The agent ecosystem course
  • 0Before you start
  • 1Claude Code
  • 2The mental model
  • 3Map your ecosystem
  • 4The brief
  • 5The connectors
  • 6The runbooks
  • 7Working hours
  • 8The ecosystem
  • 9The backup
  • 10Sharing skills
  • 11Getting found

The stages

  • 0Before you start
  • 1Claude Code
  • 2The mental model
  • 3Map your ecosystem
  • 4The brief
  • 5The connectors
    • 5.01What a connector is
    • 5.02Where your information goes
    • 5.03Connecting the calendar, and more
    • 5.04Ask first
    • 5.05Telling the brief what it can reach
    • 5.06The first job, catch up your inbox
    • 5.07Ready when, what goes wrong, and homework
    • 5.08[BONUS]Have it read everything and learn you
    • 5.09[BONUS]Adding a connector that is not on the list
    • 5.10[BONUS]If you have more than one inbox
    • 5.11[BONUS]Drafts only, so it never sends an email as you
  • 6The runbooks
  • 7Working hours
  • 8The ecosystem
  • 9The backup
  • 10Sharing skills
  • 11Getting found
BACK TO THE COURSE

Stage five, session two

The connectors

The agent knows who it is, and now it gets its own logins to your calendar, your inbox and your files, so the first document about your work is drawn from what it can see rather than what you pasted.

5.10[BONUS]

If you have more than one inbox

At the moment you can only have one Gmail or one Outlook connected to Claude, and one calendar.

That is annoying if your work runs across more than one, so I use Composio, which holds as many accounts of each as you have and hands Claude all of them at once, and it is not an advert but a tool I found that works.

Built in

Claude
  • Work inbox
  • Personal inboxnot connected
  • Old company inboxnot connected
  • Brand inboxnot connected

One inbox, and the rest it cannot see

Through Composio

Claude
Composio
  • Work inbox
  • Personal inbox
  • Old company inbox
  • Brand inbox

Every inbox, and hundreds more applications, down one wire

First, make an account at composio.dev.

The free plan is plenty for this, and it needs no card.

Then connect Composio to Claude, once.

Paste this into Claude Code and it installs Composio and logs you in, so there are no commands for you to run, and a browser window opens for you to approve the login with the account you just made.

Connect Composio to Claude
Install the Composio CLI with curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | sh, then run composio login.

Then go back to Composio and connect your inboxes.

On dashboard.composio.dev you connect each inbox once, and every one you add there shows up in Claude without you touching Claude again.

  1. 1Composio's dashboard

    GmailConnect

    OutlookConnect

    Google CalendarConnect

    Open For You, find Gmail and click Connect

  2. 2The sign-in

    Choose an account

    Your work inbox

    Your personal inbox

    Use another account

    Pick the inbox on purpose, because whichever you pick is the one it gets

  3. 3Then the next one

    GmailWork

    GmailPersonal

    GmailConnect

    Click Connect on Gmail again for each inbox, and label each one

Last, ask Claude what it can reach.

It should list every inbox by its address, and if one is missing, connect it again on Composio and ask again.

What can you reach
What can you reach through Composio? List every account by its address and what it is, and do not read or change anything in them yet.

It is not only email.

Composio has connectors for hundreds of applications, so when something you use is not on Claude’s own list, look there first and connect it the same way, and mine has five mailboxes, four calendars, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Stripe on it.

It does hold access to your accounts on its servers.

It keeps that access encrypted and drops an account the moment you delete its connection, and it had a security incident in May 2026 that it published a full account of, with outside firms checking the fixes afterwards.

Read its privacy page and decide whether that sits inside your own comfort, and I would do the built-in connectors first.

The agent ecosystem course

If you have more than one inbox

This is part 5.10 of the course. Start it free and it opens straight away, with no password.

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