agentmail-cli

AgentMail CLI

The official CLI for the AgentMail API.

Installation

npm install -g agentmail-cli

Setup

export AGENTMAIL_API_KEY=am_us_xxx

Usage

agentmail [resource] <command> [flags...]

# List inboxes
agentmail inboxes list

# Create an inbox
agentmail inboxes create --display-name "My Inbox"

# Send a message
agentmail inboxes:messages send \
  --inbox-id inb_xxx \
  --to user@example.com \
  --subject "Hello" \
  --text "Hi there"

# List threads
agentmail inboxes:threads list --inbox-id inb_xxx

Use --help on any command for details.

Environment variables

Global flags

• --api-key (can also be set with AGENTMAIL_API_KEY env var)
• --help - Show command line usage
• --debug - Enable debug logging (includes HTTP request/response details)
• --version, -v - Show the CLI version
• --base-url - Use a custom API backend URL
• --format - Change the output format (auto, explore, json, jsonl, pretty, raw, yaml)
• --format-error - Change the output format for errors (auto, explore, json, jsonl, pretty, raw, yaml)
• --transform - Transform the data output using GJSON syntax
• --transform-error - Transform the error output using GJSON syntax

Passing files as arguments

To pass files to your API, you can use the @myfile.ext syntax:

agentmail <command> --arg @abe.jpg

Files can also be passed inside JSON or YAML blobs:

agentmail <command> --arg '{image: "@abe.jpg"}'
# Equivalent:
agentmail <command> <<YAML
arg:
  image: "@abe.jpg"
YAML

If you need to pass a string literal that begins with an @ sign, you can escape the @ sign to avoid accidentally passing a file.

agentmail <command> --username '\@abe'

Explicit encoding

For JSON endpoints, the CLI tool does filetype sniffing to determine whether the file contents should be sent as a string literal (for plain text files) or as a base64-encoded string literal (for binary files). If you need to explicitly send the file as either plain text or base64-encoded data, you can use @file://myfile.txt (for string encoding) or @data://myfile.dat (for base64-encoding). Note that absolute paths will begin with @file:// or @data://, followed by a third / (for example, @file:///tmp/file.txt).

agentmail <command> --arg @data://file.txt

Documentation

docs.agentmail.to