Problem
When agents share your personal inbox, every failure becomes harder to reason about. Permissions blur together, audit trails get noisy, and turning one workflow off can affect unrelated work.
Short workflow
- Map the agents or workflows that currently touch your personal email.
- Create one identity per workflow you want to isolate.
- Move new experiments to the identity mailbox first.
- Keep personal communication out of the agent workspace entirely.
What changes operationally
- Message history stops mixing human and agent traffic.
- You can revoke one workflow without rebuilding everything.
- Debugging becomes simpler because inbox state belongs to one identity.
When to split immediately
Split as soon as a workflow has external senders, long-lived threads, or separate security expectations. Those are the cases where sharing a personal inbox gets expensive fast.
Decision rule
If you would be uncomfortable deleting or exposing the agent mailbox by accident, it should not live in your personal account.