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docs(ea): the mail surface DRAFTS by default — say so, and say what it cannot do - #2937
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…t cannot do The Executive Assistant page listed `SendMail`/`ReplyToMail` as the mail tool surface. On a default deployment neither exists: `Email:AgentSend` defaults to `DraftOnly`, where the send tools are never handed to the model at all. An agent reading this page therefore promised a send it could not perform, and then went looking for a credential of its own to keep the promise — which is exactly what the DraftOnly design exists to prevent. - tool table: name the draft tools, mark the send pair as opt-in - new section on `Email:AgentSend`, why the gate is structural rather than a policy the model is asked to respect, and what to tell the person instead - new section on the two limits that decide whether a promise is keepable: no tool attaches a file (that is the Share ⇒ as email / ExportAndSend path), and none amends a draft (no UpdateDraft — a correction means a second draft) - the connect-link answer is an instruction to relay, not an obstacle to route around; AGENTS.md carries the short form Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Updates core documentation to accurately describe the Executive Assistant (EA) mail surface in default deployments, emphasizing “draft-only” behavior and the consent boundary to prevent agents from promising (or attempting) sends.
Changes:
- Corrects the EA mail tool list to reflect draft tools by default and makes send tools explicitly opt-in.
- Documents the
Email:AgentSendconfiguration default (DraftOnly), what agents must say/do in that mode, and the connect-link handling. - Adds an AGENTS.md “short form” rule covering draft-only sending, attachments, draft amendment limits, and consent.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| src/MeshWeaver.Documentation/Data/AI/ExecutiveAssistant.md | Updates EA documentation: tool surface, Email:AgentSend draft-only default, attachment/amendment limits, and connect-link guidance. |
| AGENTS.md | Adds a concise, always-visible brief for agents about EA mail behavior and consent boundaries. |
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What changed
Doc/AI/ExecutiveAssistantdescribed the mail tool surface asListInbox,SearchMail,ReadMail,SendMail,ReplyToMail. On a default deployment the last two do not exist:MailAgentOptions.SendModereadsEmail:AgentSendand defaults toDraftOnly, and in that mode the send tools are never handed to the model at all (MailAgentOptions.cs:11-19,ExecutiveAssistantPlugin.cs:254).Why it mattered
An agent that reads the page believes it can send. Overnight on memex one did: it told the user it would send a deadline-critical mail, discovered at call time that it only had
DraftMail/DraftReply, and then went looking for a Graph token of its own to keep the promise. That is precisely the outcomeDraftOnlyis designed to prevent, and the page was the reason it tried.The edits
DraftMail/DraftReplyand marksSendMail/ReplyToMailas opt-in.Email:AgentSend— the default, why the gate is structural rather than a policy the model is asked to respect, how a deployment opts in, and what to tell the person instead of promising a send.SendDocumentDispatch.ExportAndSendwithDocumentDelivery.Attachment, which sends as the user off the sameEaCredential), and none amends a draft (there is noUpdateDraft, so a correction means a second draft beside the first — the asymmetry the calendar surface already fixed withGetEvent+UpdateEventafter the 2026-08-16 data loss).{BaseUrl}/auth/ea/connect, never mint a token instead.Testing
Markdown only — no code, no behaviour change. Every statement was read out of the source rather than inferred:
MailAgentOptions.cs(enum +SendModeKey = "Email:AgentSend"+ default),ExecutiveAssistantPlugin.cs(the full public tool list,RefuseIfDraftOnly),SendDocumentLayoutArea.cs(DocumentDelivery.Attachment,EmailDelivery.AsUser). Link targets verified to exist:/Doc/Architecture/SendingEmail,/Doc/GUI/NotificationPreferences, and the AGENTS.md path.DocumentationLinkIntegrityTestno longer lives in this repo (it travelled to MeshWeaver.Plugins with the AI engine, #2276), so the added links were checked against the file tree directly; the one link form no other page uses (@/Skill/…, whose partition is no longer served from here) was deliberately reduced to a plainget Skill/share-emailreference.🤖 Generated with Claude Code