# extension-email

Enables agents to send transactional and service emails from Motoko backend canisters. Useful for notifications and order receipts.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 28100 installs · ★ 2
- Author: caffeinelabs
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/caffeinelabs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/extension-email

## What it does

This skill guides the agent in using the prefabricated `mo:caffeineai-email/emailClient.mo` module within Motoko canisters. It handles transactional messages like order confirmations and one-off notifications. It is strictly not intended for marketing campaigns or verification flows.

The component relies on the `sendServiceEmail` function, sending an individual email to each recipient. Results arrive as a `SendResult` type with either `#ok` or `#err`. Failed dispatches never throw exceptions, returning gateway or transport errors as `#err(Text)`.

Operation requires a Caffeine AI subscription on plus or pro tiers and the `caffeineai-email` package pinned to `~0.4.0`. Starting with this version, dispatches route through a mail gateway configured via `INTEGRATIONS_GATEWAY_URL` and `INTEGRATIONS_GATEWAY_API_KEY`. Missing deploy credentials will cause the call to fail immediately with `#err`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add caffeinelabs/skills --skill extension-email -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/extension-email/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add caffeinelabs/skills --skill extension-email -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add caffeinelabs/skills --skill extension-email -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install caffeinelabs/skills extension-email
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add caffeinelabs/skills --skill extension-email -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/caffeinelabs/skills --path skills/extension-email
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add caffeinelabs/skills --skill extension-email -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/caffeinelabs/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/extension-email/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- send order confirmation emails from a Motoko backend
- deliver transactional notifications to individual recipients
- handle email dispatch errors via SendResult without throwing exceptions

## Example prompts
- Write a function to send order confirmation emails using `sendServiceEmail` from `mo:caffeineai-email/emailClient`.
- Handle the `SendResult` return type for service emails in the Motoko backend canister.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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````text
---
name: extension-email
description: Support for sending service/transactional emails. Don't use this for sending marketing emails or verification emails.
version: 0.4.1
compatibility:
  mops:
    caffeineai-email: "~0.4.0"
caffeineai-subscription: [plus, pro]
---

# Email — Service/Transactional
Service/transactional email extension for [Caffeine AI](https://caffeine.ai?utm_source=caffeine-skill&utm_medium=referral).

## Overview

This skill adds support for sending service and transactional emails from the backend canister. Use `sendServiceEmail` for order confirmations, notifications, and similar one-off emails.

# Backend

This component is for sending service/transactional emails. 

There is the prefabricated module `mo:caffeineai-email/emailClient.mo` which cannot be modified.

- Use the sendServiceEmail function. 
- Each recipient is sent an individual email
- It returns a SendResult which is #ok if the email is sent successfully otherwise #err(error) with the error text. 
- A failed send never throws. Every failure, a gateway error included, comes back as `#err`.

```mo:caffeineai-email/emailClient.mo
module {
  public type SendResult = {
    #ok;
    #err : Text;
  };

  public func sendServiceEmail(
    fromUsername : Text,
    recipients : [Text],
    subject : Text,
    htmlBody : Text,
  ) : async SendResult;
};
```

Usage for `sendServiceEmail`:

```motoko filepath=src/backend/main.mo
import Runtime "mo:core/Runtime";
import EmailClient "mo:caffeineai-email/emailClient";

actor {
  public func sendOrderConfirmationEmail(recipientEmailAddress : Text, username : Text, orderReference : Text) : async () {
    let result = await EmailClient.sendServiceEmail(
      "no-reply",
      [recipientEmailAddress],
      "Order " # orderReference # " confirmed",
      "Hello " # username # ",\nYour order " # orderReference # " has been confirmed. Your items will ship tomorrow.",
    );
    switch (result) {
      case (#ok) {};
      case (#err(error)) {
        Runtime.trap("Failed to send order confirmation email: " # error);
      };
    };
  };
};
```

## Upgrading from the previous version

An app built with `caffeineai-email` 0.3.x re-pins with `mops add caffeineai-email@0.4.0`. `sendServiceEmail` and `sendRawEmail` keep their signatures. Every send now goes through the mail gateway with the settings the platform injects on every deploy (`INTEGRATIONS_GATEWAY_URL` / `INTEGRATIONS_GATEWAY_API_KEY`); the transport canister and `INTEGRATIONS_CANISTER_ID` are no longer used, and a send without those settings returns `#err` instead of falling back. Apps that use verification, marketing or calendar email follow the upgrade sections of those skills.
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