Gmail Email Skill
SkillCommunicationSends email through Gmail using an app password, a claude skill for outgoing mail.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
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
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Enable 2-Factor Authentication on your Gmail account
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Generate App Password:
- Go to https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
- Sign in to your Google account
- Select "Mail" and your device
- Generate password and save it
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Configure credentials:
export GMAIL_USER="your-email@gmail.com" export GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD="your-16-char-app-password"Or create a
.envfile 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.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
gmail-email- Source
- github.com/open-gitagent/gitagent