AI agent email address

If the agent does email work, give it an address.

An AI agent should not need a person's mailbox to receive requests, send replies, or hold business context. Gent gives the agent a real inbox with boundaries around what it can do.

The problem

Borrowed inboxes blur identity and authority.

When an agent sends from a person or team mailbox, recipients see a human address and the system inherits human context. That makes it harder to bound access, review actions, and explain what happened.

Borrowed identity

The agent appears to be the person whose mailbox it uses.

Borrowed reputation

Bad or premature sends affect the human or team address.

Borrowed context

The agent may see mailbox history unrelated to the workflow.

Borrowed trail

Agent sends and human sends mix inside one mailbox.

What changes

The address defines the delegated work surface.

Address

Create an inbox for the agent, workflow, client, or project.

Receive

Route or send mail directly to the inbox that owns the job.

Authorize

Use token scopes to define what the agent can do.

Approve

Hold sensitive sends or actions for a person before execution.

Trace

Messages, replies, files, events, and approvals stay attached to the agent inbox.

Where it fits

Use it whenever the agent should be accountable as a worker, not hidden inside a person.

Follow-up agents

Send and receive from an address built for the workflow.

Intake agents

Let requests and files arrive where automation can classify and hand them off.

Support agents

Prepare or route customer replies without borrowing a team mailbox.

Client agents

Give each client or project a separate address, context, and record.

Next step

Give the agent an address before it borrows yours.

Start with one agent, client, or workflow that should receive and send from a clear inbox with its own boundaries.