gws-gmail

A command-line interface for Gmail, Google's email service, with commands for reading, sending, replying to, forwarding, and monitoring messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send or read mail, summarize unread messages, keep replies in the correct conversation, forward messages, and watch for new email.
Why use it?
It lets a coding agent handle email from commands instead of requiring manual inbox work.

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/streakyc/googleworkspacecli/gws-gmail
Any agent
npx skills add StreakYC/googleworkspacecli --skill gws-gmail
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StreakYC/googleworkspacecli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 560 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00016 $0.00560
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00056

Measured yesterday against content hash d37f41ad13fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws-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 yesterday.

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 — 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.

skills/gws-gmail/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

gmail (v1)

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

gws gmail <resource> <method> [flags]

Helper Commands

Command Description
+send Send an email
+triage Show unread inbox summary (sender, subject, date)
+reply Reply to a message (handles threading automatically)
+reply-all Reply-all to a message (handles threading automatically)
+forward Forward a message to new recipients
+read Read a message and extract its body or headers
+watch Watch for new emails and stream them as NDJSON

API Resources

users

  • getProfile — Gets the current user's Gmail profile.
  • stop — Stop receiving push notifications for the given user mailbox.
  • watch — Set up or update a push notification watch on the given user mailbox.
  • drafts — Operations on the 'drafts' resource
  • history — Operations on the 'history' resource
  • labels — Operations on the 'labels' resource
  • messages — Operations on the 'messages' resource
  • settings — Operations on the 'settings' resource
  • threads — Operations on the 'threads' resource

Discovering Commands

Before calling any API method, inspect it:

# Browse resources and methods
gws gmail --help

# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema gmail.<resource>.<method>

Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.

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. yesterday First seen · 62 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A d37f41ad13fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gws-gmail is a skill published in the GitHub repository StreakYC/googleworkspacecli (0 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 560 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, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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