Agent skill

Recipe Save Email Attachments

by googleworkspace in googleworkspace/cli

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Recipe Save Email Attachments

skills CLI
$ npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-save-email-attachments -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install googleworkspace/cli recipe-save-email-attachments --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-save-email-attachments .claude/skills/recipe-save-email-attachments && 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-save-email-attachments
GitHub stars
31k
Token cost
~262 tokens
SKILL.md length
92 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
77
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

  • Works in 4 steps: Search for emails with attachments: gws… → Get message details: gws gmail users… → Download attachment: gws gmail users… → …
  • Tasks that involve Email management
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Recipe Save Email Attachments is an agent skill from googleworkspace/cli. Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Its SKILL.md is about 260 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, Google Drive 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-save-email-attachments”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Search for emails with attachments: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "has:attachment…
  2. Get message details: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MESSAGE_ID"}'
  3. Download attachment: gws gmail users messages attachments get --params '{"userId": "me", "messageId": "MESSAGE_ID", "id": "ATTACHMENT_ID"}'
  4. Upload to Drive folder: gws drive +upload --file ./attachment.pdf --parent FOLDER_ID

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 Save Email Attachments loads about 262 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 27 tokens; SKILL.md has 92 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~27
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~262

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). 92 words, ~262 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/recipe-save-email-attachments/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
recipe-save-email-attachments
description
Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.
metadata.version
0.22.5

Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive

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

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Steps

  1. Search for emails with attachments: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "has:attachment from:client@example.com"}' --format table
  2. Get message details: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MESSAGE_ID"}'
  3. Download attachment: gws gmail users messages attachments get --params '{"userId": "me", "messageId": "MESSAGE_ID", "id": "ATTACHMENT_ID"}'
  4. Upload to Drive folder: gws drive +upload --file ./attachment.pdf --parent FOLDER_ID

© 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-save-email-attachments of googleworkspace/cli.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a3768d0

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Questions about Recipe Save Email Attachments

What does Recipe Save Email Attachments do?

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder. Recipe Save Email Attachments is an agent skill from googleworkspace/cli. Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

When should I use Recipe Save Email Attachments?

Recipe Save Email Attachments fits situations like: tasks that involve Email management.

How do I install Recipe Save Email Attachments in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Recipe Save Email Attachments in Codex?

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

Can I use Recipe Save Email Attachments 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-save-email-attachments -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-save-email-attachments, .gemini/skills/recipe-save-email-attachments, .github/skills/recipe-save-email-attachments and .opencode/skills/recipe-save-email-attachments in your project.

What does Recipe Save Email Attachments need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Recipe Save Email Attachments is instructions for the agent only.

Does Recipe Save Email Attachments 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 Save Email Attachments 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 Save Email Attachments use?

Recipe Save Email Attachments 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 Save Email Attachments use?

About 262 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Save Email Attachments?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Recipe Save Email Attachments: Xs Google Workspace (karaage0703/ai-assistant-workspace, 136 stars), Google Workspace CLI (laude-institute/headlong, 1.2k stars), Gws (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars) and Google Workspace (yc-software/qm, 15k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Recipe Save Email Attachments?

googleworkspace (a GitHub organization) maintains it in googleworkspace/cli, which has 31,280 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.