Recipe Create Vacation Responder

googleworkspace/recipe-create-vacation-responder

Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

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30175

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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 recipe-create-vacation-responder

The instruction itself

2 sections, as written by the author

Set Up a Gmail Vacation Responder

> PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail

Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

Steps

Enable vacation responder: gws gmail users settings updateVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}' --json '{"enableAutoReply": true, "responseSubject": "Out of Office", "responseBodyPlainText": "I am out of the office until Jan 20. For urgent matters, contact [email protected].", "restrictToContacts": false, "restrictToDomain": false}'
Verify settings: gws gmail users settings getVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}'
Disable when back: gws gmail users settings updateVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}' --json '{"enableAutoReply": false}'

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take googleworkspace/recipe-create-vacation-responder from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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