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by wyattjoh

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It would be fantastic if this supported email and calendar providers that weren't Google. Supporting protocols like IMAP or JMAP alongside CalDav would be a fantastic step, as well as open source note-taking apps like Hyprnote would be neat.

by mchusma

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This is cool! A couple of pieces of feedback as I am looking for something in this family of things but haven't found the perfect fit: 1. I have multiple inboxes, and want to have them work on multiple. 2. I would really like to have skills and mcps visible and understandable. Craft Agents does a nice job of segmenting by workspace and making skills and mcps all visible so I can understand what exactly my agent is set up to do (no black boxes). 3. I want scheduled runs. I don't need push, I actually kind of prefer just the reliability of scheduled, but push would be fine too. In particular, I want to: a. After each granola meeting save in obsidian (I did this in Craft Code for example, but I prefer your more built in approach here, this is nice). b. On intervals, check my emails. I want to give it information on who/what is important to me, and ping me. E.g. billing on Anthropic failed, ping me. c. I also want it to email back and forth to schedule with approved categories of things on request. Just get it on my calendar (share calendly, send times, etc). d. I want junk etc archived. e. For important things, update my knowledge graph (ignore spam, etc). 4. Tying into a to-do list that actually updates based on priorities, and suggests auto archiving things etc would be good.
In practice, i connected gmail and asked it: "can you archive emails that have an unsubscribe link in them (that are not currently archived)?" and it got stuck on "I'll check what MCP tools are available for email operations first." But i connected gmail through your interface, and I don't see in settings anything about it also having configured the mcp? I also looked at the knowledge graph and it had 20 entities, NONE of which I had any idea what they were. I'm guessing its just putting in people trying to spam me into the contacts? It didn't finish running, but I didn't want to burn endless tokens trying to see if it would find actual people i care about, so I shut it down. One "proxy" for "people i care about" might be "people I send emails to"? I could see how this is a hard problem. I also think regardless I want things more transparent. So for the moment, I'm sticking with Craft Code for this even though it is missing some major things but at least its more clear what it is: its claude code, with a nice UI.
Hope this was helpful. I know there are multiple people working on things in this family, and I will probably be "largely solved" by the end of 2026, and then we will want it to do the next thing! Good luck, I will watch for updates and these are some nice ideas!

by alansaber

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Big fan of the idea. 1: is the context graph tweakable in any way 2: how does the user handle/approve background tasks? Otherwise cool and good job!

by nkmnz

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How does this differ from https://github.com/getzep/graphiti ?

by delichon

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How do you handle entity clustering/deduplication?

by haolez

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Cool idea. I use Logseq with some custom scripts and plugins for that. Works very well with today's models capabilities.

by btbuildem

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How do you manage scope creep (ie, context size), and contradictory information in the context?

by einpoklum

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> We’d love to hear your thoughts
Google Mail should not be used, nor its use encouraged. Nor should you encourage the use of LLMs of large corporations which suck in user data for mining, analysis, and surveillance purposes.
I would also be worried about energy use, and would not trust an "agent" to have shell access, that sounds rather unsafe.

by rezmoss

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this makes a lot of sense "work memory" feels like what agents have been missing

by limonstublechew

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by Curiositiy

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Fucking hate software dorks turning simple web searches into a polluted, unrelated results list, thanks to their stupid, unimaginative & completely unrelated one-word "product" names.