gws-gmail-forward

gws-gmail-forward is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cblecker/claude-plugins. It costs 16 tokens per session (870 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gws-gmail-forward, Apache-2.0.

A Gmail command for forwarding an existing message to new recipients. It can include a note, attachments, and the original message's attachments, or save the result as a draft.

In plain words
What is it for?
Forward Gmail messages from an automated workflow or command line, with optional To, CC, BCC, message formatting, and file attachments.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually copy message content and manage the forwarded conversation. A dry run can show what would be sent first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the gws plugin — 28 skills shipped together

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 skills/cblecker/claude-plugins/gws-gmail-forward
Any agent
npx skills add cblecker/claude-plugins --skill gws-gmail-forward
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cblecker/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install gws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 870 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00016 $0.00870
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00435
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00087

Measured 4d ago against content hash 12ae58f8983a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws-gmail-forward scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 4d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to gws-gmail-forward — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

gws/skills/gws-gmail-forward/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gmail +forward

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

Forward a message to new recipients

Usage

gws gmail +forward --message-id <ID> --to <EMAILS>

Flags

Flag Required Default Description
--message-id Gmail message ID to forward
--to Recipient email address(es), comma-separated
--from Sender address (for send-as/alias; omit to use account default)
--body Optional note to include above the forwarded message (plain text, or HTML with --html)
--no-original-attachments Do not include file attachments from the original message (inline images in --html mode are preserved)
--attach Attach a file (can be specified multiple times)
--cc CC email address(es), comma-separated
--bcc BCC email address(es), comma-separated
--html Treat --body as HTML content (default is plain text)
--dry-run Show the request that would be sent without executing it
--draft Save as draft instead of sending

Examples

gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected]
gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected] --body 'FYI see below'
gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected] --cc [email protected]
gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected] --body '<p>FYI</p>' --html
gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected] -a notes.pdf
gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected] --no-original-attachments
gws gmail +forward --message-id 18f1a2b3c4d --to [email protected] --draft

Tips

  • Includes the original message with sender, date, subject, and recipients.
  • Original attachments are included by default (matching Gmail web behavior).
  • With --html, inline images are also preserved via cid: references.
  • In plain-text mode, inline images are not included (matching Gmail web).
  • Use --no-original-attachments to forward without the original message's files.
  • Use -a/--attach to add extra file attachments. Can be specified multiple times.
  • Combined size of original and user attachments is limited to 25MB.
  • With --html, the forwarded block uses Gmail's gmail_quote CSS classes and preserves HTML formatting. Use fragment tags (, , , etc.) — no / wrapper needed.
  • Use --draft to save the forward as a draft instead of sending it immediately.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 4d ago First seen · 70 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 12ae58f8983a

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gws-gmail-forward is a skill published in the GitHub repository cblecker/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 870 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gws-gmail-forward, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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