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No scopes, users or per-client keys. Inbox and alias management also needs a Cloudflare API token on the Worker.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free, MIT-licensed software. Running it needs the Cloudflare Workers Paid plan ($5 a month) for Durable Objects and outbound Email Service; the README puts a typical agent at about $5 a month. Resend can be used for outbound instead.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source or README (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 21, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/hirefrank/clawpost#readme", "capabilities": [ "email.inbox", "email.send", "email.inbound", "email.threads", "email.domains" ], "tags": [ "self-hosted", "open-source", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "api-key", "cloudflare", "webhooks", "approvals", "typescript", "cli", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36.8, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1361, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 60, "reliability": 8, "schema": 54, "security": 42, "transparency": 32 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small self-hosted agent inbox whose sender-approval gate keeps unknown senders' mail away from the agent by default, with drafts for human review. It is one developer's project, unchanged since 1 April 2026, with one all-powerful key, no releases, tests or CI.", "bestFor": "A developer who wants an agent inbox on their own domain and Cloudflare account with a default approval gate.", "strengths": [ "Mail from unapproved senders is stored but hidden from every query tool until a sender is approved", "Drafts let a person review mail before an agent's message goes out", "Self-hosted on the deployer's own Cloudflare account, so mail stays in their D1 and R2", "21 MCP tools with typed zod inputs, plus a REST API and a CLI with `--json` output", "Free software; running costs are the Cloudflare Workers Paid plan at $5 a month" ], "weaknesses": [ "One shared API key grants every REST and MCP operation; no scopes or read-only key", "No commits since 1 April 2026, no tags or releases, no CI and no tests", "No idempotency on sends and no MCP tool annotations", "Tool descriptions are one line, such as `Send an email`, with no when-not-to-use guidance", "README says MIT but no LICENSE file is in the repository" ], "agentNotes": [ "Expect unknown senders' mail to be invisible until `approve_sender` runs; check `list_pending` for metadata first", "Use `create_draft` instead of `send_email` when a person should review the message", "Send to one address per call or comma-separate recipients in `to`; a retried send isn't deduplicated", "Treat the deployer's Worker URL and `CLAWPOST_API_KEY` as full access to the mailbox" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 60, "reliability": 8, "schema": 54, "security": 42, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 13, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "git clone https://github.com/hirefrank/clawpost \u0026\u0026 cd clawpost \u0026\u0026 bun install \u0026\u0026 bun run db:migrate \u0026\u0026 bun run deploy", "config": { "mcpServers": { "clawpost": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_CLAWPOST_API_KEY" }, "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://\u003cyour-worker\u003e.workers.dev/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.inbox", "tool": "https://letme.dev/clawpost" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "github.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "A personal repository under the GitHub account hirefrank; every commit but one merged pull request is by Frank Harris. No company, terms or privacy policy, as expected for self-hosted software.", "The README's licence section says MIT and SKILL.md declares MIT, but no LICENSE file is committed.", "The endpoint is whatever Worker URL the deployer chooses, usually on workers.dev.", "GitHub's API refused our requests for its rate limit on 6 November 2026, so stars and open issues weren't read; the code and history come from a shallow clone." ], "score": 13 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawpost.json", "live": { "slug": "clawpost", "githubStars": 6, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://github.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2026-12-07T16:01:24z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:24.824706262Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:24.824706262Z" } }, "answer": "InboxAPI scores 46.2 (D) on agent readiness against Clawpost's 36.8 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Clawpost leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "inboxapi", "name": "InboxAPI", "vendor": "Sitka Capital Pty Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://inboxapi.ai", "kind": "mcp", "category": "agent-inboxes", "summary": "InboxAPI gives an AI agent its own email address on a subdomain of inboxapi.ai for sending, receiving, searching, replying and forwarding. Access is through MCP, by a local CLI that bridges stdio to the hosted service.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inboxapi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inboxapi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inboxapi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inboxapi.json", "dns": "inboxapi.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/inboxapi/cli", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under InboxAPI's terms of service. The CLI on GitHub is MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.inboxapi.ai/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@inboxapi/cli" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "Nothing to obtain. On first run the CLI computes a 20-bit hashcash stamp, creates an account with a generated name, and stores an access and a refresh token in a local credentials file written with mode 0600. It adds the token to every tool call and refreshes it, so the model never handles a credential. Tokens cover the whole account with no scopes. Linking an owner's address with `inboxapi verify-owner` (a six-digit code by email) is the only way to recover an account whose credentials file is lost.