email-assistant

email-assistant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fuyuxiang/echo-agent. It costs 29 tokens per session (488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An email tool for reading, searching, drafting, sending, replying to, and forwarding messages through an email account. It uses the Himalaya command-line program or Python's IMAP and SMTP support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an inbox, find messages by sender or subject, compose and send email, or reply to and forward existing messages.
Why use it?
It lets an agent handle common mailbox tasks without switching between email applications or manually copying messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/fuyuxiang/echo-agent/email-assistant
Any agent
npx skills add fuyuxiang/echo-agent --skill email-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fuyuxiang/echo-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00029 $0.00488
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 5d ago against content hash d9c090451d9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

email-assistant 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/email_client.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/productivity/email-assistant/SKILL.md · 81 lines

What it actually says

Email Assistant

Two options: Himalaya CLI (modern, Rust-based) or Python imaplib fallback.

brew install himalaya  # or cargo install himalaya
himalaya account configure

Read

himalaya envelope list
himalaya envelope list --folder INBOX --page-size 10
himalaya message read <id>

Search

himalaya envelope list --folder INBOX subject "weekly report"
himalaya envelope list from "[email protected]"

Send

himalaya message write
# Or via template:
himalaya template write | himalaya message send

Reply/Forward

himalaya message reply <id>
himalaya message forward <id>

Option B: Python Fallback

Environment variables:

export ECHO_EMAIL_HOST=imap.gmail.com
export [email protected]
export ECHO_EMAIL_PASS=app-password
export ECHO_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
export ECHO_SMTP_PORT=587
python3 scripts/email_client.py list --host imap.example.com --user [email protected] --password xxx --count 10
python3 scripts/email_client.py search --host imap.example.com --user [email protected] --password xxx "urgent"
python3 scripts/email_client.py send --smtp-host smtp.example.com --user [email protected] --password xxx --to "[email protected]" --subject "Hi" --body "Content"

Common Workflows

  • Morning email digest: fetch unread, summarize subjects
  • Draft reply: compose response based on context
  • Search by sender/date/subject

Security

  • Store credentials in environment variables, never in chat
  • Use app-specific passwords (Gmail requires this)
  • Consider OAuth2 for production use
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 81 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A d9c090451d9f

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email-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository fuyuxiang/echo-agent (988 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 488 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.