microsoft-365 and google-workspace request Mail.Send / gmail.send, but no agent exposes a send-mail command

[pawellisowski]

The gap

microsoft-365 and google-workspace both request send-mail scopes at connect time, but no installed agent exposes a command that sends mail. The consent is provisioned and then unusable.

Verified by execution (aware 0.132.0)

$ aware search mail
'mail' — 4 matches across 2 agent(s):

bluebeam-v1 (2):
  projects-api-invite-project → Invite user to project by email
  sessions-api-invite-session → Invite user to Studio Session by email

rhino-7 (2):
  field-dictionary-set-tag → ... THIS IS NOW OBSOLETE ...
  field-dictionary-try-get-tag → ... THIS IS NOW OBSOLETE ...

aware search email returns the same four. Neither is a mail-send command: the Bluebeam pair invite a user to a Bluebeam project/session, and the Rhino pair are unrelated (and obsolete).

But the consent is already there

cli/src/auth/config.rs requests these by default:

• microsoft-365 → Mail.Read, Mail.Send (plus Calendars, Teams, Files, Sites, Tasks)
• google-workspace → gmail.readonly, gmail.send (plus Drive, Sheets, Calendar, Slides, Forms, Tasks)

The comment above the M365 block describes these as "Delegated scopes covering the curated command surface (drive/excel, SharePoint lists, mail, calendar, Teams, Planner)" — so mail is intended, but the command surface for it does not exist.

And the credential status is already reportable:

$ aware connect --list --json
[ { "integration": "microsoft-365", "status": "missing", "flows": ["device-code"], ... },
  { "integration": "google-workspace", "status": "missing", ... } ]

Observed vs expected

Observed: a user connects Microsoft 365, grants Mail.Send, and there is no way for an app or workflow to send a message.

Expected: a curated send command on both integrations — enough to send a plain-text or HTML body to named recipients, with optional attachments, e.g. microsoft-365 mail-send-message / google-workspace gmail-send-message.

Why it matters downstream

floless.app is building RFI records (pawellisowski/floless.app#1090). An RFI is a question addressed to somebody — the EOR, a fabricator — so sending it is the natural next step, from the user's own connected mailbox rather than a service address. The credential check (aware connect --list --json) and the consent are both in place; only the verb is missing, so the app has to fall back to "compose the body and let the user paste it into their own mail client".

Requesting a scope at connect time that nothing can use is also a consent smell: users grant Mail.Send for a capability that does not exist.

Scope note

Attachments matter for this use case (an RFI often carries the sheet extract), but a body-and-recipients send would already be useful on its own.

[pawellisowski]

🤖 Picked up by the morning issue routine on cloud-issue-routine-aware at 2026-09-05T05:20:00Z.

Another machine reading this issue will skip it while this claim is live (it expires after 14h). The claim is released when the run finishes, whatever the outcome.

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[pawellisowski]

🤖 Morning issue routine on cloud-issue-routine-aware: claim released — fix merged as #497, issue left open for QA.

The premise here was wrong, and that is itself the bug

The commands this issue asks for already exist. Verified by execution against a build of main:

microsoft-365.outlook.mail.send	Send an email. Plain text or HTML, with optional CC / BCC.
microsoft-365.outlook.mail.send-with-attachment	Send an email with file attachments…
google-workspace.gmail.send	Send an email via Gmail. Plain text or HTML body, optional cc / bcc / attachments.

All three are declared in their manifests (microsoft-365/manifest.yaml:223,256; google-workspace/manifest.yaml:134) with full command docs on disk, and shipped long before this report. So Mail.Send / gmail.send are not consent for a capability that does not exist, and there is no consent smell — the scopes are backed by real verbs.

Why aware search mail said otherwise

aware search reads <aware_home>/agents/ — the installed agents. aware agent search reads the registry catalogue. Two verbs one word apart, searching two different corpora, and nothing in the output said which. The machine that ran the search simply did not have microsoft-365 or google-workspace installed, so it returned the four unrelated bluebeam/rhino hits and looked authoritative doing it.

Reproduced both ways with the same binary:

$ aware search mail                     # neither agent installed
(no matches for 'mail')

$ aware search mail                     # both installed
'mail' — 6 matches across 2 agent(s):
  gmail.send → Send an email via Gmail…
  outlook.mail.send → Send an email. Plain text or HTML, with optional CC / BCC.
  …

$ aware agent search mail                # the catalogue route — found them all along
4 matches for "mail":
  google-workspace — Google Workspace       matched: keywords, description, command
  microsoft-365 — Microsoft 365 (Graph API) matched: command

What was fixed (#497)

Rather than build duplicate mail verbs, #497 fixes the discovery defect that produced this report — a capability question answered "no" by a command that never looked at the corpus holding the answer. aware search now names its scope on every result (hit as well as miss — this report was filed off a search that found things) and points at the catalogue verb, with searched_agents / scope in --json so floless.app and other consumers can distinguish "nothing does this" from "nothing here does this".

