Frameworks and agents · Published 2026-09-29 · Updated 2026-09-30 · AgentiSend
Send email from CrewAI
Give a CrewAI agent one tool that posts to POST /emails with its own budgeted key, and stop when the reply is agent_budget_exceeded.
To send email from CrewAI, give the crew one tool whose function posts to POST /emails with the agent's own key. The key is sending_access and carries a budget. The file below is that tool, called through run, which is the path a crew uses. It is run by the test suite against a local AgentiSend server: the first call sends, and the second message is refused with agent_budget_exceeded. The run does not call a hosted model.
Install
pip install crewaiThe agentisend package is standard library only. It is not on the Python package index yet: until it is, install it from the SDK directory of a checkout, or copy its agentisend folder beside this file.
The tool and the loop
"""CrewAI — one tool that posts to POST /emails, and a scripted agent loop.
`tool.run` is the path a crew uses. The first call sends. The second is a
different message, so a key whose budget is one comes back as
agent_budget_exceeded. No model is called.
The `agentisend` package is not on the Python package index. Install CrewAI
with `pip install crewai`.
AGENTISEND_API_KEY is the agent's key, with sending_access and a budget.
MAIL_FROM is an address on a domain you have verified.
AGENTISEND_BASE_URL is optional.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import os
from crewai.tools import tool
from agentisend import AgentiSend, AgentiSendError, idempotency_key
agentisend = AgentiSend()
TO = "crewai@example.com"
UPDATE = {
"to": TO,
"subject": "Ticket 4182 — we are looking into it",
"text": "Someone from support will reply within the hour.",
"purpose": "ticket-4182-update",
}
CLOSED = {
"to": TO,
"subject": "Ticket 4182 — closed",
"text": "The ticket is closed.",
"purpose": "ticket-4182-closed",
}
@tool("send email")
def send_email(to: str, subject: str, text: str, purpose: str) -> str:
"""Send one email to a person who asked for it.
Returns the message id, or a refusal with a code and a fix. When the fix
says a person decides, stop and report it: calling again will not change
the answer.
"""
try:
sent = agentisend.send_email(
{"from": os.environ["MAIL_FROM"], "to": to, "subject": subject, "text": text},
idempotency=idempotency_key(purpose, to),
)
except AgentiSendError as err:
return json.dumps({"sent": False, "code": err.code, "fix": err.fix})
return json.dumps({"sent": True, "id": sent["id"]})
def run() -> None:
"""Two tool calls, then stop when the second is refused."""
for call in (UPDATE, CLOSED):
raw = send_email.run(**call)
result = json.loads(raw)
print(json.dumps(result), flush=True)
if result.get("sent") is False:
return
if __name__ == "__main__":
run()agent_budget_exceeded means the period's ceiling is spent. The fix says a person raises it, in the console, so the agent stops instead of calling again.
The key
POST /api-keys with sending_access mints the key. PATCH /limits/keys/{id} sets budget_per_period and period. The same calls from Python are executed in Send email from Python.