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How Nora works

The loop

  1. You forward an email thread to your private Nora address, with a command code on the first line (or plain English).
  2. Nora reads the thread and prepares the right output — a reply draft, a summary, an analysis, or a report.
  3. Nora replies to you (never to anyone else) with a short receipt plus a copy-ready block you can paste straight into your email client.
  4. You send it — or reply to Nora with a tweak to get a revised draft.

The receipt

Every reply leads with the clean, copy-ready draft between two markers, so copying it is effortless and none of Nora's notes leak into what you send. Below it, a short receipt tells you:

  • Read as: what Nora understood you to want
  • Status: nothing was sent — this is a draft
  • How to revise: reply with a change
  • Heads up: anything to double-check before sending

The revise loop

Reply to a draft with a change ("make it warmer", "shorter", "mention Tuesday") and Nora returns a new draft on the same thread. Summaries and analyses are one-shot; replies and reports can be revised.

The guardrail

Nora's core is "drafts, you send." Your replies, summaries, analyses, and reports are always drafts you send — Nora never sends them, and never sends as you (no impersonation, ever). The one action Nora can take on your behalf is sending a meeting-proposal email, and only from her own clearly-labeled assistant address after you approve it with AG. Nothing reaches a third party without your explicit confirmation — that's enforced in how Nora is built, not a preference you can toggle.

Authenticity & privacy

  • Nora only acts on mail from you — it checks the sender against a registry and the message's authentication before doing anything; anything else is ignored.
  • By default, forwarded content is processed by a cloud AI service (Claude) to prepare your draft. For sensitive material, add the KL ("keep local") code and Nora processes the email entirely on its own on-device model — the content is never sent to the cloud (and Nora declines rather than falling back to it).
  • Nora is a single-tenant, self-hostable service — see the project repository to run your own.