gws-gmail-read

gws-gmail-read is a skill for Claude Code from pleaseai/claude-code-plugins. It costs 19 tokens per session (425 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gws-gmail-read, MIT.

A command-line tool for reading a Gmail message and extracting its body or email headers such as sender, recipient, subject, and date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Read messages by ID, include headers, return HTML, convert HTML-only messages to plain text, or pipe JSON into other tools.
Why use it?
It turns Gmail content into text or JSON that scripts can process, including messages with different body formats.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **PREREQUISITE:** Read `../gws-shared/SKILL.md` for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run `gws generate-skills` to create it..

Part of the google-workspace plugin — 95 skills shipped together

Good fit Read messages by ID, include headers, return HTML, convert HTML-only messages to plain text, or pipe JSON into other tools.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pleaseai/claude-code-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pleaseai/claude-code-plugins/gws-gmail-read

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 95 skills.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 425 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 100% 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 $0.00019 $0.00425
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00212
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 5d ago against content hash 11707bc21b93, 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-read 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

100% identical to gws-gmail-read — 0 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/google-workspace/.agents/skills/gws-gmail-read/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

gmail +read

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

Read a message and extract its body or headers

Usage

gws gmail +read --id <ID>

Flags

Flag Required Default Description
--id The Gmail message ID to read
--headers Include headers (From, To, Subject, Date) in the output
--format text Output format (text, json)
--html Return HTML body instead of plain text
--dry-run Show the request that would be sent without executing it

Examples

gws gmail +read --id 18f1a2b3c4d
gws gmail +read --id 18f1a2b3c4d --headers
gws gmail +read --id 18f1a2b3c4d --format json | jq '.body'

Tips

  • Converts HTML-only messages to plain text automatically.
  • Handles multipart/alternative and base64 decoding.

See Also

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 · 53 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 11707bc21b93

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gws-gmail-read is a skill published in the GitHub repository pleaseai/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 425 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gws-gmail-read, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.