If your inbox looks emptier after you connect Job Agent, nothing went missing. We tidy your inbox so the application noise does not bury your real mail - but we never delete your messages. This article explains exactly what we do and where everything ends up.
What we read and label
Once you connect an inbox, Job Agent reads job-related emails and sorts them into buckets:
- Application confirmations - the "thanks for applying" receipts.
- Interview invites and scheduling emails.
- Offers.
- Rejections.
- Recruiter outreach from companies you applied to.
- Verification codes that some application forms send mid-submission.
Every classified email gets a Job Agent label in your inbox, so you can always find the full set in one place.
We tidy, we do not delete
To keep your inbox readable, Job Agent archives the low-signal buckets by default - routine confirmations and rejections. Archiving in Gmail removes a message from your Inbox view, but the email is not deleted. It stays in your account, it keeps its Job Agent label, and it is fully searchable.
So when you open Gmail and your inbox looks quiet, that is the de-clutter working as intended - not lost mail.
Where to find an archived email
Any archived email is still one click or one search away:
- Open All Mail in Gmail - every archived message lives there.
- Or click the Job Agent label in the Gmail sidebar to see only what we classified.
- Or just search for the company or subject - archived mail shows up in search like anything else.
You can also see your classified emails inside Job Agent, attached to each application, without opening Gmail at all.
The important ones get starred
While the routine buckets get archived, the emails that actually need you - interviews and offers - are starred instead, so they stand out at the top of your inbox and in Gmail's Starred view. Recruiter outreach is starred too.
Verification codes are deleted on purpose
Some application forms email a one-time code partway through submitting. Job Agent reads that code to finish the application, then deletes it right after. Any leftover codes are swept on the next inbox scan. This is the one case where we do remove mail - on purpose, so an old login code cannot sit in your mailbox and leak later.
Change any of this
All of this is configurable and reversible at Settings, then Notifications, under Gmail actions. For each bucket you can turn Archive and Star on or off. Prefer to keep everything in your inbox? Turn archiving off and nothing leaves your Inbox view. Already archived mail can be moved back to your inbox from Gmail at any time.
Marketing vs account emails
Inbox tidying only touches the job-application mail in your connected inbox. It is separate from the product and lifecycle emails Job Agent sends to your account address (which you can opt out of in the same Notifications settings) and from account or security emails like sign-in codes and receipts, which always come through.