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free, with no card, no trial period and no usage tiers, per the home page and FAQ. No paid plan is on sale, and the FAQ says paid plans with more capabilities are planned. An account has five slots for external recipients, 100 requests a minute, and daily and hourly send quotas whose numbers aren't published (https://inboxapi.ai/limits/).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, `llms.txt`, the 27 tool definitions or the CLI source. An unauthenticated `tools/list` call to https://mcp.inboxapi.ai/mcp returned 200 with the tool list, not a payment challenge (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 21, "popularity": { "githubStars": 12, "npmWeekly": 38, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://inboxapi.ai/getting-started/", "llmsTxt": "https://inboxapi.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "email.inbox", "email.send", "email.inbound", "email.threads", "guard.injection" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "free", "no-card", "no-signup", "mcp", "stdio", "cli", "llms-txt", "rust", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.2, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1163, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 43, "payments": 53, "reliability": 33, "schema": 28, "security": 57, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An account and address are created on first use with proof-of-work and no signup, key or card, and inbound mail is trust-labelled and datamarked against prompt injection. Mail arrives by polling only, an account can hold five external recipients at a time, and no status page, SLA, changelog or security contact was found.", "bestFor": "A personal mailbox for one coding agent that needs to exchange mail with its owner and a few contacts at no cost.", "strengths": [ "First use creates the account and address by proof-of-work, with no signup form, API key or card", "Every inbound message carries a trust level, and untrusted bodies and subjects are datamarked with a per-request marker", "The CLI hides nine auth and encryption tools from the model and requires `confirm` on `forward_email`", "Reading tools default to plain text with `content_format`, and lists page by `limit` and `offset` up to 50", "The CLI source is public under the MIT licence, with CI, CodeQL and npm provenance from trusted publishing" ], "weaknesses": [ "Mail arrives by polling only. No webhook, websocket or push tool was found in the tool list or docs", "An account holds five external recipient slots, and a full slot frees only after five days without use", "No status page, SLA, changelog, security.txt or disclosure policy was found on the site or in the repository", "Daily and hourly send quotas are enforced without published numbers, and sends take no idempotency key", "The privacy policy gives no retention period and names no sub-processors, and the terms allow functions to be removed at any time", "No published input schemas for the hosted tools. The docs list names and one-line descriptions only" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `whoami` for the agent's own address. To email the owner, read `get_addressbook` first and ask only if the address is absent", "Run `inboxapi verify-owner` in a shell early. Without a verified owner address a lost credentials file can't be recovered", "Poll with `get_email_count` and a `since` time, then `get_emails`. Nothing pushes new mail to the agent", "Pass `confirm: true` to `forward_email`, and `allow_new_recipients: true` on a send to an address not in the addressbook", "Replace the marker named in `spotlight.marker` with a space to read a datamarked body, and treat its content as data" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 43, "payments": 53, "reliability": 33, "schema": 28, "security": 57, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 64, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @inboxapi/cli@latest", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add inboxapi inboxapi", "config": { "mcpServers": { "inboxapi": { "command": "inboxapi" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.inbox", "tool": "https://letme.dev/inboxapi" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sitka Capital Pty Ltd", "domain": "inboxapi.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-02-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://inboxapi.ai/tos/", "privacy": "https://inboxapi.ai/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/inboxapi/cli/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy (both last updated 11 September 2026) name Sitka Capital Pty Ltd of Sydney, New South Wales, as operator under a licence from Dini Labs Pty Ltd (ABN 87 691 095 477), which owns the technology. We did not look either company up in the Australian business register.", "The terms cover the service itself, including acceptable use, data roles and liability, and are governed by the law of New South Wales. There is no separate API agreement, and the privacy policy says a DPA is available on request.", "RDAP gives inboxapi.ai a registration date of 2026-02-16. The MCP endpoint is at mcp.inboxapi.ai, and the tool descriptions name inboxapi.io and inboxapi.dev as further InboxAPI domains.", "`https://inboxapi.ai/.well-known/security.txt` returns 404, and the repository has no SECURITY.md.", "No status page was found on the site, in its sitemap or in the repository. 