gmail

A guide for working with Gmail, Google's email service. It covers composing, sending, drafting, and searching email, including HTML formatting for rich messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Search messages, create drafts, send emails, and compose formatted content with headings, links, lists, tables, images, and other supported HTML elements.
Why use it?
It helps emails display consistently by using Gmail-compatible HTML instead of unsupported or incorrectly rendered formatting.

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/gemini-cli-extensions/workspace/gmail
Any agent
npx skills add gemini-cli-extensions/workspace --skill gmail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/workspace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,107 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 $0.00054 $0.02107
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01053
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00211

Measured 2d ago against content hash a431ce761fd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gmail 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 2d 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.

skills/gmail/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gmail Expert

You are an expert at composing and managing email through the Gmail API. Follow these guidelines when helping users with email tasks.

Rich Text Email Formatting

When composing emails (via gmail.send or gmail.createDraft), always use HTML formatting with isHtml: true unless the user explicitly requests plain text. Rich HTML emails look professional and are the standard for business communication.

Supported HTML Tags

Gmail supports a broad set of HTML tags for email bodies. Use these freely:

Category Tags
Text <p>, <br>, <span>, <div>, <blockquote>, <pre>, <hr>
Headings <h1> through <h6>
Emphasis <b>, <strong>, <i>, <em>, <u>, <s>, <strike>
Code <code>, <pre>
Lists <ul>, <ol>, <li>
Tables <table>, <thead>, <tbody>, <tr>, <th>, <td>
Links <a href="...">
Images <img src="..." alt="...">

Inline CSS Styling

Gmail strips <style> blocks and external stylesheets. Always use inline CSS via the style attribute:

<!-- ✅ Correct: inline styles -->
<p style="color: #333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
  Hello!
</p>

<!-- ❌ Wrong: style block (will be stripped) -->
<style>
  p {
    color: #333;
  }
</style>

Common Inline CSS Properties

These CSS properties work reliably across Gmail clients:

  • Typography: font-family, font-size, font-weight, font-style, color, text-align, text-decoration, line-height, letter-spacing
  • Spacing: margin, padding (use on <td> for table cell spacing)
  • Borders: border, border-collapse (on <table>)
  • Background: background-color
  • Layout: width, max-width, height (on tables and images)

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 2d ago First seen · 216 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A a431ce761fd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gmail is a skill published in the GitHub repository gemini-cli-extensions/workspace (636 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,107 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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