thunderbird-email

thunderbird-email is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,880 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for reading and searching email stored locally by Thunderbird, an email application, and for saving reply drafts to an IMAP mail server. It does not send mail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find payment receipts, billing notices, newsletter material, or industry information, and to save—not send—reply drafts.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching mail files and provides a controlled way to place drafted replies in the server's Drafts folder.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find payment receipts, billing notices, newsletter material, or industry information, and to save—not send—reply drafts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs/thunderbird-email
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 ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs --skill thunderbird-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,880 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.
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 $0.00101 $0.02880
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01440
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00288

Measured 9d ago against content hash b82c736a7be3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thunderbird-email 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.

packages/skills/thunderbird/skills/thunderbird-email/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thunderbird Email Skill

Access the user's local Thunderbird mail store. Two capabilities:

  1. Read (mbox) — search and extract emails from the local offline-store mbox files. Does not modify the store or sync IMAP.
  2. Write drafts (IMAP APPEND) — place a drafted reply into the user's Drafts folder by appending it to the IMAP server (see Writing drafts). This is the ONLY write path, and it goes to the server, never the local mbox. The skill does not send mail.

Profile path

Set TBIRD_PROFILE to your Thunderbird profile directory. Defaults vary by OS:

OS Default profile location
Linux (snap) ~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/<profile-id>.default
Linux (apt) ~/.thunderbird/<profile-id>.default-release
macOS ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<profile-id>.default-release
Windows %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\<profile-id>.default-release

Find your profile id by opening Thunderbird → Help → Troubleshooting Information → Profile Folder.

export TBIRD_PROFILE="$HOME/.thunderbird/abcd1234.default-release"

Account map

Each IMAP account lives under $TBIRD_PROFILE/ImapMail/<server-hostname>/. List your servers with:

ls "$TBIRD_PROFILE/ImapMail/"

A typical layout, given an account [email protected] hosted at mail.example.com:

File Purpose
$TBIRD_PROFILE/ImapMail/mail.example.com/INBOX Top-level inbox mbox
$TBIRD_PROFILE/ImapMail/mail.example.com/INBOX.sbd/Sent Sent folder
$TBIRD_PROFILE/ImapMail/mail.example.com/INBOX.sbd/Drafts Drafts
$TBIRD_PROFILE/ImapMail/mail.example.com/INBOX.sbd/<Label> Custom labels (Thunderbird subfolders)

The .sbd suffix is Thunderbird's mail-store-directory convention — INBOX itself is an mbox file, while its subfolders live under INBOX.sbd/.

File ordering

Thunderbird does NOT guarantee a fixed ordering inside mbox files. Different servers/accounts may append at either end depending on IMAP sync direction and history. When in doubt, parse the full file and sort by the Date: header rather than relying on file order.

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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. 9d ago First seen · 309 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A b82c736a7be3

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thunderbird-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository ikenga-hq/ikenga-pkgs (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,880 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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