gws-gmail

gws-gmail is a skill for Claude Code from WadeWarren/gws-claude-plugin. It costs 16 tokens per session (531 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gws-gmail, Apache-2.0.

A set of commands for reading, sending, and managing Gmail messages, conversations, drafts, labels, settings, and notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send, read, reply to, forward, draft, label, or monitor email, and to inspect mailbox history and settings.
Why use it?
It lets an agent handle email tasks without switching to the Gmail interface. It also includes shortcuts for common actions such as triaging unread mail and replying in a thread.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: 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 gws plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to send, read, reply to, forward, draft, label, or monitor email, and to inspect mailbox history and settings.

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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/WadeWarren/gws-claude-plugin
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wadewarren/gws-claude-plugin/gws-gmail

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 531 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 92% 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 $0.00016 $0.00531
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00053

Measured 10d ago against content hash 906cd38c0eda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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

92% identical to gws-gmail — 6 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 · 60 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
+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. 10d ago First seen · 60 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 906cd38c0eda

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gws-gmail is a skill published in the GitHub repository WadeWarren/gws-claude-plugin (38 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 531 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to gws-gmail, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.