Outpost

Walking into a meeting cold because context was scattered across email, Slack, and last week's notes. Outpost assembles and maintains that context so you arrive already oriented.

What becomes possible

For Empowered Engineers

Keep track of people, projects, and threads without depending on memory. Walk into every meeting already oriented. Set it up once and it keeps working in the background — continuous awareness without continuous effort.

• Automatic email and calendar sync from Apple Mail and Calendar
• A knowledge graph of people, organizations, projects, and topics
• AI-drafted email responses using your full context
• Meeting preparation briefings before every call
• Presentation generation and file organization on autopilot

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How Outpost Works

Core Skills

Skill	What it does
Sync Apple Mail	Reads email threads from Mail.app via SQLite
Sync Apple Calendar	Reads upcoming events from Calendar.app
Extract Entities	Processes synced data into a knowledge graph
Draft Emails	Writes response drafts using your full context
Meeting Prep	Creates briefings before upcoming meetings
Create Presentations	Generates PDF slide decks from markdown
Document Collab	Assists with document creation and editing
Organize Files	Cleans up and organizes your files

Prerequisites

Outpost spawns claude as a subprocess without loading your shell profile. Install Claude Code via Homebrew (brew install claude) rather than the native binary — the Homebrew install runs on Node.js, which supports NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS for enterprise CA certificates.

If your network requires a custom CA bundle, add an env block to ~/.fit/outpost/scheduler.json:

{
  "env": {
    "NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS": "~/.config/ssl/ca-bundle.pem"
  }
}

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Getting Started

Outpost currently requires macOS. Email and calendar sync read from Apple Mail and Apple Calendar, and a transitive dependency (@forwardimpact/libmacos) declares "os": ["darwin"]. npm install @forwardimpact/outpost will fail on Linux and Windows with EBADPLATFORM — there is no degraded mode today. A cross-platform degraded install (without Apple sync) is on the roadmap; until it ships, install Outpost on a Mac.

Which mail and calendar accounts are walked? Outpost reads Mail.app's and Calendar.app's local stores, so any account synced inside those apps is picked up — including an IMAP'd Gmail account in Mail.app and a CalDAV-synced Google Calendar in Calendar.app. Mail or calendar that lives only outside those apps (the Gmail web app, a separate Outlook client) is not seen.

brew install claude                     # Runtime: Outpost spawns claude as a subprocess
npm install @forwardimpact/outpost      # macOS only
npx fit-outpost init ~/Documents/Team   # Initialize knowledge base
npx fit-outpost daemon                  # Start the scheduler
npx fit-outpost status                  # Check what's happening

macOS Privacy & Security

Outpost agents need access to specific folders (Documents, Mail, Calendar). When macOS prompts, grant only the folders each process needs via System Settings > Privacy & Security > Files & Folders:

• Outpost.app — the TCC responsible process (Swift launcher)
• node — runs skill scripts with #!/usr/bin/env node shebangs
• "2.1.72" (or another version number) — this is the Claude Code CLI. macOS shows its version string instead of a name. Safe to grant per-folder access.