Gmail Reader

Gmail Reader is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by googleworkspace in cli.

30.4K stars1.8K forkson googleworkspace/cliAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/01

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

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Install Gmail Reader

Copy Gmail Reader into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/tree/main/skills/gws-gmail-read ~/.claude/skills/gws-gmail-read

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/gws-gmail-read/SKILL.md in googleworkspace/cli
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gws-gmail-read
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Gmail Reader does

Gmail Reader reads a Gmail message by its ID and extracts its body or headers. Use it when you need to retrieve email content from the command line.

Gmail Reader is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Gmail Reader comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, automation, cli and discovery-api.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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>

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Gmail Reader

What else does googleworkspace publish alongside Gmail Reader?
Gmail Reader is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from googleworkspace/cli, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Append Text to Google Docs, Create Google Calendar Event and Drive Upload. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Gmail Reader does, and is maintained by googleworkspace in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the googleworkspace/cli page.
How does Gmail Reader compare to other Automation skills?
Gmail Reader ranks #71 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Gmail Reader against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.