Bring your work into Claude.
Claude can search your email, read a thread, check your calendar, and draft, send and book through alfred_. As you, you sign in once, and nothing is sent until you say yes.
Connect
You need an alfred_ account with at least one email or calendar connected. Then pick where you use Claude.
claude mcp add --transport http alfred https://get-alfred.ai/api/mcp- Run this once. It registers alfred_ for your user, so it is available in every project.
- Then start Claude Code, type /mcp, choose alfred and pick Authenticate. Your browser opens on get-alfred.ai; sign in if you need to and press Allow.
https://get-alfred.ai/api/mcp- Open Settings, then Connectors, and choose Add custom connector.
- Name it alfred_ and paste the URL below. Press Add, then Connect. Claude opens get-alfred.ai; sign in if you need to and press Allow.
- Custom connectors are available on paid Claude plans.
{
"mcpServers": {
"alfred": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://get-alfred.ai/api/mcp"
}
}
}- Commit this at the root of a project and everyone who opens it in Claude Code is offered alfred_. Each person still signs in as themselves; nothing about your account is in the file.
Things to ask
- What is on my calendar tomorrow, and is anything back to back?
- Find the latest thread with Maya about the venue and tell me where it stands.
- Did anyone reply to my note about the invoice this week?
- Pull the thread about the contract renewal and give me three talking points for the call.
What Claude can do
Reading is the default. Writing and sending are separate permissions you grant on purpose.
Searches every account you have connected to alfred_ (Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, IMAP) in one query, then opens a thread in full: every message, who said what, and whether you already replied. Reads a PDF or an image attachment as text. Never fetches an attachment you did not point at.
Saves a message into your real Drafts folder for you to send yourself, or sends and replies from the account you choose. Anything that leaves your mailbox shows you the message first and waits for a yes, and that check runs inside alfred_ rather than in the assistant.
alfred_ drafts replies on its own in the background. These read that queue, revise a draft's wording or subject, and clear one you do not want. Editing a draft does not send it and is not approval to send it — it stays in the queue for you to decide. They never send one.
Archives, labels, moves and marks read. A single message acts on the one you pointed at. A bulk sweep always counts the matches, shows you the number, and waits for your yes before touching anything.
Creates and edits the standing rules alfred_ applies to new mail, like archiving a newsletter or flagging a client. You see what a rule would and would not have caught before it is saved.
Reads events from your connected calendars for a day or a range, in your timezone, with attendees and locations. Finds genuinely open slots, so a proposed time is one you are actually free for.
Creates and updates events on the calendar you choose, adds a Google Meet or Teams link, and invites people. You see exactly what will be sent, and to whom, before any invitation goes out.
Reads your task lists and adds tasks, due dates and reminders, using the same timing and quiet-hours rules as the rest of alfred_. Changes several to-dos at once when you ask it to — completing, rescheduling or re-prioritising a whole batch in one step, and telling you plainly if any of them could not be changed. It cannot delete a to-do; that stays in the app. Your own lists only, never a team workspace.
Resolves a name to the address you actually use for them, with the company and history alfred_ already holds. This is what stops a reply going to last year's address.
Searches and reads Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint, extracting text only and never raw file bytes. A separate permission from email: connecting alfred_ for your inbox does not grant this.
Reads the working notes alfred_ keeps about your work, and records a new one when you tell it something worth keeping. Yours alone, and visible to you in alfred_.
Shows which email and calendar accounts you have connected (up to 6) and whether each is healthy, and hands you a one-tap link to connect another or reconnect one that lost access. It cannot connect or remove an account itself; that stays a signed-in click in alfred_.
- Nothing is sent, and no invitation goes out, until you have seen it and said yes.
- Cannot delete anything: not an email, not an event, not a to-do.
- Tidying (archive, move, mark read) acts on messages you pointed at; a bulk sweep always shows you a count first and waits for your yes.
- Cannot disconnect an account. Connecting and removing accounts stays a signed-in click in alfred_ itself.
- Cannot touch a team workspace. Your own lists and accounts only.
- You choose what to allow when you sign in. Reading is the default; writing, and sending, are separate permissions you grant on purpose.
- Never sees your provider passwords or OAuth tokens. Every call runs through alfred_, as you.
- Only the accounts you connected to alfred_. Nothing else on your machine.
Access tokens expire after an hour and are refreshed quietly. Revoke the connection at any time in alfred_ under Settings, Privacy and Security. We record which tool was called and how long it took, never the query or the contents. More in Security.
If something is off
Claude says it can't reach alfred_.
In Claude Code, type /mcp and re-authenticate alfred. In Claude Desktop or claude.ai, open Settings, Connectors, and press Connect again. Access is refreshed automatically in the background; a full re-connect is only needed after you revoke it.
Which email account does it search?
All of them. search_work fans out across every account connected to alfred_ and tells Claude which account each thread came from.
Can it send email without asking me?
No. Sending and inviting always show you the message or the invitation first and wait for you to say yes, and that check is in alfred_ itself rather than something the assistant can talk its way past. Claude also asks your permission before each call. If you would rather it never send at all, leave the sending permission unchecked when you sign in and it can still write drafts for you to send yourself.
Can it delete my email or cancel a meeting?
No. Nothing on this connection can delete an email, cancel an event, or remove a to-do. Those are deliberately not available, whatever you allow at sign-in. Tidying is different: if you allow it, Claude can archive, move and label messages, and a bulk sweep always shows you a count first and waits for your yes.
Some Outlook threads come back short.
For Microsoft 365 accounts, message bodies can currently arrive as previews rather than the full text. We are working on it; Gmail threads are complete.
How do I disconnect?
In alfred_, open Settings, then Privacy and Security, and revoke the entry named Claude under Connect AI assistants. Claude loses access immediately. You can also remove the connector on the Claude side.