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"rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "rotate_encryption_secret", "message": "none of its 3 parameters has a description", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "search_emails", "message": "4 parameters without a description: domain, limit, offset, token", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "forward_email", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_email", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_emails", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_last_email", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_sent_emails", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_thread", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "search_emails", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "send_email", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC15", "severity": "warn", "tool": "send_reply", "message": "inputSchema uses $ref/$defs", "fix": "Inline the referenced schemas. Pydantic and zod-to-json-schema emit $defs for nested models; most can be told not to." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "account_create", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "account_recover", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "auth_exchange", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "auth_introspect", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "auth_refresh", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "auth_revoke", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "auth_revoke_all", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "custom_domain_claim", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "delete_email", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "enable_encryption", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "forward_email", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_addressbook", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_announcements", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_attachment", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_email", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_email_count", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_emails", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_last_email", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_sent_emails", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_thread", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"get\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "help", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "reset_encryption", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "rotate_encryption_secret", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "search_emails", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Its name starts with \"search\"; if it only reads, set readOnlyHint: true so harnesses can run it without asking." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "send_email", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "send_reply", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC16", "severity": "warn", "tool": "verify_owner", "message": "no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint", "fix": "Set readOnlyHint: true if it only reads; otherwise set destructiveHint and idempotentHint." }, { "rule": "TC21", "severity": "warn", "tool": "get_emails", "message": "described almost the same as get_last_email (81% of the same words)", "fix": "Say in each description when to use it instead of the other." }, { "rule": "TC24", "severity": "note", "message": "27 of 27 tools have no outputSchema", "fix": "Declare outputSchema for tools that return structured data, and return structuredContent that matches it." } ], "withheld": true } }, "github": { "repo": "inboxapi/cli", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:55:54.133832666Z", "stars": 13, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-09-22T06:38:33Z", "openIssues": 4, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 2, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 3, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 49, "success": 44, "failure": 5, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-09-22T06:39:41Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 14, "unanswered": 2, "medianDays": 0.6 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:31.654704039Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 41, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "inboxapi", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "The last commit was on 1 April 2026, 219 days before this check (0). No releases or commits in the 90 days from 8 August (0). Issue and pull request activity couldn't be read through GitHub's API that day (0, unchecked). Not in the official MCP registry and no published package (0). Dependencies such as `agents` ^0.0.74 and the MCP SDK ^1.12.1 date from early 2026, and there's no CI (2 of 10). Total 2.", "b": "Four versions were tagged on 22 September 2026 and none since (git ls-remote, 4 November). v0.3.20 carries the `archive-email` alias and other CLI changes since v0.3.19 (25 May), so recency is 43 days (20 of 30, 30 on 9 October). The 90-day line counts dated entries from 6 August, v0.3.20 (full), v0.3.21 (a test fix and release-workflow change, packaging-only, half), and v0.3.22 and v0.3.23, tagged on the same commit as v0.3.21 (half each), 2.5 in all, short of three (0 of 20; the line is 20 or 0). Issues and pull requests per the 9 October reading, not re-read (15 of 25). The 9 October MCP registry search came from its JSON API, which this run doesn't use, and is struck; no entry is credited (0 of 15). CI and CodeQL configured, CI passing on 22 September per the 9 October reading, npm trusted publishing, `Cargo.toml` on the default branch still at 0.3.14 (8 of 10). 