The email infrastructure
for autonomous compliance monitoring.
Developers building compliance agents need primitives to scan email threads, flag policy violations, and maintain audit-ready logs. Mailgent provides the email API and encrypted vault so your agent can monitor all communications and enforce compliance rules continuously.
API Primitives used
mail.list_messagesScan communications
List messages across the monitored inbox. Filter by date range, sender, and label to scope compliance reviews precisely.
mail.get_threadReview full threads
Load complete conversation threads for context-aware compliance analysis. Understand the full exchange, not just isolated messages.
mail.update_labelsFlag violations
Label threads with compliance status — compliant, needs-review, violation-detected. Route flagged items to reviewers.
vault.storeStore audit data
Save compliance findings, reviewer notes, remediation records, and evidence snapshots in the encrypted vault for long-term retention.
Manual compliance review cannot keep pace with email volume.
Regulated industries require ongoing monitoring of business communications — financial services, healthcare, legal, and government contractors all face strict requirements. Compliance teams review email threads for prohibited language, unauthorized disclosures, and policy violations. Doing this manually means sampling a fraction of total communications and hoping nothing slips through.
Developers building compliance agents need email primitives to scan every message, analyze thread context, and flag violations. Mailgent provides mail.list_messages for scanning, mail.get_thread for context, mail.update_labels for flagging, and vault.store for audit-ready record keeping.
How to build it.
mail.list_messagesScan communications
Your agent periodically scans the monitored inbox using mail.list_messages, pulling all messages since the last review. It processes every message, not just a sample.
mail.get_threadAnalyze for violations
The agent loads full thread context with mail.get_thread and analyzes content against your compliance rules — prohibited terms, unauthorized recipients, missing disclaimers.
mail.update_labelsFlag and document
Violations are labeled with mail.update_labels for immediate reviewer attention. Findings, evidence, and remediation steps are stored in the encrypted vault for audit-ready documentation.
Example prompt
“Review all outbound emails from the past 24 hours. Flag any that mention pricing without the required disclaimer. Label violations as 'compliance-review' and store a summary of each finding in the vault.”
What developers build.
Financial communications review
Build agents that scan broker-dealer emails for unauthorized investment advice, forward-looking statements, or missing disclosures required by SEC and FINRA.
Data privacy monitoring
Build agents that detect PII or PHI shared via email without proper encryption, flag the thread for review, and immediately notify the data protection officer.
Regulatory filing verification
Build agents that monitor outbound communications to regulatory bodies, ensuring all required documents are attached, formatting is correct, and submission deadlines are met.
Policy enforcement
Build agents that check every outbound email against company communication policies — approved disclaimers, required signature blocks, BCC rules, and external recipient restrictions.
Why not use a compliance platform?
Compliance platforms are expensive, rigid, and built for keyword matching. They flag false positives constantly and miss context-dependent violations that require understanding the full thread. Customizing rules means navigating a proprietary UI, not writing code.
Mailgent gives you the raw primitives. mail.list_messages and mail.get_thread provide access to every message. Your agent applies your logic — keyword rules, LLM-based analysis, or custom classifiers. You build the compliance engine, Mailgent provides the data pipeline.
Encrypted audit vault
Compliance findings stored in AES-256-GCM encrypted vault. Tamper-evident records for regulators.
Read-only monitoring
Compliance agents can read and label but cannot modify or delete messages. Immutable communication records.
Complete access logs
Every message accessed and label applied is logged with timestamps. Demonstrable audit trail for examiners.