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IDEA SIGNALS
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Hacker News · Show HN AI
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2026-05-21 16:42:34
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★ 5/10 — radar 50

`Agent.Email`: curl-based signup flow for AI agents

Agents get a restricted inbox first, then unlock it through a human OTP reply. Useful as a product-design signal: agent-native onboarding needs CLI-first UX, rate limits, and human ownership.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. The flow starts with curl; browser requests get HTML, agents get Markdown. Machine-readable onboarding is treated as the default surface.
  2. Unclaimed inboxes can email only their owner, capped at 10 emails/day, with IP rate limits. Trust is scoped before expansion.
  3. A human replies with an OTP to claim the agent, creating a 1:1 agent-to-human mapping. Many-to-one is the next obvious need.
  4. CLI formatting and shorter message IDs changed after agents struggled with mixed delimiters and hallucinated long IDs. Agent UX differs from human UX.
Originalnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225596Read original →

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