Gmail watcher for OpenClaw

[ethanbeard]

Built a Gmail watcher plugin for OpenClaw on top of Google Workspace CLI.

The main primitive here is gws gmail +watch.

I wanted real-time Gmail delivery to an agent without the usual tradeoff:

• either wire up webhook glue yourself
• or poll forever just to notice new mail

Using gws gmail +watch, the plugin keeps the agent asleep until a new email actually arrives, then delivers sender/subject/snippet to the configured OpenClaw agent.

So the interesting part for me is less “another plugin” and more that gws made it straightforward to build a push-style Gmail trigger for an agent workflow.

Published here:

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/openclaw-gws
• GitHub: https://github.com/ethanbeard/openclaw-gws
• ClawHub: https://clawhub.ai/plugins/openclaw-gws

Would be curious if other people are building event-driven agent workflows on top of gws gmail +watch or other gws watch/streaming patterns.