add-gmail

add-gmail is a skill for Claude Code from sbusso/claudeclaw. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An integration guide that adds Gmail to ClaudeClaw, an agent that can work through messaging channels. Gmail can be available as tools for reading, sending, searching, and drafting email, or as a channel that receives emails and sends replies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect Gmail, configure Google authentication, and choose between tool-only access and an email-triggered agent channel.
Why use it?
It avoids building the Gmail connection and OAuth setup by hand. You can choose whether email only gives the agent tools or can also trigger it automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claudeclaw plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to connect Gmail, configure Google authentication, and choose between tool-only access and an email-triggered agent channel.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sbusso/claudeclaw/add-gmail
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 sbusso/claudeclaw --skill add-gmail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sbusso/claudeclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudeclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 14 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 88
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 126
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 189
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 133
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 210
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 221
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 189
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 75
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 85
    Code scans file system directories looking for sensitive files. This could be reconnaissance for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove unnecessary filesystem scanning. If file access is needed, use explicit, scoped paths. Avoid reading ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, or credential directories.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 96
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 123
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 126
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 181
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 190
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01999
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00800
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3c6499e35489, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/add-gmail/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Gmail Integration

This skill adds Gmail support to ClaudeClaw — either as a tool (read, send, search, draft) or as a full channel that polls the inbox.

Phase 1: Pre-flight

Check if already applied

Check if src/channels/gmail.ts exists. If it does, skip to Phase 3 (Setup). The code changes are already in place.

Ask the user

Use AskUserQuestion:

AskUserQuestion: Should incoming emails be able to trigger the agent?

  • Yes — Full channel mode: the agent listens on Gmail and responds to incoming emails automatically
  • No — Tool-only: the agent gets full Gmail tools (read, send, search, draft) but won't monitor the inbox. No channel code is added.

Phase 2: Apply Code Changes

Ensure channel remote

git remote -v

If gmail is missing, add it:

git remote add gmail https://github.com/qwibitai/claudeclaw-gmail.git

Merge the skill branch

git fetch gmail main
git merge gmail/main || {
  git checkout --theirs package-lock.json
  git add package-lock.json
  git merge --continue
}

This merges in:

  • src/channels/gmail.ts (GmailChannel class with self-registration via registerChannel)
  • src/channels/gmail.test.ts (unit tests)
  • import './gmail.js' appended to the channel barrel file src/channels/index.ts
  • Gmail credentials mount (~/.gmail-mcp) in src/orchestrator/container-runner.ts
  • Gmail MCP server (@gongrzhe/server-gmail-autoauth-mcp) and mcp__gmail__* allowed tool in agent/runner/src/index.ts
  • googleapis npm dependency in package.json

If the merge reports conflicts, resolve them by reading the conflicted files and understanding the intent of both sides.

Add email handling instructions (Channel mode only)

If the user chose channel mode, append the following to groups/main/CLAUDE.md (before the formatting section):

## Email Notifications

When you receive an email notification (messages starting with `[Email from ...`), inform the user about it but do NOT reply to the email unless specifically asked. You have Gmail tools available — use them only when the user explicitly asks you to reply, forward, or take action on an email.

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 1mo ago First seen · 223 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 3c6499e35489

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add-gmail is a skill published in the GitHub repository sbusso/claudeclaw (194 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,999 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.