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A local TUI (like Claude, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode or Copilot) that wraps your agent and sends each turn to an email in a nice format.\n\nWhat does it enable? It lets you email your agents. And them email you. So They Keep Working on the tasks you want, and You go and do What You Want. No need to stay at your desk. Be free.\n\nI built this for me, but thought others would find it useful, so I turned it into a product. I want get outside, and away from my desk, but still have the agents work.\n\nThe accidental killer feature: You can CC your team. 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It also resulted in very low…",{"value":83,"source":72,"evidence":84},"Useful async workflow for separating from the desk.",[85,89],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"46632288","Jnr","I have claude code hooks that send local computer notifications when action is required or processing finished. And when I step away from computer, I get those notifications…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"46633594","nico","Nice. Would be great to have this on Slack or Whatsapp",[94,113,120],{"value":95,"source":72,"evidence":96},"Privacy: emails are not end-to-end encrypted and the privacy policy was copied from another product.",[97,101,105,106,110],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"46632729","mzajc","Are the emails end to end encrypted (PGP or S\u002FMIME where you\u002Fyour server don't have the keys) or just in transit (TLS)? That would make the difference between \"we can't look at…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"46633341","bflesch","Good to call out use of semi-technical weasel words. Their privacy policy is far from GDPR compliant. In a legal sense, they do not respect data privacy rights of their customers…",{"id":58,"by":10,"text":59},{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"46631603","derelicta","Considering emails are as private as postcards, I don't know how I could rely on such service to prompt anything even remotely sensitive.",{"id":111,"by":10,"text":112},"46631773","Just like regular email in that sense. We don't do any encryption beyond standard HTTPS and we don't look at the data. It's a paid service, you're not the product.",{"value":114,"source":72,"evidence":115},"Price of $12\u002Fmo seems steep for what it does.",[116,117],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"id":118,"by":10,"text":119},"46631424","It is pretty light. Maybe the pricing is wrong, idk. Early days so just figuring things out. 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Started something in the same area as well that is fully open source: www.runagentos.com",{"comments":34,"answered":37,"key":183},[184,187,188],{"id":185,"text":186},"46632263","Just in that your agent runs on your local machine, has access to your local filesystem, and no code execution happens on our cloud, and that we don't look at or store the…",{"id":58,"text":59},{"id":189,"text":190},"46633342","No they are not E2E, like most email services. 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