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name: email-summary description: Fetches recent emails from Gmail and provides concise summaries. Use when the user wants to check emails, get email summaries, or review their inbox. homepage: https://github.com/yourusername/email-summary-skill user-invocable: true metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - python3 env: - GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH os: - darwin - linux - win32

Email Summary Skill

This skill fetches recent emails from your Gmail account and provides AI-powered summaries.

How it works

When invoked, this skill will:

1. Authenticate with Gmail API using credentials at $GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH
2. Fetch recent emails (default: last 10 unread emails)
3. Summarize each email with:
   • Sender and subject
   • Key points from the email body
   • Recommended actions or responses
4. Present results in an organized, easy-to-scan format

Instructions for the Agent

When this skill is invoked:

1. First, verify that the Gmail API credentials exist at the path specified in $GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH environment variable
2. Run the helper script located at {baseDir}/scripts/fetch_emails.py with the appropriate arguments:
   • Default: python3 {baseDir}/scripts/fetch_emails.py --count 10
   • With arguments: python3 {baseDir}/scripts/fetch_emails.py $ARGUMENTS
3. Parse the JSON output from the script
4. For each email, provide a concise summary including:
   • From: Sender name and email
   • Subject: Email subject line
   • Summary: 2-3 sentence summary of key points
   • Action: Suggested action (reply, archive, flag for follow-up, etc.)
5. Present all summaries in a well-formatted list

Usage Examples

/email-summary

Fetches and summarizes the last 10 unread emails.

/email-summary --count 20

Fetches and summarizes the last 20 unread emails.

/email-summary --all

Fetches and summarizes all unread emails.

Setup Requirements

Before using this skill, ensure:

• Gmail API credentials are configured
• Environment variable GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH points to your credentials JSON file
• Python 3 and required packages are installed (see setup guide in README.md)