recipe-save-email-attachments

recipe-save-email-attachments is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from googleworkspace/cli. It costs 20 tokens per session (276 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An email-and-file workflow that finds Gmail messages with attachments, downloads those files, and saves them in a Google Drive folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect email attachments such as client documents and place them in a chosen Drive folder.
Why use it?
It removes the repetitive work of searching email, retrieving attachments, and moving them into shared storage. The input does not specify which sender, messages, or folder to use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

gws is a command-line tool that provides one interface to Google Workspace services such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, and Admin. People and AI agents use it to automate Workspace tasks and receive structured JSON results, while its commands are generated dynamically from Google's Discovery Service. The catalogue contains skills and instructions for using gws.

googleworkspace/cli · 30,742 stars · on GitHub · developers.google.com

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/googleworkspace/cli/recipe-save-email-attachments
Any agent
npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-save-email-attachments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 276 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00276
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8efd6a6944b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recipe-save-email-attachments 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/recipe-save-email-attachments/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail, gws-drive

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Steps

  1. Search for emails with attachments: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "has:attachment from:[email protected]"}' --format table
  2. Get message details: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MESSAGE_ID"}'
  3. Download attachment: gws gmail users messages attachments get --params '{"userId": "me", "messageId": "MESSAGE_ID", "id": "ATTACHMENT_ID"}'
  4. Upload to Drive folder: gws drive +upload --file ./attachment.pdf --parent FOLDER_ID
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 · 30 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 8efd6a6944b9

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recipe-save-email-attachments is a skill published in the GitHub repository googleworkspace/cli (30,742 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 276 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 2026-09-03.