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recipe-save-email-attachments

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

68

Quality

61%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

Pending

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Discovery

50%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description clearly communicates a specific workflow involving Gmail attachments and Google Drive, making it distinctive and concrete. However, it lacks any explicit 'Use when...' trigger guidance, which significantly hurts completeness and could make it harder for Claude to know when to select this skill. Adding trigger terms and common user phrasings would substantially improve it.

Suggestions

Add a 'Use when...' clause such as 'Use when the user wants to save email attachments from Gmail to Google Drive, or mentions backing up Gmail attachments.'

Include additional natural trigger terms users might say, such as 'email attachments', 'download attachments', 'backup emails to Drive', or 'extract files from emails'.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description lists specific concrete actions: finding Gmail messages with attachments and saving them to a Google Drive folder. These are clear, actionable capabilities.

3 / 3

Completeness

The description answers 'what does this do' clearly but completely lacks a 'Use when...' clause or any explicit trigger guidance for when Claude should select this skill. Per the rubric, a missing 'Use when...' clause caps completeness at 2, and since the 'when' is entirely absent, this scores a 1.

1 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural keywords like 'Gmail', 'attachments', 'Google Drive', and 'folder', but misses common variations users might say such as 'email attachments', 'download attachments', 'backup emails', or 'save email files'.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The combination of Gmail, attachments, and Google Drive creates a very specific niche that is unlikely to conflict with other skills. The workflow described is distinct and narrowly scoped.

3 / 3

Total

9

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12

Passed

Implementation

72%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a concise, well-structured recipe skill that provides specific CLI commands for each step. However, it has gaps in the workflow between downloading an attachment (base64 data) and uploading it as a file, and lacks validation/error-handling steps for what is essentially a batch file operation.

Suggestions

Clarify how the attachment data from step 3 (typically base64-encoded) gets saved as a local file before step 4's upload.

Add a validation step after upload (e.g., verify file exists in Drive) and mention handling for multiple attachments/messages (loop guidance).

Add a note about handling the case where the search returns no results or messages have multiple attachments.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The skill is lean and efficient. The prerequisite note is necessary context, and every line serves a purpose. No unnecessary explanations of what Gmail or Drive are.

3 / 3

Actionability

Commands are concrete and specific, but there are gaps: step 3 downloads an attachment but doesn't explain how to extract the attachment data (base64 decode) to a file, and the transition from step 3 to step 4 (saving as ./attachment.pdf) is unclear. The placeholder values (MESSAGE_ID, ATTACHMENT_ID, FOLDER_ID) are reasonable but the workflow between steps isn't fully executable as-is.

2 / 3

Workflow Clarity

Steps are clearly sequenced, but there are no validation checkpoints (e.g., checking if the upload succeeded, handling cases where no attachments are found, or iterating over multiple messages/attachments). For a batch-like operation involving file downloads and uploads, the lack of error handling or verification caps this at 2.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

For a simple, short skill under 50 lines, the structure is appropriate. It clearly references prerequisite skills (gws-gmail, gws-drive) and the content is well-organized with a single clear section.

3 / 3

Total

10

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12

Passed

Validation

90%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation10 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

metadata_field

'metadata' should map string keys to string values

Warning

Total

10

/

11

Passed

Repository
googleworkspace/cli
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