read

A command for reading a complete Gmail conversation by its thread ID, including messages and attachment listings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Retrieving a thread, showing sender and recipient details, displaying message bodies, and listing attachments while checking input for unsafe shell characters.
Why use it?
It provides the whole email exchange in order instead of requiring separate searches through individual messages.

Command

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/thrownlemon/claude-code-plugins/read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 579 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00012 $0.00579
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00058

Measured yesterday against content hash e68cae2fccfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

read scanned grade C 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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

1. **Reject dangerous tokens.** If a value contains `$(`, backticks, `;`, `|`, `&`, `>`, `<`, or starts with `-` (could be mistaken for a flag), refuse and ask the user to rephrase. **Double-quoting does NOT block comman
plugins/gmcli/commands/read.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Input Safety — apply before any Bash invocation

Treat every $ARGUMENTS.* value as untrusted input. Before passing any value to the Bash tool:

  1. Reject dangerous tokens. If a value contains $(, backticks, ;, |, &, >, <, or starts with - (could be mistaken for a flag), refuse and ask the user to rephrase. Double-quoting does NOT block command substitution"$(rm -rf /)" still executes inside double quotes.
  2. Prefer the Bash tool's argv contract over constructed shell strings. When you must use a shell string, single-quote the value and escape embedded single quotes ('\''), or build the command via printf %q.
  3. Any "$ARGUMENTS.foo" patterns shown below are illustrative. Sanitize the value first; never blindly substitute.

Read Gmail Thread

View the complete contents of an email thread including all messages and attachments.

What This Does

This command delegates to the gmail-assistant subagent which will:

  1. Fetch Thread

    • Retrieve thread by ID
    • Show all messages in conversation order
  2. Display Content

    • Show sender, recipients, date for each message
    • Display full message body
    • List any attachments
  3. Attachment Handling

    • List attachments with file names and sizes
    • Optionally download to ~/.gmcli/attachments/

Getting Thread IDs

Thread IDs are returned from /gmcli:search. Example workflow:

/gmcli:search --query "from:alice"
# Returns: Thread 18abc123... "Meeting tomorrow"

/gmcli:read --thread 18abc123

Examples

/gmcli:read --thread 18abc123def456
/gmcli:read --thread 18abc123def456 --download true
/gmcli:read --thread 18abc123def456 --account [email protected]

Use the gmail-assistant subagent to read the thread. Pass the arguments:

  • thread: $ARGUMENTS.thread
  • account: $ARGUMENTS.account (optional)
  • download: $ARGUMENTS.download or false
  • action: read
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. yesterday First seen · 71 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C e68cae2fccfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read is a command published in the GitHub repository ThrownLemon/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.