Gmail Watch

Gmail Watch 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 Watch

Copy Gmail Watch 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-watch ~/.claude/skills/gws-gmail-watch

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

What Gmail Watch does

Gmail Watch monitors a Gmail inbox for new messages and streams them as NDJSON, with optional Pub/Sub setup and label filtering. Use it when you need an agent to react to incoming email in real time.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

gmail +watch

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

Watch for new emails and stream them as NDJSON

Usage

gws gmail +watch

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

Frequently asked about Gmail Watch

What else does googleworkspace publish alongside Gmail Watch?
Gmail Watch 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 Watch 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 Watch compare to other Automation skills?
Gmail Watch ranks #76 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 Watch against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.