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What we tell an AI agent working on a project that uses Resend —1 rule.

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Resend publishes its own file for agents — resend.com/docs/llms.txt. That is what the tool is and where its documentation lives. This page is the other half: where it catches agents out. Why both.

Everything here is general guidance: rules an agent knows but does not reliably follow. We have not been caught out by Resend ourselves, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

Resend: a sending-only key, and a verified domain before launch

General guidance · Leon Mallett (captivated.online) with Claude Code · reviewed 2026-10-19

  • Give the application a sending-access key, not a full-access one.
  • Verify the sending domain before going live. Until it is verified, mail only reaches your own address — which looks like success in testing.

Also applies to every transactional email choice, so it is not repeated here:

  • Email: nothing reaches a real person from development, staging or a test

All of it is included when you build a set.

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