Agent skill

Recipe Create Vacation Responder

by googleworkspace in googleworkspace/cli

Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Recipe Create Vacation Responder

skills CLI
$ npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-create-vacation-responder -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install googleworkspace/cli recipe-create-vacation-responder --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder .claude/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
recipe-create-vacation-responder
GitHub stars
31k
Token cost
~268 tokens
SKILL.md length
93 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
77
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

  • Works in 3 steps: Enable vacation responder: gws gmail… → Verify settings: gws gmail users… → Disable when back: gws gmail users…
  • Tasks that involve Email management
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Recipe Create Vacation Responder is an agent skill from googleworkspace/cli. Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

Its SKILL.md is about 270 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Email management. It works with Gmail and Google Workspace. The repository describes itself as: Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Email management

Example prompts

  • “/recipe-create-vacation-responder”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Enable vacation responder: gws gmail users settings updateVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}' --json '{"enableAutoReply": true…
  2. Verify settings: gws gmail users settings getVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}'
  3. Disable when back: gws gmail users settings updateVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}' --json '{"enableAutoReply": false}'

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a3768d0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Recipe Create Vacation Responder loads about 268 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 28 tokens; SKILL.md has 93 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~28
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~268

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from googleworkspace/cli at commit a3768d0, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© googleworkspace). 93 words, ~268 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
recipe-create-vacation-responder
description
Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.
metadata.version
0.22.5

Set Up a Gmail Vacation Responder

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail

Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

Steps

  1. Enable vacation responder: gws gmail users settings updateVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}' --json '{"enableAutoReply": true, "responseSubject": "Out of Office", "responseBodyPlainText": "I am out of the office until Jan 20. For urgent matters, contact backup@company.com.", "restrictToContacts": false, "restrictToDomain": false}'
  2. Verify settings: gws gmail users settings getVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}'
  3. Disable when back: gws gmail users settings updateVacation --params '{"userId": "me"}' --json '{"enableAutoReply": false}'

© googleworkspace, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder of googleworkspace/cli.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a3768d0

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Questions about Recipe Create Vacation Responder

What does Recipe Create Vacation Responder do?

Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range. Recipe Create Vacation Responder is an agent skill from googleworkspace/cli. Enable a Gmail out-of-office auto-reply with a custom message and date range.

When should I use Recipe Create Vacation Responder?

Recipe Create Vacation Responder fits situations like: tasks that involve Email management.

How do I install Recipe Create Vacation Responder in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-create-vacation-responder -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder in googleworkspace/cli) into .claude/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Recipe Create Vacation Responder in Codex?

Run `npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-create-vacation-responder -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder in googleworkspace/cli) into .agents/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Recipe Create Vacation Responder in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-create-vacation-responder -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder, .gemini/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder, .github/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder and .opencode/skills/recipe-create-vacation-responder in your project.

What does Recipe Create Vacation Responder need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Recipe Create Vacation Responder is instructions for the agent only.

Does Recipe Create Vacation Responder access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Recipe Create Vacation Responder safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Recipe Create Vacation Responder use?

Recipe Create Vacation Responder is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Recipe Create Vacation Responder use?

About 268 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Recipe Create Vacation Responder?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Recipe Create Vacation Responder: Google Workspace (yc-software/qm, 15k stars), Gog (trpc-group/trpc-agent-go, 1.9k stars), Gmail Query Syntax (provos/ironcurtain, 612 stars) and Email Assistant (appleweiping/WEIPING_WIKI, 119 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Recipe Create Vacation Responder?

googleworkspace (a GitHub organization) maintains it in googleworkspace/cli, which has 31,284 GitHub stars. The repository holds 77 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: googleworkspace/cli on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.