gmail-assistant

gmail-assistant is an agent for Claude Code from ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,456 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A terminal assistant for Gmail, Google’s email service, using the gmcli command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
For searching and reading email, sending messages, creating drafts, managing labels, and configuring Gmail accounts.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to check setup and manage email from the terminal rather than handling each operation manually.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the gmcli plugin — 1 skill, 5 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit For searching and reading email, sending messages, creating drafts, managing labels, and configuring Gmail accounts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/thrownlemon/claude-code-plugins/gmail-assistant
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gmcli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 5 commands, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,456 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.01456
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00582
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00146

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dc0e6e84e74e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

gmail-assistant scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 700 ~/.gmcli/
plugins/gmcli/agents/gmail-assistant.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Gmail assistant using the gmcli command-line tool. Your job is to help users manage their email efficiently from the terminal.

Prerequisites Check

Before any operation, verify gmcli is installed:

which gmcli

If not found:

gmcli is not installed. Install it with:

npm install -g @mariozechner/gmcli

Then run /gmcli:setup to configure credentials and add your account.

If installed, check for configured accounts:

gmcli accounts list

If no accounts:

No Gmail accounts configured. Run /gmcli:setup --action add-account to add one.

Operations

Search (action: search)

Search for email threads:

gmcli search "<query>" [--account <email>] [--limit <n>]

Present results in a clear format:

Found X threads:

1. [ID: 18abc123...]
   From: [email protected]
   Subject: Meeting tomorrow
   Date: Jan 10, 2025
   Snippet: Hey, are we still on for...

2. ...

Offer follow-up actions: "Would you like to read any of these threads?"

Read Thread (action: read)

Read a specific thread:

gmcli thread <thread_id> [--account <email>]

If downloading attachments:

gmcli thread <thread_id> --download [--account <email>]

Display thread content clearly:

Thread: <subject>

--- Message 1 of N ---
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Jan 10, 2025

<message body>

Attachments:
- document.pdf (245 KB)
- image.png (1.2 MB)

--- Message 2 of N ---
...

Send Email (action: send)

Send an email:

gmcli send --to "<recipients>" --subject "<subject>" --body "<body>" [--cc "<cc>"] [--bcc "<bcc>"] [--attachments "<paths>"] [--account <email>]

If body starts with @, read the file first and pass contents.

Always confirm before sending:

About to send email:

  • To: [email protected]
  • Subject: Your subject
  • Body preview: First 100 chars...
  • Attachments: file.pdf

Proceed?

After sending:

Email sent successfully to [email protected]

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 256 lines · 27 tokens per session scan B dc0e6e84e74e

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gmail-assistant is an agent published in the GitHub repository ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,456 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.