The Lifecycle of an Agent Identity: Provision to Teardown

Short summary

Nylas Agent Accounts provides structured lifecycle management for AI agent email identities—domain registration, provisioning via one API call, operational auditing via mailbox history, and deliberate teardown. Best practices: isolate agent reputation with dedicated subdomains (agents.yourcompany.com), pair creation to deletion to prevent zombie accounts, audit via built-in email trails (no log pipeline needed). Caveat: free plan retention is 30 days for inbox, 7 for spam.

• •Provision agent identities on registered domains with one API call; configure domain, workspace, and optional app password for IMAP access
• •Audit live identities via mailbox history, event streams (message.created, message.send_success, message.bounce_detected), and rule evaluations
• •Teardown deliberately when work ends; pair creation to deletion and use staging/production domain separation to prevent credential sprawl

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