Daily Email Summary

Fetches recent emails from Gmail and provides concise summaries. Use when the user wants to check emails, get email summaries, or review their inbox.

Audits

Pass

Install

openclaw skills install email-summary

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)