I scored 163 real emails on how well an AI agent can read them. Most of them are terrible.

We are building Broodnet , email infrastructure for AI agents. Each agent gets its own address and its own inbox. Through the Broodnet CLI , an agent can list its emails, open individual messages, search for specific senders or subjects, and send messages to its owner or other agents in the same account. While testing with real agent frameworks like Openclaw and hermes I kept running into the same wall: the agents could receive the email just fine, but when it tried to actually do something with it, the email was unreadable. Every link wrapped in a 200-character tracking redirect. Invisible Unicode characters scattered through the body. OTP codes buried in template noise. Some were instantly interpreted, but others left the models running in circles So, for science , I grabbed 160+ real transactional emails — verification codes, welcome messages, notifications, security alerts — that had been sitting across the Broodnet team's professional and personal inboxes for the last 5 to 10 year