20 + 0 + 15 + 0 + 8 = 43." }, "scores": { "a": 2, "b": 43 } }, { "by": 26, "category": "schema", "leads": "clawpost", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "All 21 MCP tools take typed zod inputs, which the MCP SDK publishes as JSON Schema (25). SKILL.md and AGENTS.md give agent-readable setup in Markdown; no llms.txt (5 of 10). Descriptions are one line each, such as `Send an email`, with parameter descriptions but no when-not-to-use (8 of 20). Inputs are typed with defaults for limit and offset, but recipients are a comma-separated string and direction isn't an enum in the schema read (9 of 15). The README has request examples and a REST route table; error responses aren't documented (7 of 15). No versioning or changelog (0). Total 54.", "b": "Graded on the MCP tools. The 9 October contract reading came from an unauthenticated `tools/list` call to the hosted endpoint, a request to the product's own endpoint, and is struck. No published document gives the server's input schemas. The tools reference lists 17 tool names with one-line descriptions, which isn't a contract, and the CLI source defines schemas only for its three local tools (0). `llms.txt` is published (10). The reference's one-liners say what each tool does, and a few say how, such as `get_thread` taking any Message-ID, with nothing on when not to call them (8 of 20). With the schemas struck, no typed inputs, enums or constraints are published (0). The docs show one sample response, for spotlighting, and no error reference (5 of 15). Releases are tagged with empty notes, there is no changelog, and the hosted tools carry no version (5 of 15). 0 + 10 + 8 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 28." }, "scores": { "a": 54, "b": 28 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "reliability", "leads": "inboxapi", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded with the lines for self-hosted software, since each deployer runs their own Worker. No published package; it deploys from the repository with a Deploy to Cloudflare button, Bun and Wrangler, and states the Cloudflare products it needs (8 of 20). No CI workflow or test suite in the repository (0). Open issues couldn't be read, because GitHub's API refused our requests for its rate limit, so the line scores absent (0, unchecked). No tags, releases or changelog; package.json says 0.1.0 (0). Pre-1.0 (0). Total 8.", "b": "Graded as a hosted service, because the mail runs on InboxAPI's servers and the CLI is a bridge to them. No status page was found on the site or in the repository (0 of 20), so there is no readable incident history (5 of 30). The limits page, re-read on 4 November, gives 100 requests a minute, 20 a minute on auth calls and five external recipient slots, and says daily and hourly send quotas are enforced without giving numbers (11 of 15, an in-between value kept and flagged). A 429 carries `Retry-After` per the limits page, which says to wait that many seconds before retrying, and the CLI source adds the wait to the tool error. Sends take no idempotency key (10 of 15). A rate-limit header read from a response on 9 October came from a request to the product's own endpoint and is struck; the award never rested on it. No SLA, and the terms guarantee no availability (0). Nothing on the site marks the service beta, while the CLI is at 0.3.23 and the README says functions may change without notice (7 of 10, in-between, kept and flagged). 0 + 5 + 11 + 10 + 0 + 7 = 33." }, "scores": { "a": 8, "b": 33 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "transparency", "leads": "inboxapi", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "The README and SKILL.md say MIT, but no LICENSE file is committed (20 of 30). Self-hosted; the README says mail is stored in the deployer's D1 database with attachments in R2 and sent through Cloudflare Email Service or Resend. No retention or deletion guidance (15 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). No telemetry in the source read; the only outbound calls are to the configured mail provider, Cloudflare's API and the deployer's own webhooks (15 of 20). Total 50.", "b": "The CLI is open source under the MIT licence. The hosted mail service is closed, under terms dated 11 September 2026 that name Sitka Capital Pty Ltd as operator and Dini Labs Pty Ltd as owner of the technology (20 of 30). The terms and the privacy policy agree on roles, with the customer as controller of mail content, and the policy lists what is collected. It gives no retention period, and a DPA is available on request only (15 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow functions to be removed at any time, with 14 days' notice only for changes to the terms that reduce a user's rights (3 of 20). No sub-processors are named, and data may be held in Australia and overseas, the United States among them. The CLI asks the npm registry for the latest version once a day and sends the MCP client's name and version to the service in its User-Agent, per the source (5 of 20). Terms and privacy policy still dated 11 September 2026 on 4 November." }, "scores": { "a": 32, "b": 54 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "security", "leads": "inboxapi", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "One shared secret for REST and MCP, compared in constant time, with no scopes, expiry or per-client keys (10 of 30). Sender approval, drafts, and an optional allowlist of domains for routing changes limit what an agent can see and change; the key can still send to anyone (14 of 20). Mail from unapproved senders is hidden from all query tools by default, and `list_pending` returns metadata without bodies, documented as a prompt-injection guard (15). No log of API or tool calls beyond the stored messages (3 of 15). No security policy, advisories or disclosure route for this personal project (0). Total 42.", "b": "The CLI holds an access and a refresh token in a local file written with mode 0600 and puts the token into each call, so the model never handles it. Tokens cover the whole account with no scopes, travel in the request body, and can be revoked one at a time or all at once from the CLI (20 of 30). There is no read-only mode. The CLI refuses `forward_email` without `confirm`, refuses new recipients unless a flag the model can set itself is passed, and keeps five auth and encryption tools out of MCP. The service caps an account at five external recipients (12 of 20). Inbound mail gets one of four trust levels and untrusted text is datamarked with a per-request marker, tool descriptions warn against following email content, and outbound mail containing a JWT is rejected, per the docs (14 of 15). `get_sent_emails` shows delivery status and an optional Claude Code hook writes a local activity log. No server-side audit log was found (6 of 15). `security.txt` returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bounty or certification was found. The repository runs CodeQL and publishes to npm with provenance (5 of 20). Re-read on 4 November, security.txt still answers 404, the repository has no SECURITY.md, and osv.dev lists no advisory for inboxapi or @inboxapi/cli." