AI email triage is worth having only when it sorts by consequence rather than by recency: what blocks a deal, what someone is waiting on you for, and what can be read at the end of the week.
/email-rulesA follow-up gets a reply when it opens with the specific commitment made on the call, stays under 120 words, and asks for exactly one thing the recipient can answer in a sentence.
/email-rulesA Gmail skill tells the model how to search an inbox the way a person would — by thread and by relationship rather than by keyword — which is the difference between a search tool and an answer.
/email-rulesFor anything that reads or drafts mail, yes. Pure-method skills like an email-rules skill work without any connection — they shape whatever the agent writes.
Whatever the agent has. A skill narrows an agent's tools but never widens them, so connecting Gmail read-only keeps every Gmail skill read-only.
Yes — Workspace and personal Gmail both connect through the same OAuth flow.