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gws-gmail

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Gmail: Send, read, and manage email.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace/blob/HEAD/skills/googleworkspace/gws-gmail/SKILL.md

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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
+sendSend an email
+triageShow unread inbox summary (sender, subject, date)
+replyReply to a message (handles threading automatically)
+reply-allReply-all to a message (handles threading automatically)
+forwardForward a message to new recipients
+readRead a message and extract its body or headers
+watchWatch 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.