Cli gws-gmail

Gmail: Send, read, and manage email.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/gws-gmail" ~/.claude/skills/googleworkspace-cli-gws-gmail && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: skills/gws-gmail/SKILL.md
source content

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

CommandDescription
+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
+read
Read a message and extract its body or headers
+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.