A connected Gmail grant starts with an OAuth consent screen and ends with a refresh token you have to babysit; a Nylas Agent Account starts and ends with one POST request. Same API surface afterward — same messages endpoints, same webhooks, same calendar — but the provisioning story couldn't be more different, and that difference is what makes these hosted mailboxes such a natural fit for Python automation, agents, and test harnesses.
Agent Accounts are in beta, and the official quickstart gets you from nothing to a sending-and-receiving mailbox in under 5 minutes using curl. Here's the whole flow as a Python script.
Step 0: prerequisites
You need an API key (run nylas init with the CLI, or use the Dashboard) and a domain. The fast path for testing: register a *.nylas.email trial subdomain from the Dashboard — no DNS records, instantly usable. Custom domains need MX and TXT records published at your DNS provider, with automatic verification once they propagate; save that for production.
import os
