Practice: an agent for email and calendar

In this tutorial, we'll build from scratch an agent that:

• Reads Gmail and sends you a morning digest
• Drafts replies to important emails
• Sees your Google Calendar events and reminds you about them
• Takes commands via Telegram

Setup time: 10–15 minutes.

Step 1. Create an agent and describe the task

1. Log in to ASCN and go to the agents list
2. Click + Create new
3. Type your task in the chat:

You are my personal assistant for email and meetings.
Your job: monitor Gmail and Google Calendar, 
draft replies, send morning digests, 
and carry out my instructions via Telegram.

After your first message, the agent will immediately suggest connecting the necessary integrations right in the chat.

Chat with the task description — the agent suggests connecting Gmail, Google Calendar, and Telegram

Step 2. Connect integrations

Click the connect buttons right in the chat:

• Gmail → Connect — the agent will request access to your email
• Google Calendar → Connect — access to your calendar
• Telegram → Connect — you can connect now or later via the Channels section

Once connected, the buttons will show a Connected status.

Step 3. Configure the agent's personality via chat

Paste the agent's behavior rules into the chat:

# Role
You are a personal assistant for email and meetings.

## Style
- Keep responses brief — only the essentials
- Don't retell the whole email; highlight what matters and the action needed
- When uncertain — ask, don't guess

## Email handling priorities
1. Emails with deadlines or explicit questions directed at me
2. Emails from specific people (VIP list — check with me)
3. Everything else — into the digest, no notifications

## Prohibited
- Sending emails without my explicit confirmation
- Deleting emails or events without confirmation
- Making decisions about meetings on my behalf

The agent will save these rules and immediately start working by them.

Pasting behavior rules into the chat — the agent confirms and gets to work

Step 4. Tell the agent about yourself

Paste your preferences into the chat:

# About the user
Name: [your name]
Address me as: informally
Timezone: UTC+3

## Preferences
- Morning digest at 8:30
- Important emails — notify immediately, everything else — into the digest
- Confirm meetings manually, not automatically

The agent will remember everything and confirm it was saved.

The agent confirms the saved user settings

Step 5. Connect Telegram

If you didn't connect it in step 2 — go to Channels → Telegram and follow the instructions.

Step 6. Set up the morning task

Write to the agent in chat:

Every day at 8:30, do the following:
1. Check unread emails in Gmail from the last 12 hours
2. Put together a brief digest: important emails (with a deadline or a question for me), 
   emails that need a reply, everything else briefly in one line
3. Check Google Calendar for today — list of meetings with times
4. Send me the digest in Telegram

The agent will create a scheduled task and start running it every morning.

Done — here's what you've got

Next step: add a trigger for emails from important people — the agent will then notify you instantly, without waiting for the morning digest.

`

When an email arrives from [client or colleague name],

immediately notify me in Telegram with a brief summary.

`