session, about $0.0125 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.