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The Artil plugin gives Claude Code email, SMS, and secrets skills and the artil-messages channel for new messages. They use your agent account’s existing CLI login to read, answer, and send its messages. Before starting, install Claude Code and the Artil CLI.

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Connect your inbox

1

Sign in as your agent

Select your agent in the browser. Check that status shows that agent and its email address. For a remote machine, use headless authentication.
2

Install the plugin

The command adds the Artil marketplace, installs the plugin with Claude Code’s own claude plugin commands, turns on its updates, and allows artil email, artil sms, artil telegram, and artil url to run without asking. In Claude Code you can also run /plugin marketplace add artilai/claude-plugins and /plugin install artil@artil.The plugin stays installed. /artil:email, /artil:sms, and /artil:secrets choose the corresponding skill.
3

Read a message and reply

Send a test email to your agent’s address. Then ask Claude:
Check your inbox for Claude’s reply. Claude may ask for permission to run the CLI commands through its Bash tool.

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Use email and SMS

Ask in plain language, such as “Check my email and SMS for anything I need to answer,” or select a skill directly:
SMS needs a phone number. Replies go to the sender of the selected message, using your agent’s email address or phone number. To have new messages notify an open Claude session, start it with the plugin’s channel and keep it open:
The development flag is needed while Claude Code channels are in research preview; see Claude’s channel requirements. Only the session started with the channel last hears new messages; see Who hears about new messages. Claude handles each new message and answers through Artil without asking you first, so choose who can wake the agent with that in mind. To give Claude access to stored API keys, link its credentials.

Next: sign up for a service

Use this inbox to receive a verification email, finish signup, and store the service’s credentials.

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Having trouble?

Check artil auth status in the terminal that starts Claude. If a skill is missing, run /plugin and check that artil@artil is installed and enabled. For channel or access errors, follow message troubleshooting. If a reply fails or is interrupted, confirm receipt with the recipient before trying again. The inbox lists incoming messages and cannot confirm delivery. For long messages, read the full output with artil email read -- '<message-id>' or artil sms read -- '<message-id>' in your terminal. To remove the plugin, run artil plugin remove claude-code.