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Give Your AI Coding Agent Superpowers — Nylas Skills for Email, Calendar & Contacts
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Give Your AI Coding Agent Superpowers — Nylas Skills for Email, Calendar & Contacts

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Your AI coding agent can write React components and debug Python — but can it send an email? Read a calendar? Look up a contact? If you're building apps that touch email, calendar, or contacts, the answer matters. Until now, wiring up those integrations meant hand-rolling API calls, managing OAuth flows, and hoping your agent doesn't hallucinate a curl command that deletes your inbox. Nylas Skills fixes this. It's an open-source skill pack that teaches AI coding agents how to build with the Nylas platform — covering email, calendar, and contacts across Gmail, Outlook, Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud, and IMAP providers. What Are Agent Skills? Skills are structured knowledge files that AI coding agents load at session start. Think of them as expert cheat sheets — they tell your agent what APIs exist, what flags to use, what patterns to follow, and where to find the latest docs. Unlike fine-tuning or custom training, skills work with the agents you already use: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Co

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