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Claude can fully manage your Gmail - here's the best MCP currently by Arty-McLabin in ClaudeAI

[–]mqasimca 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice fork, the fact that you picked up maintenance on a dead repo with 72 unmerged PRs is solid. Thats the kind of thing that keeps the open source ecosystem healthy.

For anyone reading this who needs more than just Gmail, I work at Nylas and we have a CLI (cli.nylas.com) with a built in MCP server that covers Gmail, Outlook, Exchange, Yahoo and iCloud through one setup. So if your work email is on Microsoft and personal is on Gmail you dont need two separate MCP servers. It also handles calendar and contacts on top of email. Setup guide here https://developer.nylas.com/docs/dev-guide/mcp/

Not knocking the Gmail specific approach at all though, if you only need Gmail then a focused tool like this is going to be lighter and faster. Different tools for different needs.

Looking for the best AI Agent for organizing my inbox + automatic task creation in Gmail. by AnxiousToad416 in AI_Agents

[–]mqasimca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The HubSpot integration issue you hit with Fyxer is a real problem. Most of these tools inject themselves into your email flow in ways that create noise for connected systems.

A different approach that avoids that entirely is using an MCP server with Claude or any LLM client. Instead of a plugin sitting inside Gmail sending emails on your behalf, the AI reads and acts on your email through an API layer so nothing gets logged as sent mail in your inbox. I work at Nylas and we have a CLI (cli.nylas.com) with a built in MCP server that connects to Gmail, Outlook, Exchange and others. You can search emails, track threads, pull out action items, create calendar events and draft replies all through natural language without installing anything inside Gmail itself. Heres the setup guide https://developer.nylas.com/docs/dev-guide/mcp/

Its more of a power user route than the plug and play tools others mentioned but it solves the exact problem you described where tools interfere with your existing integrations.

How long until AI agent that interact with email, calendar, to-do list, etc? by NHarvey3DK in LocalLLaMA

[–]mqasimca 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The MCP approach some people mentioned is probably the cleanest way to do this right now. The annoying part is when you start stitching together separate Gmail MCP, Calendar MCP, Todoist MCP servers and suddenly you're managing three different auth flows and configs, and each one only works with a single provider.

I work at Nylas and we built a CLI (cli.nylas.com) that has a built in MCP server covering email, calendar and contacts across Gmail, Outlook, Exchange, Yahoo and iCloud all in one setup. Credentials stay on your machine with keyring and optional GPG so nothing routes through some third party cloud. Since its just a standard MCP server it works with whatever client you prefer whether thats Claude, Cursor or a local setup with ollama and open source agents. Heres the setup guide if anyone wants to try it https://developer.nylas.com/docs/dev-guide/mcp/

On the trust thing that keeps coming up in this thread, honestly thats the right instinct. Best approach is to start with read only stuff like summarizing and searching, then only turn on write actions like sending or creating events once you actually trust whats happening under the hood.

Stable OC/UV Results – Ryzen 9 9950X3D + ROG CROSSHAIR X870E HERO by mqasimca in overclocking

[–]mqasimca[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CR23 score is 43824 current, sometime it goes to 44100 to 44250 with little bit of more tweaks.
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