Email Skill

Send, read and draft emails from your Hermes agent via Gmail or SMTP

Communication✓ SafeIntermediatev1.1.0
Last verified:2026-06-01

About

Full email integration for Hermes agents. Read your inbox, draft replies, send messages and manage labels — all from within your agent workflow. Supports Gmail OAuth and generic SMTP.

Use Cases

  • Auto-reply to customer enquiries based on content classification
  • Send daily digest emails summarising agent activity
  • Monitor inbox for specific keywords and trigger workflows

What Email Skill can access

Moderate access

Skim the SKILL.md before installing, and check which credentials it asks for against what it actually claims to do.

  • Needs your credentials

    You must supply secrets for this skill to work. A skill with a valid key can do anything that key permits, so scope each one as narrowly as the provider allows and never reuse an admin key.

    Declares 2 required credentials: GMAIL_CLIENT_ID, GMAIL_CLIENT_SECRET

  • Sends messages as you

    It can send messages from your account. Anything it sends will look like it came from you, so mistakes are visible to other people.

    This skill's own description refers to "email"

  • Makes outbound network calls

    It contacts external services. Outbound calls are how data leaves your machine, so it is worth knowing where it connects.

    This skill's own description refers to "integration"

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing Email Skill on Hermes Agent

Hermes skills are on-demand knowledge documents stored in hermes/skills/, which is the single source of truth. Bundled skills are copied there on a fresh install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. Every installed skill automatically becomes a slash command, so a skill named plan is invoked with /plan.

  1. 1

    Search for the skill

    hermes skills search email

    Add --source to widen the search: official for curated skills, skills-sh for the public skills.sh directory, browse-sh for site-specific browser automation, or well-known to point Hermes at a site publishing its own skill index.

  2. 2

    Inspect it before installing

    hermes skills inspect official/<category>/email

    inspect shows the skill's contents and metadata. Use the fully qualified identifier that search returned, which includes its source and category.

  3. 3

    Install it

    hermes skills install official/<category>/email

    Identifiers are source-qualified, for example official/migration/openclaw-migration or skills-sh/anthropics/skills/pdf. You can also install straight from a URL that serves a SKILL.md. --force overrides non-dangerous policy blocks but will not override a dangerous scan verdict.

  4. 4

    Use it as a slash command

    /email

    Installed skills become slash commands in any chat session. Run hermes skills list to see everything available, or /skills from inside a session.

Commands follow the official Hermes Agent documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Requirements

API Keys & Credentials

GMAIL_CLIENT_IDGMAIL_CLIENT_SECRET

Version & Updates

Current Version
1.1.0
Last Updated
2026-06-01

Safety & verification

Listed as safe
No known issues reported for this skill in the Hermes Agent ecosystem.

How Hermes Agent screens skills

Hermes checks third-party and community skills against policy before installing, and --force will not override a verdict it considers dangerous. Because Hermes can also write its own skills at runtime, review what the Curator has kept periodically with hermes skills list.

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