Gws Gmail Agent Skill

by googleworkspace

Gmail: Send, read, and manage email.

504 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

30175

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-gmail

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

gmail (v1)

> PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

gws gmail <resource> <method> [flags]

Helper Commands

| Command | Description |

|---------|-------------|

| +send | Send an email |

| +triage | Show unread inbox summary (sender, subject, date) |

| +reply | Reply to a message (handles threading automatically) |

| +reply-all | Reply-all to a message (handles threading automatically) |

| +forward | Forward a message to new recipients |

| +read | Read a message and extract its body or headers |

| +watch | Watch for new emails and stream them as NDJSON |

API Resources

users

getProfile — Gets the current user's Gmail profile.
stop — Stop receiving push notifications for the given user mailbox.
watch — Set up or update a push notification watch on the given user mailbox.
drafts — Operations on the 'drafts' resource
history — Operations on the 'history' resource
labels — Operations on the 'labels' resource
messages — Operations on the 'messages' resource
settings — Operations on the 'settings' resource
threads — Operations on the 'threads' resource

Discovering Commands

Before calling any API method, inspect it:

# Browse resources and methods
gws gmail --help

# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema gmail.<resource>.<method>

Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take googleworkspace/gws-gmail from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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