One-Click Gmail MCP Installation for Claude
Arty-McLabin · reddit · 2026-07-18
The author released a Gmail MCP for Claude, now supporting one-line installation: `npx @artymclabin/gmail-mcp auth`. The project is live on npm, the official MCP Registry, and Smithery. Features include sending/reading/searching emails, attachment support, thread-level operations, label and filter management, batch operations, and automated OAuth via browser flow. The author emphasizes that users can configure narrower permission scopes, supporting read-only access rather than defaulting to full access to the entire mailbox. The project's positioning is crystal clear: it functions strictly as a local stdio server, offering no Docker images or hosted cloud services to keep dependencies minimal and the attack surface small. The author mentions maintaining this fork since February 2026, using it daily within their Claude Code workflow for real email sorting; community PRs undergo security reviews first. The post also shares early metrics: 262 npm installs in the first week with almost zero promotion, and currently 203 stars on GitHub.
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