Four steps, thirteen prompts. You paste them into the assistant you have already connected to your mail, against your own mailbox. Nothing is collected here and no account is needed. At the end you have a written account of what your assistant can reach, what you meant to authorise, and the gap between the two.
Each step is a handful of prompts you paste in one at a time. You can stop after the first one and still be ahead, which is why it is first.
Ask the assistant to enumerate its own mailbox tools. Most people have never seen the list, and the list is longer than the tile that sold it.
about 5 minutesIt drafts a mandate in three lists — wanted, refused, never mentioned — and you correct it. The correction is almost always downward.
about 5 minutesThe gap between the two, written down as a document rather than felt as a worry. This is the part that did not exist before you started.
about 5 minutesThe honest ending: a written policy is an expectation, and an expectation is not a control. The step tells you which of your lines anything actually enforces.
about 5 minutesStart here if you only do one thing.
Open the assistant you have connected to your mail and paste the first prompt. It takes a minute and it changes the conversation, because almost nobody has seen the list before.
The same three a paid behaviour policy is built from. Yours will be rougher and it will be about your deployment, which is the part that matters.
Everything the assistant can reach in your mailbox: the tools it holds, what each one does, and what it has already used. Longer than the product description, every time we have looked.
What you actually wanted it for, in three lists. You already know this — it takes minutes, and it is the only part nobody else can write for you.
What it can do that you never asked for, split into what you would have refused and what you never thought to mention, with what stands in the way of each. This is the finding.
We would rather you read that here than discover it later. The prompts ask the assistant about itself, so what comes back is a self report — a claim, not a measurement, until a log held outside the agent agrees with it.
The top two belong to somebody else and only ever grow. The bottom two are yours, and they are usually unwritten — which is the whole reason the gap is invisible.
| Layer | Whose it is | What it can and cannot express |
|---|---|---|
| The platform's scopes | the mail platform | fixed and coarse. It cannot bound by label, by correspondent, by thread, by topic or by sensitivity |
| The connector's tools | the assistant's vendor | what you can actually reach. Narrower than the scopes, and attached to your account rather than to this conversation |
| Your mandate | you | the job you meant, and how your mailbox is organised. The only layer that knows a task list from a backlog |
| Your obligations | your organisation, and the law | the part that is not yours to authorise: other people's correspondence, sitting in your inbox |
The prompts are a few days old. If one returns something odd, if a step assumes a tool you do not have, if the mandate draft is wrong in a way we should have anticipated — that is the most useful thing you can send us, and more useful than a compliment.
Everything below is optional, and none of it is needed to get value out of the twenty minutes above.
One behaviour policy per deployment shape, each an encrypted vault whose read key is printed on purpose. Find the one nearest your deployment and read it against what your agent told you.
Read → Free · read What an Agent Behaviour Policy isThe four objects, the twenty-three primitives, the four barriers and the one test that separates a control from a rule in prose. One deployment worked end to end.
Read → The levels Where it goes if you want it correctedFour levels: the pack as a download, a living vault you hold the keys to, that vault corrected for your deployment by a named professional, or the same with two sessions and a signature.
Read → Workflow · abp.sgit.ai The Gmail promptsThe four steps and thirteen prompts themselves, with what each one is for and what a good answer looks like. Nothing is collected there either.
Open ↗Open the assistant connected to your mail, paste the first prompt, and see the list. If it is shorter than you feared, that is worth knowing too — and it takes a minute to find out.