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# Gmail

Give agents tools to read, send, and draft email, manage labels, filters, and threads, and update mailbox settings in Gmail through Mastra Connect. Each tool call goes through the Mastra platform, which adds the connection's credential. Your application never stores Gmail credentials.

## Connect

Before you start, complete the [Connect setup](https://mastra.ai/docs/mastra-platform/connect) to install `@mastra/connect` and configure your platform project.

### Connect an account

Run this command from the directory that contains your `.env` file:

```bash
mastra connect add google-mail
```

The CLI guides you through Gmail's authorization and waits until the connection is active.

### Add tools to an agent

Pass [`tools()`](https://mastra.ai/reference/connect/tools) to the agent and select the `google-mail` provider:

```typescript
import { Agent } from '@mastra/core/agent'
import { tools } from '@mastra/connect'

export const googleMailAgent = new Agent({
  id: 'google-mail-agent',
  name: 'Gmail agent',
  instructions:
    'You help people read, send, and draft email, manage labels, filters, and threads, and update mailbox settings in Gmail.',
  model: 'openai/gpt-6-luna',
  tools: tools({ providers: ['google-mail'] }),
})
```

The agent gets 52 Gmail tools, with keys such as `google_mail_batch_delete_messages`. See [Gmail tools](https://mastra.ai/reference/connect/providers) for the full list, and the [`tools()` parameters](https://mastra.ai/reference/connect/tools) to restrict tools or require approval before a call runs.