Consent-based agent introductions and collaboration inbox

[sajeetharan]

Problem

Discovery alone does not create a connection. Developers need a safe way for another person or their AI agent to request an introduction without exposing private contact details or allowing autonomous spam.

Proposed solution

Add a consent-based collaboration inbox. An authenticated user or agent can prepare a structured request, but the target developer decides whether to accept, decline, block, or report it.

Acceptance criteria

• Let developers opt in and choose accepted request types: open source, hiring, mentoring, pair programming, or agent collaboration
• Accept structured requests containing sender identity, purpose, relevant project, requested action, and agent attribution
• Require an authenticated accountable human owner for agent-submitted requests
• Show a preview and require explicit confirmation before an agent sends a request
• Add inbox states: pending, accepted, declined, expired, blocked, and reported
• Reveal contact or enable replies only after acceptance
• Add per-sender limits, duplicate detection, cooldowns, blocking, reporting, and audit logs
• Support in-app delivery first, with opt-in email notifications and unsubscribe controls
• Expose request status to authorized MCP clients without exposing private message contents unnecessarily
• Add authorization, abuse, notification, expiration, and privacy tests

Product safeguards

• No autonomous cold outreach or mass messaging.
• No public display of acceptance rates or response times.
• A developer can disable agent-originated requests independently from human requests.
• Retention and deletion behavior must be documented.

Dependencies and related issues

• MCP discovery and request preparation: DevGlobe MCP server for consent-aware developer discovery #74
• Authentication: Feature: User authentication with API keys #49
• Privacy and blocking controls: Feature: Privacy controls for developers #47
• Public profiles: Feature: Public shareable developer profiles #50