The agent retrieves specific email threads and extracts text from attached PDFs or images to answer a query.
The agent uses search_work to locate relevant emails across all connected accounts. It then uses get_thread and get_email_body to read the full conversation. If attachments are mentioned, it uses read_attachment to extract text from PDFs or images, ensuring it only fetches files the user pointed at.
- Category: Productivity and planning
- Effect: Read-only
- MCP servers: Alfred MCP (https://koskamo.com/explore/alfred-mcp)
- Source: alfred_ MCP | Bring your email and calendar into any AI (https://get-alfred.ai/mcp)
- Source quote: "search_work, list_inbox, get_thread, get_email_body, list_folders, read_attachment Find and read email 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…"
- Playbook page: https://koskamo.com/explore/use-cases/search-email-and-read-attachments
Prompt: Find the last email about the Q3 invoice and tell me what the PDF attachment says.