Showcase: Never Miss an Important Email — Compiled AINL Monitor with Telegram Alerts

Audience: Anyone who wants reliable inbox alerts without paying per-check LLM costs

The workflow

openclaw/bridge/wrappers/email_monitor.ainl does one focused thing: check Gmail for unread messages, and if any exist, fire a Telegram notification via the queue adapter.

# email_monitor.ainl
S core cron "*/15 * * * *"

L0:
  R email G ->data
  X msgs (or (get data "messages") [])
  X count (core.len msgs)
  If (gt count 0) ->L_notify ->L_exit

L_notify:
  X count_str (core.stringify count)
  X msg (core.concat "📧 You have " count_str " unread email(s).")
  R queue Put [ "notify", msg ] ->sent
  Ret "notified"

L_exit:
  Ret "ok"

That's the entire file. Compile it once, schedule it, and it runs deterministically every 15 minutes.

Why this beats a script

| | Python cron script | AINL monitor | |---|---|---| | Fails silently on import error | Yes | No — compiler catches it | | Auditable execution trace | No | Yes — JSONL trajectory | | Extend without touching internals | Hard | include a new module | | Token cost per run | Varies (if LLM used) | Zero |

What you need

• AINL installed (pip install ainativelang)
• Email adapter configured (Gmail OAuth or IMAP)
• Queue adapter routing to Telegram (telegram: prefix in ZEROCLAW_NOTIFY_TARGET or OpenClaw equivalent)
• OpenClaw or ZeroClaw for scheduling — OpenClaw setup · ZeroClaw setup

ainl check openclaw/bridge/wrappers/email_monitor.ainl --strict
ainl run openclaw/bridge/wrappers/email_monitor.ainl