[vishrajiv]

It works surprisingly well! I thought it’d just be a read interface but it archives and marks as read like I asked. This would be useful when I commute to work.

Drafting replies would be necessary, of course.

It sounds like you have a library to make these voice apps. To my knowledge, people just use providers like Vapi or Retell. What’s the difference here?

[chrisnolet]

Thanks for trying it!

You can draft emails and reply to threads as well, actually! And if you're unsure of what to say, you can throw some hints at the agent and it'll generate a draft in your tone of voice. (The agent analyzes your past emails to match your style.)

For your question: The providers (Vapi, Retell) handle the big pieces well. My framework/DSL sits on top, helping developers manage the conversation in TypeScript.

Quick example... When you start your first session, we spin up a 'worker agent' to figure out your name, then we say something nice, and display a personalized welcome message:

  dataStore.userName = await aside(z.string(), this.emailText, `What is the user's first name?`);

  prompt(`Say something nice about ${dataStore.userName}.`);
  display(`Welcome to _Pocket_, ${dataStore.userName}.`);

The primitives are powerful. And the DSL makes it simple to wrangle conversational pathways. But my favorite part is that it's all just TypeScript, so you can use NPM packages to make your voice agents actually do things very easily.

It's very cool and I hope to share more in the future!