A read-only command-line tool for searching and reading Gmail messages, threads, labels, and account details.

Use it to find messages by sender, subject, date, or status, read full threads, inspect labels, and check configured accounts.

It lets an agent find relevant email without manually opening Gmail and digging through the inbox.

email — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by drn/dots

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.

Any agent

npx skills add drn/dots --skill email

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 730 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00023	$0.00730
Opus 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00292
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00146
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00073

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f8d67fa0375d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email 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 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.

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.

agents/skills/email/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email (Read-Only)

Search and read Gmail messages using the gmail CLI.

Instructions

You are helping read Gmail data. Auth uses OAuth tokens stored at ~/.dots/sys/gmail/tokens/. Additional env vars (if any) are loaded from ~/.dots/sys/env.

Operations

# Search emails
gmail search "from:emily subject:kickoff"     # Search by sender and subject
gmail search "is:unread" --limit 10           # Recent unread
gmail search "after:2025/01/01 from:sarah"    # Date-filtered search

# Read a specific email
gmail read MESSAGE_ID                         # Read full email by ID

# List labels with message counts
gmail labels

# List configured accounts
gmail accounts

# Use a specific account
gmail search "budget" --account personal
gmail labels --account work

# Re-authenticate an account (opens browser for OAuth)
gmail auth personal

# JSON output
gmail search "quarterly review" --json
gmail accounts --json

Accounts

Run gmail accounts to see configured accounts with names and emails. The default account is marked with *.

Common Tasks

Find recent emails from someone

gmail search "from:emily" --limit 10

Read an email thread

# First search to find message IDs
gmail search "subject:technical kickoff" --limit 5
# Then read the specific message
gmail read MESSAGE_ID

Check unread count

gmail labels

Account Resolution

The CLI resolves accounts in this order:

--account NAME flag — uses ~/.dots/sys/gmail/tokens/NAME.json
Default account from ~/.dots/sys/gmail/accounts.json
First token file found in ~/.dots/sys/gmail/tokens/

Search Syntax

Gmail search supports standard Gmail query operators:

from:sender — messages from a specific sender
to:recipient — messages to a specific recipient
subject:words — subject line search
after:YYYY/MM/DD / before:YYYY/MM/DD — date range
is:unread / is:starred — message state
has:attachment — messages with attachments
label:NAME — messages with a specific label
in:inbox / in:sent — location filters

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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.

1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f8d67fa0375d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

email is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 730 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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