| name | gmail-inbox |
| description | Gmail integration for inbox triage, reading, and composing emails via Google Gmail API with Pub/Sub push notifications for real-time inbox monitoring. |
Gmail Inbox Skill
Status: BLOCKED
Google Cloud project not yet created. OAuth consent screen and credentials not configured.
Required OAuth Scopes
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly — read inbox, labels, threadshttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send — compose and send emailshttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify — mark read/unread, archive, label
Pub/Sub Webhook Configuration
Inbound email notifications require a Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic:
- Topic:
projects/<PROJECT_ID>/topics/openclaw-gmail
- Subscription: push to Gateway webhook endpoint
- Endpoint must be publicly reachable (Tailscale funnel or ngrok)
Approval Gate
All outbound sends require explicit human approval.
- Draft is presented to the user via the approval channel
- User must reply
approve or deny
- Denied drafts are logged but not sent
- No auto-send, no bulk send without per-message approval
Capabilities
- List unread emails with sender, subject, snippet
- Read full email body (text + attachments summary)
- Search inbox by query (from, subject, label, date range)
- Compose and send reply (approval-gated)
- Compose and send new email (approval-gated)
- Apply labels, archive, mark read/unread
Unblock Steps
- Create Google Cloud project at https://console.cloud.google.com
- Enable Gmail API + Pub/Sub API
- Configure OAuth consent screen (internal or external)
- Create OAuth 2.0 credentials (desktop app type)
- Store refresh token in
~/.openclaw/.env as GOOGLE_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN
- Create Pub/Sub topic and push subscription
- Run
openclaw config set skills.entries.gmail-inbox.enabled true
