Dear Machine is a local client that lets you email your computer and receive agent-driven replies, turning email threads into persistent sessions that can include attachments and group conversations with humans and agents. The core argument is that email is a simple, universal interface for orchestrating agent work: use any existing email address to command a local system, add agents to group threads, and keep memory locally (backed by git) rather than in the cloud. Threads and sessions are unified, agents you already run (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OMP, etc.) can be reused, and the system supports long-running, multi-turn tasks where replies continue the session without compacting history.
Machtiani is the experimental harness beneath Dear Machine, using an iterative instructor that spawns ReAct workers to run tasks in isolated continuations; instructor, worker, and backend agents can each use different models and configs, and sandboxing is available via adapters. Installation requires building from source (Nix recommended but standard installers exist), with BYOC (bring-your-own-concierge) or a provided concierge option to configure inboxes (AgentMail, OpenMail, Sendmux) and agents. The umbrella repo links three pinned submodules, is mostly Go with TypeScript, shell and TLA+ specs, includes tests and scripts, and is MIT-licensed.
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