> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agent-loadout.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Agent Loadout: Inboxes, Vaults, and Machines for AI Agents

> Give every AI agent its own email address, credential vault, and Linux machine — accessible via MCP or REST, owned by your organization.

Agent Loadout equips AI agents with the persistent identity they need to act independently: a dedicated inbox for receiving and sending email, a vault for storing and retrieving credentials securely, and an optional Ubuntu machine for running code. You connect any MCP-compatible client — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or ChatGPT — or use the REST API directly. Everything the agent accumulates stays with your organization, not scattered across individual API keys or developer machines.

## Why agents need a loadout

AI agents that only live inside a chat window hit a wall the moment they need to interact with the real world. Signing up for a service requires a real email address. Authenticating to an API requires a stored credential. Running untrusted code requires an isolated machine. Without persistent infrastructure, agents depend on humans to relay each of these — or worse, they handle secrets in the chat transcript where they can leak.

Agent Loadout solves this by giving each agent a durable, organization-owned slot that persists across sessions, clients, and team members.

## Three feature pillars

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  <Card title="Inbox" icon="inbox">
    Every agent gets a dedicated email address. It can receive mail, send and reply to messages, manage threads, and extract verification codes — all through MCP tools or the REST API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Vault" icon="lock">
    Credentials, passwords, API keys, and TOTP secrets are stored encrypted in the agent's vault. The agent reads what it needs when it needs it; values never appear in the chat transcript.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Machines" icon="server">
    Agents can spin up fresh Ubuntu VMs, run shell commands, expose ports over HTTPS, and stop the machine when the task is done — all billed by the second and returned to the pool.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Security model

Agent Loadout is built around three principles that keep automation safe at scale.

**The organization owns everything.** Agents, inboxes, tokens, and history belong to the organization — not to whoever created them. Members can rotate tokens, inspect history, and revoke access at any time from the dashboard.

**Tokens are scoped to one agent and one set of capabilities.** A token can reach exactly one agent and only the capabilities you grant it: `email:read`, `email:send`, `vault:metadata`, `vault:use`, `vault:write`, `wallet:read`, `wallet:pay`, `compute:read`, `compute:run`, or `compute:admin`. A token can never reach billing, another agent's mailbox, or capabilities not explicitly granted.

**Mail is untrusted input.** Every inbound message is screened before the agent can read it. HTML is sanitized and remote content is blocked. Messages that look like prompt-injection attempts arrive with a warning; blocked messages wait in Quarantine for a human member to review. Agents must never treat email content as instructions from the platform.

<Note>
  Pay-as-you-go sending is off by default. An owner must set a spend cap before production sending can exceed plan limits. Sender trust limits apply regardless of your plan or budget.
</Note>

## Where to go next

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Create your first agent, issue a token, and connect Claude Code in five steps.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Connect a Client" icon="plug" href="/connecting-a-client">
    Connect Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, ChatGPT, or the REST API to your agent.
  </Card>
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