# Gmail API for AI Agents

Connect the Gmail API to your AI agent through Swytchcode. Call the Gmail API from the agent stack you already run. Swytchcode supplies the manifest, then handles authentication, retries, idempotency, and validation on every call.

### Copy paste to your AI agent
Build me a Gmail AI assistant  
Set up https://www.swytchcode.com/skills.md

### Provider
Gmail

### Category
Collaboration & Communication

### License
Proprietary

### Manifest
gmail

### Official site
[gmail.com](https://gmail.com/)

### API docs
[View docs](https://developers.google.com/workspace/gmail/api/guides)

## Use cases

### What can you build with the Gmail API?
1. Call Gmail directly from an AI agent without writing custom auth, retry, or error-handling code.
2. Get the right endpoints and call sequence for the workflow you need, instead of having the agent explore the Gmail API surface.
3. Chain Gmail with other approved integrations in one workflow, each step validated against your policy before it runs.
4. Give an agent safe read/write access to Gmail in production, with idempotent retries if a call fails.

## Setup guide

### How to connect the Gmail API to an AI agent
Four steps, no SDK, no boilerplate. Every Gmail call routed through Swytchcode is idempotency-keyed and safe to retry.

1. **Install the CLI**  
Run "npx swytchcode" to install the Swytchcode CLI—no account required to start.

2. **Pull the manifest**  
Run "swytchcode get gmail" to pull the Gmail API manifest, including its schema and available actions.

3. **Authenticate once**  
Provide your Gmail API credentials a single time. Swytchcode stores and refreshes them so your agent never handles raw secrets.

4. **Call it from your agent**  
Run "swytchcode exec gmail.<action> --key value" from any agent or script. No SDK, no framework lock-in.

### Copy
```
swytchcode get gmail
swytchcode exec gmail.<action> --key value
```

## FAQ

### Frequently asked questions
- **What is Swytchcode?**  
- **How do I get started with Swytchcode?**  
- **How does an AI agent actually call the Gmail API through Swytchcode?**  
- **What happens if a Gmail call fails, times out, or hits a rate limit?**  
- **Can I restrict which Gmail actions my agent is allowed to run?**  
- **Where does Swytchcode store my Gmail credentials?**  
- **Do I need to write a custom Gmail SDK integration for my agent?**  
- **How is calling Gmail through Swytchcode different from calling its API directly?**  
- **Do I need a specific framework to call Gmail?**  
- **Does Swytchcode log what my agent does with Gmail?**

## Build me a Gmail AI assistant

Copy the prompt into your agent. It will load Swytchcode and wire up Gmail.
Build me a Gmail AI assistant  
Set up https://www.swytchcode.com/skills.md