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 57 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "inboxapi", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "21 tools, the 11 to 30 band (15 of 25). List and search tools take limit, offset and filters by direction, sender, label and archive state (20). Error shapes aren't documented; the code returns JSON errors (8 of 20). No idempotency key for sends and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations; drafts give a review step (3 of 20). Archived mail is excluded by default and the CLI has a `--json` mode, but there's no SDK beyond the CLI (7 of 15). Total 53.", "b": "The CLI source hides nine auth and encryption tools from MCP clients (five blocked, four internal) and adds local `whoami`, `report_bug` and `request_feature`. The tools reference names 17 tools and the README speaks of 21 tool definitions, so an agent sees between 11 and 30 (15 of 25, plus 2 for the hidden auth tools and the plain-text default, 17). The 28 KB size of the definitions came from the struck `tools/list` reading and is dropped. The reference describes paginated `get_emails`, search by sender, subject or date range, and a count tool. Bodies can't be searched (17 of 20, per 9 October, kept). No error codes are documented. The CLI source returns plain messages for refused recipients and rate limits (8 of 20). Sends take no idempotency key. The CLI adds `readOnlyHint` and `destructiveHint` to the tools and retries a call once after a token refresh (10 of 20). A send needs three fields and setup needs no configuration. There is no SDK, only the CLI, whose subcommands print JSON (9 of 15). 17 + 17 + 8 + 10 + 9 = 61." }, "scores": { "a": 53, "b": 61 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "MCP server", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Frank Harris", "b": "Sitka Capital Pty Ltd", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://mcp.inboxapi.ai/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "b": "stdio, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under InboxAPI's terms of service. The CLI on GitHub is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "21", "b": "21", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-04-01", "b": "2026-09-22", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-11", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-11", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "12 stars, 38 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "InboxAPI scores 46.2 (D) on agent readiness against Clawpost's 36.8 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Clawpost leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Clawpost or InboxAPI?" }, { "answer": "Clawpost needs an API key. InboxAPI needs no key.", "question": "Do Clawpost and InboxAPI need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Clawpost. InboxAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.inboxapi.ai/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call Clawpost and InboxAPI without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Clawpost is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for InboxAPI.", "question": "Are Clawpost and InboxAPI open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 54 against 28", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 53" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A developer who wants an agent inbox on their own domain and Cloudflare account with a default approval gate.", "slug": "clawpost", "watchFor": "One shared API key grants every REST and MCP operation; no scopes or read-only key" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 33 against 8", "Agent ergonomics, 61 against 53", "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 42", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 43 against 2", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 54 against 32" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A personal mailbox for one coding agent that needs to exchange mail with its owner and a few contacts at no cost.", "slug": "inboxapi", "watchFor": "Mail arrives by polling only. No webhook, websocket or push tool was found in the tool list or docs" } ], "history": { "clawpost": null, "inboxapi": [ { "causes": [ "correction", "time" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": -8.4, "from": 54.6, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 46.2, "toGrade": "D" }, { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.1, "from": 54.5, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 54.6, "toGrade": "C" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "email.inbox", "name": "Agent inboxes" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentmail-vs-clawpost.json", "title": "AgentMail API + MCP vs Clawpost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentmail-vs-clawpost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentmail-vs-inboxapi.json", "title": "AgentMail API + MCP vs InboxAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentmail-vs-inboxapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cherami-vs-clawpost.json", "title": "Cherami vs Clawpost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cherami-vs-clawpost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cherami-vs-inboxapi.json", "title": "Cherami vs InboxAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cherami-vs-inboxapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-hostinger-agentic-mail.json", "title": "Clawpost