Agent Skills for building with the Nylas platform — email, calendar, contacts. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and 30+ AI coding agents.
Overview
Agent Skills for building with Nylas — the infrastructure that powers communications 📖 Docs · 📚 API Reference · 🚀 Sign up · 💡 Samples · 💬 Forum Agent Skills for building with the Nylas platform. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and 40+ other AI coding agents. Built on Nylas, the infrastructure that powers communications — integrate with Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP, Zoom, and 250+ providers in 5 minutes, or give your AI agent its own mailbox. Covers Agent Accounts, Email, Calendar, Contacts, Scheduler, and Notetaker. Build email, calendar, and contacts integrations with the Nylas v3 API. code imports nylas/@nylas/nylas/nylas-python, or user asks about Nylas API, OAuth, agent accounts, webhooks, scheduler, notetaker, smart compose, transactional send.
README
Agent Skills for building with the Nylas platform. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and 40+ other AI coding agents. Built on Nylas, the infrastructure that powers communications — integrate with Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP, Zoom, and 250+ providers in 5 minutes, or give your AI agent its own mailbox. Covers Agent Accounts, Email, Calendar, Contacts, Scheduler, and Notetaker.
Available Skills
nylas-api
Build email, calendar, and contacts integrations with the Nylas v3 API.
Use when: code imports nylas/@nylas/nylas/nylas-python, or user asks about Nylas API, OAuth, agent accounts, webhooks, scheduler, notetaker, smart compose, transactional send.
Covers: Authentication (6 methods), Security & Prompt Safety (grant-scoped API data), Email (messages/threads/drafts/tracking/smart compose/templates/transactional), Calendar (events/availability/recurring/conferencing), Contacts, Agent Accounts (workspaces/policies/rules/deliverability), Webhooks & Pub/Sub & SNS, Scheduler (70+ UI components), Notetaker (meeting bot setup/AI notes), Admin (grants/connectors/API keys/domains), SDKs (Node.js/Python/Ruby/Kotlin), Best Practices (rate limits, error codes).
Docs source: developer.nylas.com — skills keep checked-in rules as the working source and use external docs links as reference URLs only.
nylas-cli
Manage email, calendar, and contacts from the terminal with the Nylas CLI.
Use when: user mentions nylas init, nylas email, nylas calendar, nylas auth, nylas mcp, nylas agent, nylas tui, nylas audit.
Covers: Setup & config, authentication, email (read/send/search/AI), calendar (events/RSVP/AI scheduling), contacts, agent accounts, webhooks, inbound email, dashboard management, MCP install (Claude Desktop/Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code), AI config, audit logging, TUI/Air/demo mode.
Docs source: cli.nylas.com/docs/commands
nylas-email-templates
Write, test, and deploy Nylas email templates and workflows with an API key.
Use when: user asks to create or edit a Nylas email template, set up a workflow for booking.*, event.*, grant.*, notetaker.*, or message.* triggers, send email with a stored template, or debug a template that won’t render or a workflow that doesn’t send.
Covers: Workflow vs Send API, triggers/scope/sender/recipients, payload variables and notify_individually, strict-mode Handlebars, dates and timezones, escaping and links, email-safe HTML, multilingual templates, render testing, creating and testing workflows, sending stored templates, debugging. Example templates: nylas/workflow-email-templates.
Docs source: Templates and workflows
Give your agent its own mailbox
These skills work with any Nylas grant — including Agent Accounts, Nylas-hosted email and calendar mailboxes you provision on your own domain and drive entirely through the API. Give an AI agent an [email protected] identity that can send, receive, and RSVP without connecting a human’s account.
- Quickstart: Agent Accounts — create your first mailbox in 5 minutes
- Agent Accounts overview — what they are and when to use them
- Cookbook recipes — handle replies, multi-turn conversations, OTP extraction, and more
Install
Skills CLI
# Install all Nylas skills
npx skills add nylas/skills
# Or install individually
npx skills add nylas/skills --skill nylas-api
npx skills add nylas/skills --skill nylas-cli
npx skills add nylas/skills --skill nylas-email-templates
Claude Code Plugin
/plugin marketplace add nylas/skills
Test Locally
# Install from local path into a test project
cd /path/to/your/project
npx skills add /path/to/this/repo --agent claude-code --copy --all
# Or install globally
npx skills add /path/to/this/repo -g --agent claude-code --copy --all
Then open a new Claude Code session — skills will be available as nylas-api and nylas-cli.
Skill Structure
skills/{skill-name}/
SKILL.md # Concise rules index with doc links
AGENTS.md # Full compiled reference
CLAUDE.md # Claude Code auto-loaded context
README.md # Contributor guide
LICENSE.txt # MIT license
rules/ # Individual rule files (read on demand)
Links
License
MIT
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Install
npx skillfish add nylas/skills