AI-Powered Email: Building an Outlook Automation Agent
Email is broken. Not the technology - the experience. I have 18 email accounts across work, teaching, personal, and consulting contexts. Every morning starts with the same ritual: open each inbox, scan for urgent items, delete the noise, maybe respond to a few. Repeat. I built an AI agent to fix this. The Architecture The system has three layers: Outlook MCP Server - A Model Context Protocol server that exposes Outlook operations as AI-callable tools Outlook Skill - A Claude Code skill with workflows for common email tasks Email Organizer Agent - Higher-level automation for inbox cleanup and organization Why Outlook COM API? I chose Outlook’s COM API over cloud APIs (Graph, Gmail) for several reasons: ...