Daily Email Summary
by @bbdyno
Fetches recent emails from Gmail and provides concise summaries. Use when the user wants to check emails, get email summaries, or review their inbox.
clawhub install email-summaryπ About This Skill
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
/email-summary --count 20
/email-summary --all
Setup Requirements
Before using this skill, ensure:
GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH points to your credentials JSON file