recoup-platform-email-helper

name

recoup-platform-email-helper

description

Send an email via the Recoup API the reliable way — a Node helper that serializes the body correctly and fails loudly instead of sending an empty email. Use whenever a task needs to email a report/summary/notification to the account owner or a recipient. ALWAYS use this script to send email; never hand-build `curl … -d "{…}"` with inline `jq`/shell interpolation (that silently produces empty "Message from Recoup" footer-only emails). Pairs with recoup-platform-api-access (which it sends through).

Sending email from a task

Send email by running the bundled Node script — do not assemble JSON in the shell.

Why this exists

Hand-rolling the send (curl -sS … -d "{… \"html\": $(echo "$HTML" | jq -R -s '.') …}") is fragile: depending on quoting/escaping it produces a malformed body, and the API used to silently deliver an empty footer-only email titled "Message from Recoup" with success:true. The model gets this wrong stochastically. This script removes shell serialization entirely.

How to send

1. Write the email body to a file (recommended for HTML — avoids all escaping issues):

   cat > /tmp/report.html <<'HTML'
   <h1>Daily Report</h1>
   <p>…your real content…</p>
   HTML
   

2. Send it:

   node "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/send-email.mjs" \
     --subject "Daily Report — $(date '+%B %d, %Y')" \
     --html-file /tmp/report.html \
     --to [e-mail]
   

$SKILL_DIR is this skill's install directory (~/.agents/skills/recoup-platform-email-helper); use the absolute path to scripts/send-email.mjs.

Flags

Flag	Meaning
--subject <s>	Subject line (optional — the API derives one from the body if omitted).
--html-file <path> / --html <s>	HTML body. Prefer --html-file.
--text-file <path> / --text <s>	Plain-text body.
--to <email>	Recipient (repeatable). Omit to default to the account's own email ("email me this").
--cc <email>	CC (repeatable).
--chat-id <id>	Room id for the footer "continue the conversation" link.
--dry-run	Serialize + validate and print the payload; do not send. Use to preview.

Rules

• Exactly one body is required. The script refuses to send (exit code 2) if there is no non-empty --html/--text. Never try to send an empty email.
• Check the exit code. Non-zero means it did not send — read stderr and fix it; do not report success. The script prints the Resend message id on a real send.
• The script reads RECOUP_API_KEY / RECOUP_ACCESS_TOKEN and RECOUP_API_BASE from the environment — these are already set in the sandbox. Never print or hard-code them.
• Node only (the sandbox runtime is node22; python3 is not guaranteed). Zero dependencies.