Track Every Action Your AI Agent Takes — Audit Logs, Auth Management & Compliance for CLI Automation

Your AI agent just sent 47 emails. Which ones? To whom? At what time? If you can't answer those questions, you have an accountability gap. The Nylas CLI has built-in audit logging that records every command execution — timestamps, arguments, exit codes, and who invoked it (human or AI agent). Combined with granular auth management, you get full control over what your automation can access and a complete paper trail of what it did. Why Audit Logging Matters SOC 2 compliance requires logging access to customer data. AI agent safety requires tracking autonomous actions. CI/CD debugging requires knowing exactly what commands ran. The CLI's audit system handles all three. Set Up Audit Logging Initialize nylas audit init creates the log directory and default config: nylas audit init --enable Configure retention (default 90 days) and max file size (default 50 MB) during init, or set them later. Enable/Disable Logging nylas audit logs enable starts recording: nylas audit logs enable nylas audi