skill

gws-gmail-read

Gmail: Read a message and extract its body or headers.

Description as published by the maintainer. Source

• active

active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-08-01.

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Will this work with your setup?

No harness stated by the author and no install path convention detected. Compatibility is untested.

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The skill definition lives at skills/gws-gmail-read/SKILL.md in https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli.

Where to get it

• Repository — https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

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These share tags the maintainers applied themselves, such as automation, cli, discovery-api, gemini-cli-extension. Common tags like "mcp" or "ai" are ignored for this: agreeing with six hundred other projects is not a similarity.

This is not a recommendation and not a test result. It is a map of what the authors said their work is about.

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How the author describes it

Topics the maintainer set on GitHub: agent-skills, ai-agent, automation, cli, discovery-api, gemini-cli-extension, google-admin, google-api, google-calendar, google-chat, google-docs, google-drive, google-sheets, google-workspace, oauth2, rust.