apple-mail

apple-mail is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mitsuhiko/agent-stuff. It costs 45 tokens per session (703 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A macOS mail search and reading tool that works with messages stored by Apple Mail. It can find emails, show their contents, and extract attached files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by sender, recipient, subject, text, date, mailbox, or status; inspect raw email headers and body; and save attachments from a message.
Why use it?
It avoids searching through mail manually when you need a specific message or attachment. It only reads the local mail data, so it does not change your messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search by sender, recipient, subject, text, date, mailbox, or status; inspect raw email headers and body; and save attachments from a message.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/apple-mail
About the project

Agent Stuff is a personal package of reusable skills, extensions, prompt commands, themes, and utilities for the Pi Coding Agent. Its author uses these tools across projects, and the catalogue entries are components from this package that support that workflow.

mitsuhiko/agent-stuff · 3,192 stars · on GitHub

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 mitsuhiko/agent-stuff --skill apple-mail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 703 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 $0.00045 $0.00703
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00281
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00070

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 29b6e85500df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (apple-mail.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/apple-mail/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple Mail Skill

Search, read, and extract attachments from Apple Mail's local storage on macOS.

Tool

apple-mail.sh — a bash script that queries the Apple Mail SQLite envelope index and reads .emlx files from disk. Read-only — it never modifies mail data.

Quick Reference

TOOL=~/Development/agent-stuff/skills/apple-mail/apple-mail.sh

# Search emails
$TOOL search --from "peter@" --subject "dinner" --limit 5
$TOOL search --after 2026-02-01 --has-attachment
$TOOL search --body "invoice" --mailbox "INBOX" --unread
$TOOL search --to "armin@" --before 2025-12-31

# Show message metadata, recipients, attachments, and summary
$TOOL info 783660

# Read the raw RFC822 email (headers + body)
$TOOL read 783660

# Extract attachments to a temp directory (prints the path)
$TOOL attachment 783660                          # all attachments
$TOOL attachment 783660 "Rechnung.pdf"           # specific file

# List all mailboxes with counts
$TOOL mailboxes

Search Options

Flag Description
--from <addr> Sender address substring
--to <addr> Recipient address substring
--subject <text> Subject substring
--body <text> Body/summary text substring
--mailbox <name> Mailbox URL substring (e.g. INBOX, Sent, Trash)
--after <YYYY-MM-DD> Received after date
--before <YYYY-MM-DD> Received before date
--unread Only unread messages
--flagged Only flagged messages
--has-attachment Only messages with attachments
--limit <n> Max results (default: 20)

Output Format

  • search returns pipe-delimited table with header row: id|sender|sender_name|subject|received|status|flagged|mailbox|attachments
  • info returns structured metadata sections
  • read outputs raw RFC822 email to stdout
  • attachment prints the temp directory path to stdout, file listing to stderr

Notes

  • Message IDs are Apple Mail internal ROWIDs (integers), shown in the id column
  • .partial.emlx files contain headers only (body not downloaded); read warns about this
  • Attachments are copied to a temp directory under /tmp/; clean up when done
  • The body search queries the summaries table (Apple Mail's plaintext preview), not the full email body
  • Mailbox URLs are percent-encoded (e.g., %5BGmail%5D = [Gmail], %20 = space)
  • Deleted messages are excluded from search by default

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

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 · 73 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 29b6e85500df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-mail is a skill published in the GitHub repository mitsuhiko/agent-stuff (3,192 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 703 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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