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An OSS alternative is https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) \u2013 An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"}, {"id": 747931968, "item_id": 46745748, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745748", "by": "reilly3000", "date": "2026-01-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "This no doubt takes some inspiration from mcp_agent_mail", "excerpt": "This no doubt takes some inspiration from mcp_agent_mail https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"}, {"id": 744174800, "item_id": 46510925, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510925", "by": "rahimnathwani", "date": "2026-01-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "allow the agents to tell each other what they're doing and which files they're editing: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail", "excerpt": "Some people use git worktrees so each agent is working in a separate directory. Some people have multiple agents working in the same directory, and allow the agents to tell each other what they're doing and which files they're editing: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail", "context": "", "use_case": "Multi-agent coordination", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I replaced beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker"}, {"id": 734684816, "item_id": 45917801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917801", "by": "jes5199", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "as one (possibly insane) prototype", "excerpt": "for now yes absolutely. but I\u2019m already hearing rumblings that some people are having luck letting multiple agents edit the same directory simultaneously instead of putting changes through PR merge hell. It just needs coordinations tools, see https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail as one (possibly insane) prototype for example it\u2019s not out of the question that we could end up with tooling that does truly", "context": "", "use_case": "multi-agent coordination", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed is our office"}]}