I Gave Claude Access to My Desktop Outlook Without Touching the Microsoft API

How a 150-line Python script using macOS Accessibility APIs turned my Mac’s Outlook app into a fully AI-readable inbox no OAuth, no permissions headache, no Graph API token. Every few months I try again to get Claude to help me with my emails. Every few months I run into the same wall: Microsoft’s Graph API requires an Azure app registration, an OAuth flow, admin consent for enterprise tenants, and - depending on your company’s IT policy - a ticket that takes two weeks to resolve. By then, I’ve given up and gone back to manually copy-pasting emails into Claude.