mail

mail is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 26 tokens per session (223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for reading and managing Apple Mail through automation. Apple Mail is the email application included with macOS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading emails, identifying senders and dates, checking message content, and moving messages to an archive mailbox or Trash.
Why use it?
It helps an agent inspect messages and handle mailbox actions without manually searching through the inbox.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mail plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Reading emails, identifying senders and dates, checking message content, and moving messages to an archive mailbox or Trash.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/mail
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill mail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mail, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 223 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00223
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00089
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ae167fbdfaef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mail 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 1mo 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.

plugins/mail/skills/mail/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Mail

Apple Mail automation via JXA (osascript -l JavaScript).

Archiving

Mail.app delete() moves messages to Trash, not Archive. There is no archiveMailbox property — find the archive mailbox by name per account.

See archiving.md for account detection, mailbox lookup, and batch archive patterns.

Reading

var app = Application("Mail");
var inbox = app.inbox();
var messages = inbox.messages();

Key properties: subject(), sender(), dateReceived(), content(), mailbox().account().

Notes

  • JXA arrays from Mail may lack .map()/.filter() — use Array.from() or for-loops
  • .whose() selectors fail on child mailbox arrays — use for-loops
  • Launch Mail first if not running: open -g -a "Mail"
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ae167fbdfaef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mail is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.