Your AI assistant
can manage your board

Claude Code has full filesystem access and understands Postal's format natively. Just tell it what to do.

Add a task called "Fix login bug" to my Work project in Postal.
My workspace is at ~/Documents/Postal

1. Reads ~/Documents/Postal/.workspace.json
2. Finds the "Work" project path
3. Reads ~/Documents/Postal/Work/.project.json
4. Creates a new task folder with content.md
5. Updates .project.json with the task entry
   → Task appears on your board within 1 second

Drop Postal's AGENT.md into your project root and Claude Code will reference it automatically.

The ChatGPT desktop app can read files from your computer. Ask it to generate task files and save them directly to your Postal workspace.

I use Postal for task management. My workspace is at
~/Documents/Postal. Create a new task in my "Work"
project called "Prepare Q2 roadmap" with notes about
the key milestones. Save the files to my workspace
using the AGENT.md format.

ChatGPT can also generate shell scripts that create tasks in bulk — useful for importing from other tools or setting up a new workspace.

Cursor's agent mode can read and write files. Point it at your Postal workspace and it manages tasks alongside your code.

Read the AGENT.md file in this project, then create
a task in my Postal workspace at ~/Documents/Postal
in the "Backend" project called "Add rate limiting
to /api/auth endpoint" with notes about the approach.

Cursor respects .cursorrules files. Add a reference to AGENT.md so the agent always knows the format.

Copilot's agent mode in VS Code can create and modify files. Use it to keep your Postal board in sync as you code.

@workspace Look at the AGENT.md file for the Postal
task format. Create a new task in my "Frontend" project
called "Migrate to React 19" with notes listing the
breaking changes we need to handle.

Works with Copilot's @workspace agent which has full file read/write access in your project.

A five-line shell script can create tasks from GitHub issues, emails, CI failures, or any source. The format is simple enough to write by hand.

#!/bin/bash
PROJ="$HOME/Documents/Postal/Work"
FID=$(cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | head -c 8)
mkdir -p "$PROJ/$FID"
echo "# Deploy v2.1 to production" > "$PROJ/$FID/content.md"
# Update .project.json with jq (see AGENT.md for full recipe)

#!/bin/bash
# Pull open issues and create Postal tasks for each one
PROJ="$HOME/Documents/Postal/GitHub Issues"
gh issue list --json title,body --limit 20 | jq -c '.[]' | while read issue; do
    TITLE=$(echo "$issue" | jq -r '.title')
    BODY=$(echo "$issue" | jq -r '.body // empty')
    FID=$(cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | head -c 8)
    mkdir -p "$PROJ/$FID"
    printf "# %s\n\n%s\n" "$TITLE" "$BODY" > "$PROJ/$FID/content.md"
done
# Then update .project.json (see AGENT.md for full format)