json-schema-emails

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Canonical shape of the .workflow/emails/emails.json file passed between the fetch and summarize states — required fields (sender, recipient, subject, date, body), types, and field semantics. Read this whenever you write or read emails.json so producer and consumer agree on the shape.

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emails.json schema

The fetch state writes .workflow/emails/emails.json and the summarize state reads it. The file is a single JSON array of email objects. The canonical JSON Schema is in the sibling file schema.json; this document explains the fields and their semantics.

Top-level shape

A JSON array. Each element is an email object. The array order is preservation order — the consumer renders emails in the order they appear, so the producer should write them in the order it wants them rendered (typically newest-first as returned by the API).

Email object fields

All fields are required and must be strings unless noted.

sender — the From address. Format Name <addr@example.com> if the source provides a display name, else the bare address.
recipient — the To addresses, comma-separated. If the source has multiple To recipients they are joined with , (comma + space). CC and BCC are not represented in this schema.
subject — the email subject line, verbatim. Empty string is allowed if the source has no subject; do not substitute "(no subject)".
date — the date as it appears in the source headers (RFC 2822 or whatever the API returns). Do not reformat or normalize the timezone.
body — the message body as plain text. If the source is HTML, the producer is responsible for stripping tags before writing. Newlines are preserved; tabs are replaced with two spaces.

Validating

The sibling schema.json is a draft-2020-12 JSON Schema. Tooling that needs to validate the file structurally should load it from there; this document is the human-readable companion.