Tencent's QQ Mail team started internal beta of "Agently Mail," an email service designed from the ground up for LLM Agents. The product's positioning: not "email for humans, with AI features bolted on," but "email for Agents, with humans as the final recipients."
The technical details: Agently Mail gives each Agent a real email address (e.g., agent-12345@qq.com), with full IMAP/SMTP support. The Agent can send, receive, and parse emails autonomously, using a structured "action API" (e.g., "send email," "read inbox," "search by sender"). The email content is parsed into a structured format (JSON-like) that the LLM can easily consume.
The identity layer: this is the missing piece for Agent identity. Today, most LLM Agents use human phone numbers / email addresses for verification, which is brittle and prone to fraud. Agently Mail's "Agent as a first-class citizen" approach gives Agents a stable, verifiable identity, with built-in support for Agent-to-Agent communication.
The bigger takeaway: "Agent identity infrastructure" is the next big missing layer. As Agents become more autonomous, they need real-world identities — phone numbers, email addresses, payment methods, social media accounts. Tencent is positioning itself as the "identity layer" for the Agent era, similar to how Stripe positioned itself as the "payment layer" for the internet era.
For the industry, this signals that the "Agent economy" needs infrastructure beyond LLMs. Identity, communication, payment, and reputation are the next big categories, and the company that can become the "Stripe of Agent infrastructure" will own the next decade.