gws-gmail-watch

gws-gmail-watch is a skill for Claude Code from fakoli/fakoli-plugins. It costs 20 tokens per session (459 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gws-gmail-watch, MIT.

A command-line watcher that receives notifications about new Gmail messages through Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Pub/Sub is Google's service for delivering events between applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stream new email as newline-delimited JSON, pull once or continuously, and save messages as separate JSON files.
Why use it?
It removes the need for repeated inbox polling and can limit notifications to selected labels such as Inbox or Unread.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gws plugin — 94 skills, 15 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to stream new email as newline-delimited JSON, pull once or continuously, and save messages as separate JSON files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fakoli/fakoli-plugins/gws-gmail-watch
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 94 skills, 15 commands, 11 agents.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 459 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.
Origin 86% 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3f0cbbdd5665, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws-gmail-watch 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 5d 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

86% identical to gws-gmail-watch — 12 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.

plugins/gws/skills/gws-gmail-watch/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

gmail +watch

Reference: See the gws-shared skill for auth, global flags, and security rules.

Watch for new emails and stream them as NDJSON

Usage

gws gmail +watch

Flags

Flag Required Default Description
--project GCP project ID for Pub/Sub resources
--subscription Existing Pub/Sub subscription name (skip setup)
--topic Existing Pub/Sub topic with Gmail push permission already granted
--label-ids Comma-separated Gmail label IDs to filter (e.g., INBOX,UNREAD)
--max-messages 10 Max messages per pull batch
--poll-interval 5 Seconds between pulls
--msg-format full Gmail message format: full, metadata, minimal, raw
--once Pull once and exit
--cleanup Delete created Pub/Sub resources on exit
--output-dir Write each message to a separate JSON file in this directory

Examples

gws gmail +watch --project my-gcp-project
gws gmail +watch --project my-project --label-ids INBOX --once
gws gmail +watch --subscription projects/p/subscriptions/my-sub
gws gmail +watch --project my-project --cleanup --output-dir ./emails

Tips

  • Gmail watch expires after 7 days — re-run to renew.
  • Without --cleanup, Pub/Sub resources persist for reconnection.
  • Press Ctrl-C to stop gracefully.

See Also

  • gws-shared — Global flags and auth
  • gws-gmail — All send, read, and manage email commands
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. 5d ago First seen · 52 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 3f0cbbdd5665

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gws-gmail-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository fakoli/fakoli-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 459 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to gws-gmail-watch, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.