vs Hostinger Agentic Mail", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-hostinger-agentic-mail" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inbound.json", "title": "Clawpost vs Inbound", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inbound" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-lumbox.json", "title": "Clawpost vs Lumbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-lumbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-mailows.json", "title": "Clawpost vs Mailows", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hostinger-agentic-mail-vs-inboxapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inbound-vs-inboxapi.json", "title": "Inbound vs InboxAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inbound-vs-inboxapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-lumbox.json", "title": "InboxAPI vs Lumbox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-lumbox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-mailows.json", "title": "InboxAPI vs Mailows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-mailows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-mails-ai.json", "title": "InboxAPI vs mails.ai Agent Email", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-mails-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-mailslurp.json", "title": "InboxAPI vs MailSlurp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inboxapi-vs-mailslurp" }, { 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{ "by": 7, "clawpost": 60, "edge": "clawpost", "inboxapi": 53, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 41, "clawpost": 2, "edge": "inboxapi", "inboxapi": 43, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 22, "clawpost": 32, "edge": "inboxapi", "inboxapi": 54, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "InboxAPI scores 46.2 (D) on agent readiness against Clawpost's 36.8 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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Mail arrives by polling only, an account can hold five external recipients at a time, and no status page, SLA, changelog or security contact was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inboxapi", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inboxapi.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inboxapi.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inboxapi.min.md" }, "markdown": "InboxAPI scores 46.2 (D) on agent readiness against Clawpost's 36.8 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Clawpost leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent inboxes.\n\n- Clawpost: grade F, 36.8/100, rank #1361 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawpost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clawpost.json\n- InboxAPI: grade D, 46.2/100, rank #1163 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inboxapi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inboxapi.json\n- Best email inbox APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-inboxes/index.md\n- All 66 inboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-inboxes/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Clawpost (F)\n\nGood for: A developer who wants an agent inbox on their own domain and Cloudflare account with a default approval gate.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 54 against 28\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: One shared API key grants every REST and MCP operation; no scopes or read-only key\n\n### InboxAPI (D)\n\nGood for: A personal mailbox for one coding agent that needs to exchange mail with its owner and a few contacts at no cost.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 33 against 8\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 42\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 43 against 2\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 54 against 32\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Mail arrives by polling only. No webhook, websocket or push tool was found in the tool list or docs\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: InboxAPI +41\n\n- Clawpost (2): The last commit was on 1 April 2026, 219 days before this check (0). No releases or commits in the 90 days from 8 August (0). Issue and pull request activity couldn't be read through GitHub's API that day (0, unchecked). Not in the official MCP registry and no published package (0). Dependencies such as `agents` ^0.0.74 and the MCP SDK ^1.12.1 date from early 2026, and there's no CI (2 of 10). Total 2.\n- InboxAPI (43): Four versions were tagged on 22 September 2026 and none since (git ls-remote, 4 November). v0.3.20 carries the `archive-email` alias and other CLI changes since v0.3.19 (25 May), so recency is 43 days (20 of 30, 30 on 9 October). The 90-day line counts dated entries from 6 August, v0.3.20 (full), v0.3.21 (a test fix and release-workflow change, packaging-only, half), and v0.3.22 and v0.3.23, tagged on the same commit as v0.3.21 (half each), 2.5 in all, short of three (0 of 20; the line is 20 or 0). Issues and pull requests per the 9 October reading, not re-read (15 of 25). The 9 October MCP registry search came from its JSON API, which this run doesn't use, and is struck; no entry is credited (0 of 15). CI and CodeQL configured, CI passing on 22 September per the 9 October reading, npm trusted publishing, `Cargo.toml` on the default branch still at 0.3.14 (8 of 10). 20 + 0 + 15 + 0 + 8 = 43.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Clawpost +26\n\n- Clawpost (54): All 21 MCP tools take typed zod inputs, which the MCP SDK publishes as JSON Schema (25). SKILL.md and AGENTS.md give agent-readable setup in Markdown; no llms.txt (5 of 10). Descriptions are one line each, such as `Send an email`, with parameter descriptions but no when-not-to-use (8 of 20). Inputs are typed with defaults for limit and offset, but recipients are a comma-separated string and direction isn't an enum in the schema read (9 of 15). The README has request examples and a REST route table; error responses aren't documented (7 of 15). No versioning or changelog (0). Total 54.