Gmail
Service domainEMAIL
Arcade Optimized
Arcade.dev LLM tools for Gmail
18tools
Gmail Toolkit
Arcade's Gmail toolkit provides LLM-ready tools for interacting with Gmail via the Gmail API, enabling agents to read, compose, send, organize, and search email on behalf of authenticated users.
Capabilities
- Reading & searching: List and search emails, threads, and drafts with built-in automated-email filtering (no-reply senders, non-primary categories); filtering can be disabled via
exclude_automated=False. Retrieve threads by ID and search by header. - Composing & drafts: Create, update, and delete drafts (plain-text or HTML, with smart body-replacement rules); compose draft replies with preserved reply-quote tails.
- Sending: Send new emails or existing drafts; reply to messages directly. All send operations support file attachments via
file://URIs — file bytes are resolved client-side before the request, never passed through the conversation. - Label management: List, create, and apply or remove labels on messages; move messages to trash.
- Account introspection: Retrieve the authenticated user's profile, email address, Gmail statistics, and profile picture via
WhoAmI.
OAuth
This toolkit uses OAuth 2.0 via Google. See the Arcade Google auth provider docs for setup details.
Available tools(18)
18 of 18 tools
Operations
Behavior
| Tool name | Description | Secrets | |
|---|---|---|---|
Add and remove labels from an email using the Gmail API. | |||
Create a new label in the user's mailbox. | |||
Delete a draft email using the Gmail API. | |||
Get the specified thread by ID. | |||
Lists draft emails in the user's draft mailbox using the Gmail API. | |||
Read emails from a Gmail account and extract plain text content.
By default, obvious automated emails are excluded from results using
no-reply sender patterns and Gmail's non-primary category filters
(promotions, social, updates, forums). Set exclude_automated=False to
include all emails regardless of source. | |||
Search for emails by header using the Gmail API.
By default, obvious automated emails are excluded from results using
no-reply sender patterns and Gmail's non-primary category filters
(promotions, social, updates, forums). Set exclude_automated=False to
include all emails regardless of source. | |||
List all the labels in the user's mailbox. | |||
List threads in the user's mailbox.
By default, obvious automated threads are excluded from results using
no-reply sender patterns and Gmail's non-primary category filters
(promotions, social, updates, forums). Set exclude_automated=False to
include all threads regardless of source. | |||
Send a reply to an email message, optionally with one or more file attachments.
To attach files, pass ``attachments`` and give each file's local path as a
``file://`` URI in ``source`` (formatted ``file:///absolute/path/to/file``). The
file's bytes are read and substituted on the client before the request is sent, so
the contents never pass through this conversation. Do not read, encode, or inline
the bytes yourself. | |||
Search for threads in the user's mailbox.
By default, obvious automated threads are excluded from results using
no-reply sender patterns and Gmail's non-primary category filters
(promotions, social, updates, forums). Set exclude_automated=False to
include all threads regardless of source. | |||
Send a draft email using the Gmail API. | |||
Send an email using the Gmail API, optionally with one or more file attachments.
To attach files, pass ``attachments`` and give each file's local path as a
``file://`` URI in ``source`` (formatted ``file:///absolute/path/to/file``). The
file's bytes are read and substituted on the client before the request is sent, so
the contents never pass through this conversation. Do not read, encode, or inline
the bytes yourself. | |||
Move an email to the trash folder using the Gmail API. | |||
Update an existing email draft using the Gmail API.
Single-part ``text/plain`` and single-part ``text/html`` drafts both support full
body replacement; the rebuild follows the existing draft's content type, so a
plain draft stays plain and an HTML draft stays HTML. Plain-text input supplied
against an HTML draft is auto-converted to HTML, and HTML input supplied against
a plain draft is stored verbatim as ``text/plain``. Reply drafts preserve their
reply-quote tail (``> `` lines for plain, ``<blockquote>`` for HTML) when the
body is supplied as a top-only update.
Multipart drafts and drafts with attachments still fail when the body changes;
in those cases the tool succeeds only when the effective body is unchanged
(metadata-only update preserving the existing MIME tree). Edit those drafts in
Gmail directly.
For each of subject, body, recipient, cc, and bcc, omitting the parameter or passing
``None`` leaves that part of the draft unchanged (for cc/bcc, existing headers are kept;
pass an empty list to clear). | |||
Get comprehensive user profile and Gmail account information.
This tool provides detailed information about the authenticated user including
their name, email, profile picture, Gmail account statistics, and other
important profile details from Google services. | |||
Compose a new email draft using the Gmail API, optionally with file attachments.
To attach files, pass ``attachments`` and give each file's local path as a
``file://`` URI in ``source`` (formatted ``file:///absolute/path/to/file``). The
file's bytes are read and substituted on the client before the request is sent, so
the contents never pass through this conversation. Do not read, encode, or inline
the bytes yourself. | |||
Compose a draft reply to an email message, optionally with one or more file attachments.
To attach files, pass ``attachments`` and give each file's local path as a
``file://`` URI in ``source`` (formatted ``file:///absolute/path/to/file``). The
file's bytes are read and substituted on the client before the request is sent, so
the contents never pass through this conversation. Do not read, encode, or inline
the bytes yourself. |
Last updated on