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Gws Gmail Watch skill

gws-gmail-watchgoogleworkspace/cliskills/gws-gmail-watch/SKILL.md

Gmail: Watch for new emails and stream them as NDJSON.

32kApache-2.0

always on

19 tokname + description

once used

463 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

0

repo stars

32kGitHub

Install the Gws Gmail Watch skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-gmail-watch

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli.git /tmp/cli
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/cli/skills/gws-gmail-watch ~/.claude/skills/gws-gmail-watch

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description19 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions463 tok
Only if openedNo bundled files—

Until it is used, gws-gmail-watch costs about 72× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 95 skills from googleworkspace/cli would load 1,706 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • gmail +watch
  • Usage
  • Flags
  • Examples
  • Tips
  • See Also

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