email

What This Skill Does

The Email skill for OpenClaw provides a comprehensive interface for managing electronic communications directly through your AI agent. It abstracts away the complexity of various protocols, allowing you to interact with Gmail, Outlook, and generic IMAP/SMTP servers through simple natural language commands. Whether you are managing professional correspondence, filtering newsletter clutter, or automating routine outbound responses, this skill acts as a unified hub for your inbox. It supports complex operations such as reading, searching, labeling, and bulk-processing messages, ensuring you stay productive without needing to context-switch to a web browser or desktop client.

Installation

To add this skill to your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have the core agent installed and configured. Open your terminal or the OpenClaw management console and execute the following command:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/0xterrybit/email

Once installed, you may need to authenticate with your respective email providers through the agent's secure settings panel to grant the necessary read/write permissions for the selected accounts.

Use Cases

• Automated Summarization: Have your agent scan your inbox every morning and provide a bulleted summary of priority items.
• Outbound Automation: Send recurring status reports or notification emails to team members without manual composition.
• Inbox Hygiene: Automatically move newsletters or promotional emails into dedicated folders to keep your primary inbox clear.
• Information Retrieval: Quickly search historical correspondence to find specific attachments or meeting details from weeks or months ago.

Example Prompts

1. "Check my unread emails from the project management team and summarize the action items for me."
2. "Draft a polite response to the latest email from Sarah regarding the contract, confirming our meeting next Tuesday."
3. "Search my inbox for all emails from the last 7 days containing the keyword 'invoice' and move them to the 'Billing' folder."

Tips & Limitations

• Security: Always use App Passwords for Gmail and Outlook if you are not using OAuth 2.0. Never hardcode credentials in your prompts.
• Bulk Operations: When performing bulk actions, the agent will confirm the number of emails affected to prevent accidental deletions or movement.
• Limitations: The agent cannot currently handle encrypted S/MIME or PGP-encrypted emails. Complex multi-threaded conversations might occasionally be misinterpreted; verify critical replies before the agent sends them.