Gmail Email Skill

SkillCommunication

Sends email through Gmail using an app password, a claude skill for outgoing mail.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Gmail Email Skill skill

About this skill

Send emails via Gmail SMTP using App Password authentication.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by open-gitagent/gitagent in skills/gmail-email/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Send emails via Gmail SMTP.

Setup

  1. Enable 2-Factor Authentication on your Gmail account

  2. Generate App Password:

  3. Configure credentials:

    export GMAIL_USER="your-email@gmail.com"
    export GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD="your-16-char-app-password"
    

    Or create a .env file in the skill directory:

    GMAIL_USER=your-email@gmail.com
    GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD=your-16-char-app-password
    

Usage

python3 scripts/send_email.py \
  --to "recipient@example.com" \
  --subject "Subject line" \
  --body "Email body text"

Requirements

  • Python 3.6+
  • No additional packages needed (uses stdlib smtplib)

Signals

GitHub stars
712
Forks
134
Last commit
Aug 2026

ahel review

  • S4info
    community integration, published by open-gitagent, not gmail

Automated review, not a security audit. Ruleset v1+k2.

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Item type
skill
Key
gmail-email
Source
github.com/open-gitagent/gitagent