How do I let an AI agent answer my support tickets without giving it access to my inbox?
The accepted answer
Use a helpdesk draft queue, not inbox OAuth.
Setup: put DeskCrew (or similar) on your site with a widget key. Customer messages become tickets. An agent calls draft_reply over x402 and writes into your approval queue. A human hits send, or a rule auto-sends only after checks you define.
What the agent can see: the ticket thread, tags, and published knowledge-base articles for that desk. What it cannot see: your Gmail/Outlook inbox, other customers’ mailboxes, calendar, or password vault. It never needs IMAP/SMTP credentials.
Concrete flow: customer chats → ticket → agent drafts → human or rule approves → only then does a reply leave. No inbox access required for drafting.
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