Gmail Trigger

Gmail Trigger is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by vellum-ai in vellum-assistant.

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Install Gmail Trigger

Copy Gmail Trigger 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/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/tree/main/skills/gmail-trigger ~/.claude/skills/gmail-trigger

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/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/gmail-trigger/SKILL.md in vellum-ai/vellum-assistant
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gmail-trigger
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Gmail Trigger does

Gmail Trigger polls a Gmail inbox on a schedule and escalates to the assistant only when new mail arrives, so the user can get pinged for urgent mail, digest newsletters, or forward invoices.

Gmail Trigger is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Gmail Trigger comes from a repository tagged agent, agentic-ai, ai-assistant, anthropic and autonomous-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Gmail Triggers (Beta)

Polls the user's Gmail inbox on a cron and escalates to the assistant only when a new message arrives — an empty poll spends zero LLM tokens. Installing it means creating a script-mode schedule that runs the schedule's own copy of the shipped poll script. Schedule mechanics (script mode, the schedules/<id>/ convention, waking the agent loop) are documented in the included schedule skill.

Why this instead of a watcher

A watcher could only be configured through its prompt and its cadence. This one is a script that belongs to the schedule, so the assistant can change anything about how it behaves by simply editing the script. And because it runs as a schedule, its runs, errors, and cost all show up on the Schedules page in the app.

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

Frequently asked about Gmail Trigger

What else does vellum-ai publish alongside Gmail Trigger?
Gmail Trigger is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Mapping, Amazon Shopping and Assistant Migration. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Gmail Trigger does, and is maintained by vellum-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the vellum-ai/vellum-assistant page.
How does Gmail Trigger compare to other Automation skills?
Gmail Trigger ranks #768 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 Trigger against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.