What is social-email?

A command-line tool for working with email through Himalaya, a terminal email program. It can list, read, search, send, reply to, organize, flag, and delete messages.

Use it to inspect inboxes, find messages, send or reply to email, move messages between folders, and manage flags or deletions.

It gives scripts and coding agents a consistent way to handle mail without manually opening a mail application. It also supports searching message headers and tracing where messages came from.

social-email — Skill for Claude Code by isaacrowntree

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 isaacrowntree/claude-social-skills --skill social-email

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isaacrowntree/claude-social-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install social, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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

When invoked 1,771 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 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	$0.00069	$0.01771
Opus 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00708
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00354
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00177

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 721ff97acb08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

social-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.

skills/social-email/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Email through the himalaya CLI: list, read, search, trace headers, send, reply, move, flag, delete.

Run: social email <command> (installed via bun link in this repo, or bun run /path/to/claude-social-skills/src/cli.ts email …). Add --dry-run before any command to print the request instead of sending it.

Credentials

none; auth lives in the underlying tool's own config

Nothing to store here: accounts, servers and passwords live in himalaya's TOML config. Run himalaya account configure (or bare himalaya) to add one, himalaya account list to see them.

Check what is present with social auth status email; store a value with social auth set email <KEY> <value> (OS keyring, else ~/.config/social/.env). Docs: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

API description this wrapper is built from

No machine-readable spec: himalaya --help (v2.1.0).

Commands

Every command accepts --json (raw JSON) and --jq <expr> (filter the JSON with jq).

`social email accounts`

accounts in himalaya's config

`social email folders`

mailboxes (folders) of an account

  --counts                   also fetch total/unread per mailbox (one IMAP STATUS each)
  -a, --account <name>       himalaya account (default: the config's default account)

`social email list`

newest envelopes first (* unread, ! flagged, @ attachment)

  -f, --folder <name>        mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
  -s, --page-size <n>        envelopes per page (himalaya default 25)
  -p, --page <n>             page number from 1
  --has-attachment           populate the attachment marker (extra lookup per envelope)
  -a, --account <name>       himalaya account (default: the config's default account)

`social email search <query>...`

search envelopes: from x and subject y, after 2026-01-01, flag seen, not …, order by date desc

  -f, --folder <name>        mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
  -s, --page-size <n>        envelopes per page
  -p, --page <n>             page number from 1
  -a, --account <name>       himalaya account (default: the config's default account)

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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 · 183 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 721ff97acb08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

social-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository isaacrowntree/claude-social-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,771 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-19.

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