Manage your Gmail inbox with voice commands

Sends, reads, and organizes your email without opening the app. Filter by sender or subject, draft replies, and mark messages read or archived.

Best for: Teams drowning in email who want to triage without switching apps.

Operations / process-automationatomicfor-opsneeds-integrationno-setup

Topics

agent-skillsai-agentautomationclidiscovery-apigemini-cli-extensiongoogle-admingoogle-apigoogle-calendargoogle-chatgoogle-docsgoogle-drivegoogle-sheetsgoogle-workspaceoauth2rust

Source

Creator's repository · googleworkspace/cli

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License: Apache-2.0

Skill file

Preview skill file
---
name: gws-gmail
description: "Gmail: Send, read, and manage email."
metadata:
  version: 0.22.5
  openclaw:
    category: "productivity"
    requires:
      bins:
        - gws
    cliHelp: "gws gmail --help"
---

# gmail (v1)

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

```bash
gws gmail <resource> <method> [flags]
```

## Helper Commands

| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| [`+send`](../gws-gmail-send/SKILL.md) | Send an email |
| [`+triage`](../gws-gmail-triage/SKILL.md) | Show unread inbox summary (sender, subject, date) |
| [`+reply`](../gws-gmail-reply/SKILL.md) | Reply to a message (handles threading automatically) |
| [`+reply-all`](../gws-gmail-reply-all/SKILL.md) | Reply-all to a message (handles threading automatically) |
| [`+forward`](../gws-gmail-forward/SKILL.md) | Forward a message to new recipients |
| [`+read`](../gws-gmail-read/SKILL.md) | Read a message and extract its body or headers |
| [`+watch`](../gws-gmail-watch/SKILL.md) | 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:

```bash
# 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.