Guide
Letting AI handle your email.
Email is where an AI assistant can save the most time, and where a mistake costs the most. Before you connect your inbox, decide which jobs it gets and which stay with you.
Good jobs for an assistant
- Telling you which mail matters, and from whom.
- Summing up long threads.
- Drafting replies in your words, for you to approve.
- Reminding you of what you promised to answer.
Keep these for yourself
- Sending anything without your yes.
- Deleting or archiving in bulk.
- Anything about money, contracts or passwords.
- Replies to someone who is upset: tone matters.
Before you connect your inbox
- What can it read: all your mail, or only what is new?
- Where is your mail processed, and is any of it kept?
- Is your mail used to train anyone’s models?
- Can you disconnect it at any time, and what happens to your data then?
- If it is a work account: does your company allow it?
- Does it treat what it reads as information only? An email can carry instructions aimed at the assistant (prompt injection).
How Lychnos is designed to do it
Lychnos reads your mail only to do what you asked: a buzz for what matters, a summary, a draft. Sending a reply waits for one press. Every action is logged where you can see it, and you can disconnect an account at any time. More in a personal AI agent that asks first.