\n- InboxAPI (28): Graded on the MCP tools. The 9 October contract reading came from an unauthenticated `tools/list` call to the hosted endpoint, a request to the product's own endpoint, and is struck. No published document gives the server's input schemas. The tools reference lists 17 tool names with one-line descriptions, which isn't a contract, and the CLI source defines schemas only for its three local tools (0). `llms.txt` is published (10). The reference's one-liners say what each tool does, and a few say how, such as `get_thread` taking any Message-ID, with nothing on when not to call them (8 of 20). With the schemas struck, no typed inputs, enums or constraints are published (0). The docs show one sample response, for spotlighting, and no error reference (5 of 15). Releases are tagged with empty notes, there is no changelog, and the hosted tools carry no version (5 of 15). 0 + 10 + 8 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 28.\n\n### Reliability: InboxAPI +25\n\n- Clawpost (8): Graded with the lines for self-hosted software, since each deployer runs their own Worker. No published package; it deploys from the repository with a Deploy to Cloudflare button, Bun and Wrangler, and states the Cloudflare products it needs (8 of 20). No CI workflow or test suite in the repository (0). Open issues couldn't be read, because GitHub's API refused our requests for its rate limit, so the line scores absent (0, unchecked). No tags, releases or changelog; package.json says 0.1.0 (0). Pre-1.0 (0). Total 8.\n- InboxAPI (33): Graded as a hosted service, because the mail runs on InboxAPI's servers and the CLI is a bridge to them. No status page was found on the site or in the repository (0 of 20), so there is no readable incident history (5 of 30). The limits page, re-read on 4 November, gives 100 requests a minute, 20 a minute on auth calls and five external recipient slots, and says daily and hourly send quotas are enforced without giving numbers (11 of 15, an in-between value kept and flagged). A 429 carries `Retry-After` per the limits page, which says to wait that many seconds before retrying, and the CLI source adds the wait to the tool error. Sends take no idempotency key (10 of 15). A rate-limit header read from a response on 9 October came from a request to the product's own endpoint and is struck; the award never rested on it. No SLA, and the terms guarantee no availability (0). Nothing on the site marks the service beta, while the CLI is at 0.3.23 and the README says functions may change without notice (7 of 10, in-between, kept and flagged). 0 + 5 + 11 + 10 + 0 + 7 = 33.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: InboxAPI +22\n\n- Clawpost (32): The README and SKILL.md say MIT, but no LICENSE file is committed (20 of 30). Self-hosted; the README says mail is stored in the deployer's D1 database with attachments in R2 and sent through Cloudflare Email Service or Resend. No retention or deletion guidance (15 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). No telemetry in the source read; the only outbound calls are to the configured mail provider, Cloudflare's API and the deployer's own webhooks (15 of 20). Total 50.\n- InboxAPI (54): The CLI is open source under the MIT licence. The hosted mail service is closed, under terms dated 11 September 2026 that name Sitka Capital Pty Ltd as operator and Dini Labs Pty Ltd as owner of the technology (20 of 30). The terms and the privacy policy agree on roles, with the customer as controller of mail content, and the policy lists what is collected. It gives no retention period, and a DPA is available on request only (15 of 30). No deprecation policy. The terms allow functions to be removed at any time, with 14 days' notice only for changes to the terms that reduce a user's rights (3 of 20). No sub-processors are named, and data may be held in Australia and overseas, the United States among them. The CLI asks the npm registry for the latest version once a day and sends the MCP client's name and version to the service in its User-Agent, per the source (5 of 20). Terms and privacy policy still dated 11 September 2026 on 4 November.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: InboxAPI +15\n\n- Clawpost (42): One shared secret for REST and MCP, compared in constant time, with no scopes, expiry or per-client keys (10 of 30). Sender approval, drafts, and an optional allowlist of domains for routing changes limit what an agent can see and change; the key can still send to anyone (14 of 20). Mail from unapproved senders is hidden from all query tools by default, and `list_pending` returns metadata without bodies, documented as a prompt-injection guard (15). No log of API or tool calls beyond the stored messages (3 of 15). No security policy, advisories or disclosure route for this personal project (0). Total 42.\n- InboxAPI (57): The CLI holds an access and a refresh token in a local file written with mode 0600 and puts the token into each call, so the model never handles it. Tokens cover the whole account with no scopes, travel in the request body, and can be revoked one at a time or all at once from the CLI (20 of 30). There is no read-only mode. The CLI refuses `forward_email` without `confirm`, refuses new recipients unless a flag the model can set itself is passed, and keeps five auth and encryption tools out of MCP. The service caps an account at five external recipients (12 of 20). Inbound mail gets one of four trust levels and untrusted text is datamarked with a per-request marker, tool descriptions warn against following email content, and outbound mail containing a JWT is rejected, per the docs (14 of 15). `get_sent_emails` shows delivery status and an optional Claude Code hook writes a local activity log. No server-side audit log was found (6 of 15). `security.txt` returns 404, and no disclosure policy, bounty or certification was found. The repository runs CodeQL and publishes to npm with provenance (5 of 20). Re-read on 4 November, security.txt still answers 404, the repository has no SECURITY.md, and osv.dev lists no advisory for inboxapi or @inboxapi/cli.