Nylas Skills

Agent Skills for building with Nylas — the infrastructure that powers communications

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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

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 agent@yourdomain.com 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

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

• Nylas API Docs
• Nylas CLI Docs
• skills.sh
• Agent Skills Spec

License

MIT