Codex reviewed four rounds and found four further defects in the fix itself, all reproduced and fixed at root. CI green, 1598 tests passing.

For QA

Nothing to install or migrate. Worth confirming on a real machine:

1. aware search mail with the two agents not installed now tells you the catalogue exists rather than implying mail-send does not.
2. aware agent install microsoft-365 then aware search mail finds outlook.mail.send — i.e. the original ask is already satisfiable today.
3. For the floless.app RFI use case (pawellisowski/floless.app#1090): outlook.mail.send-with-attachment is the verb for sending an RFI with the sheet extract, and no AWARE change is needed to unblock it.

Labelling qa-ready — a merged fix is ready to test, not verified.

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[pawellisowski]

Shipped in v0.134.0 (npm @aware-aeco/cli@0.134.0) — update and test; close on pass or label qa-rejected if it fails.

Note on scope: the investigation found the send-mail commands were never missing. microsoft-365 ships outlook.mail.send and outlook.mail.send-with-attachment, and google-workspace ships gmail.send — all since v0.12.0 (bcf22ec), well before this issue was filed. What failed was discovery: aware search reads the INSTALLED agents under <aware_home>/agents/, while aware agent search reads the registry catalogue, and nothing in the output said which. The capability question was answered "no" by the verb that never looked at the corpus holding the answer.

#497 fixed that: every text result now names its scope and points at the catalogue verb, --json carries searched_agents/scope, and an empty home is distinguished from a genuine miss.

To verify: run aware agent search mail (catalogue) and confirm the send commands are found, and that aware search mail now states which corpus it searched rather than implying none exists.

[pawellisowski]

QA rejected on Windows, 2026-09-10, with AWARE 0.134.1. aware agent install google-workspace --json succeeds, but the installed subtree contains only .aware-install.yaml, manifest.yaml, command docs, and skill docs. The manifest dispatches through transport.cli.binary: aware-google; where aware-google finds nothing. The v0.135.0 release assets contain no Google transport, GitHub code search finds no implementation, and npm has no aware-google, @aware-aeco/google-workspace, or @aware-aeco/aware-google package. aware agent describe google-workspace therefore advertises gmail.send without an executable that can perform it. The test install was removed afterward; no OAuth flow or mail side effect occurred. This blocks pawellisowski/floless.app#1090. Please distribute the transport (or make agent install obtain it), attest the installed executable, and provide a real-provider canary path before re-labelling QA-ready.

[pawellisowski]

Shipped in v0.136.0 (npm @aware-aeco/cli@0.136.0, latest=0.136.0) and published as google-workspace@2.0.0.

Delivered through:

• fix: make Google Workspace Gmail send runnable #521 — in-process Gmail send runtime, OAuth narrowing/refresh handling, MIME construction, bounded ambiguity handling, redaction, outbox evidence, and the controlled canary contract
• fix: canonicalize pinned registry archive digests #523 — canonical cross-platform validation for immutable registry bundle digests
• registry: publish Google Workspace 2.0.0 #522 — immutable registry publication of google-workspace@2.0.0, with rejected 1.0.0 retained as exact-version history and the first-party bundle updated

Post-merge verification used the actual published npm CLI against the actual public registry:

• aware agent install google-workspace --json resolved 2.0.0
• provenance reported verified: true; entry and installed digests both equal sha256:7f18040c2bbdd24567bea5a5a0a120a6bf65fa8faf9d03adb73106236890d608
• aware agent describe google-workspace --json reports gmail.send as available and runtime-gated at CLI 0.136.0
• the issue canary installed and compiled successfully
• aware app run issue-495-gmail-send-canary reached the in-process gmail.send auth preflight and failed safely with: Google OAuth refresh failed: auth expired — run: aware connect google-workspace --refresh
• there is no aware-google executable dependency anymore, and no mail side effect occurred during this credential-free verification

QA remains rejected and this issue stays open because this machine has no authorized Google sender account or controlled primary/Bcc mailboxes. To close it, update to @aware-aeco/cli@0.136.0, run aware connect google-workspace --refresh, replace the placeholders in docs/qa/google-workspace-gmail-send.md / the canary fixture, and verify the unique marker arrives once at both the primary recipient and Bcc recipient with the authenticated sender identity.