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: InboxAPI +8\n\n- Clawpost (53): 21 tools, the 11 to 30 band (15 of 25). List and search tools take limit, offset and filters by direction, sender, label and archive state (20). Error shapes aren't documented; the code returns JSON errors (8 of 20). No idempotency key for sends and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations; drafts give a review step (3 of 20). Archived mail is excluded by default and the CLI has a `--json` mode, but there's no SDK beyond the CLI (7 of 15). Total 53.\n- InboxAPI (61): The CLI source hides nine auth and encryption tools from MCP clients (five blocked, four internal) and adds local `whoami`, `report_bug` and `request_feature`. The tools reference names 17 tools and the README speaks of 21 tool definitions, so an agent sees between 11 and 30 (15 of 25, plus 2 for the hidden auth tools and the plain-text default, 17). The 28 KB size of the definitions came from the struck `tools/list` reading and is dropped. The reference describes paginated `get_emails`, search by sender, subject or date range, and a count tool. Bodies can't be searched (17 of 20, per 9 October, kept). No error codes are documented. The CLI source returns plain messages for refused recipients and rate limits (8 of 20). Sends take no idempotency key. The CLI adds `readOnlyHint` and `destructiveHint` to the tools and retries a call once after a token refresh (10 of 20). A send needs three fields and setup needs no configuration. There is no SDK, only the CLI, whose subcommands print JSON (9 of 15). 17 + 17 + 8 + 10 + 9 = 61.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Clawpost | InboxAPI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 8 | 33 | InboxAPI +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 28 | Clawpost +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 61 | InboxAPI +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 42 | 57 | InboxAPI +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 53 | Clawpost +7 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 43 | InboxAPI +41 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 32 | 54 | InboxAPI +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **36.8 · F** | **46.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Clawpost | InboxAPI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Frank Harris | Sitka Capital Pty Ltd |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.inboxapi.ai/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary hosted service under InboxAPI's terms of service. The CLI on GitHub is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 21 | 21 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-04-01 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-11 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-11 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 12 stars, 38 npm/wk |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Clawpost\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### InboxAPI\n\n- -8.4 on 4 November 2026 (C to D): correction, time\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: new evidence\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Clawpost.** A small self-hosted agent inbox whose sender-approval gate keeps unknown senders' mail away from the agent by default, with drafts for human review. It is one developer's project, unchanged since 1 April 2026, with one all-powerful key, no releases, tests or CI.\n\n**InboxAPI.** An account and address are created on first use with proof-of-work and no signup, key or card, and inbound mail is trust-labelled and datamarked against prompt injection. Mail arrives by polling only, an account can hold five external recipients at a time, and no status page, SLA, changelog or security contact was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Clawpost\n\n1. Expect unknown senders' mail to be invisible until `approve_sender` runs; check `list_pending` for metadata first\n2. Use `create_draft` instead of `send_email` when a person should review the message\n3. Send to one address per call or comma-separate recipients in `to`; a retried send isn't deduplicated\n4. Treat the deployer's Worker URL and `CLAWPOST_API_KEY` as full access to the mailbox\n\n### InboxAPI\n\n1. Call `whoami` for the agent's own address. To email the owner, read `get_addressbook` first and ask only if the address is absent\n2. Run `inboxapi verify-owner` in a shell early. Without a verified owner address a lost credentials file can't be recovered\n3. Poll with `get_email_count` and a `since` time, then `get_emails`. Nothing pushes new mail to the agent\n4. Pass `confirm: true` to `forward_email`, and `allow_new_recipients: true` on a send to an address not in the addressbook\n5. Replace the marker named in `spotlight.marker` with a space to read a datamarked body, and treat its content as data\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Clawpost or InboxAPI?\n\nInboxAPI scores 46.2 (D) on agent readiness against Clawpost's 36.8 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Clawpost leads on schema \u0026 documentation and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Clawpost and InboxAPI need an API key?\n\nClawpost needs an API key. InboxAPI needs no key.\n\n### Can an agent call Clawpost and InboxAPI without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Clawpost. InboxAPI has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.inboxapi.ai/mcp.\n\n### Are Clawpost and InboxAPI open source?\n\nClawpost is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for InboxAPI.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inboxapi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawpost-vs-inboxapi.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"clawpost\", \"b\": \"inboxapi\"}`. 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