Title: primitive: email for agents
Open Graph Title: primitive: email for agents
X Title: primitive: email for agents
Description: Primitive is email infrastructure for AI agents: universal email addresses, hosted functions, and transactional email over the protocol every business already uses. It also ships a ChatGPT app — an in-agent MCP App UI built on the OpenAI Apps SDK that renders your inbox inside the agent host.
Open Graph Description: Primitive is email infrastructure for AI agents: universal email addresses, hosted functions, and transactional email over the protocol every business already uses. It also ships a ChatGPT app — an in-agent MCP App UI built on the OpenAI Apps SDK that renders your inbox inside the agent host.
X Description: Primitive is email infrastructure for AI agents: universal email addresses, hosted functions, and transactional email over the protocol every business already uses. It also ships a ChatGPT app — an in-agent MCP App UI built on the OpenAI Apps SDK that renders your inbox inside the agent host.
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Domain: primitive.dev
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