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Jayakumark

Looks nice, but little hesitant to give access to emails. What model is being used on backend ?

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We use Claude/OpenAI right now with Groq for tool routing!

I'd say maybe to get comfortable try out the non email features first, but we don't have access to any of your data.

Or an alt/throwaway email...

ooh good idea!

How do you not have access to the data if I give you access to my email?

The agent does!

We don't, and agent pulls in data only when executing queries

Does the agent run on hardware you control?

Runs on AWS for now!

So you have access to the users Gmail, not "the agent".

Hmm ig yeah I can be more granular.

Yeah we store our user credentials on our side and manage them. Along with refreshing tokens and so forth

This is horrifying. Everyone should be horrified.

I think they mean OAuth credentials (all these APIs use OAuth unless you're doing something terribly wrong).

Yep we're using Oauth, so it's easy for a user to disconnect.

So you do have access to all the data. It's not really a great look if you're lying about what you have access to, and this is a technical audience, it's not like we don't know how agents work.

Sad state of current launch HNs where OP don't even know they are talking to hackers, not people that get easily impressed.

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