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+.playwright-auth/
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 | "add a contact," "look up a contact," "find someone's number," "update a contact," "delete a contact," "list my contacts," "contacts" | **contacts** |
 | "transcribe this video," "get the subtitles," "what does this video say," "summarize this YouTube video," "YouTube transcript" | **youtube-transcript** |
 | "upload to s2," "s2," "s2 storage," "upload a file," "store this file" | **s2-storage** |
+| "read this email," "review this email," "open this gmail," "check my gmail" | **gmail-browser** |
 | "make a query," "show all pages tagged," "build a filter," "list tasks in," "show recent notes," "create a silverbullet view," "make a live widget" | **silverbullet-query** |
 | "clipboard history," "from maccy," "what was on my clipboard," "get the last link I copied" | **clipboard-history** |
 
@@ -231,6 +232,12 @@ description: Master index of all skills in your robot assistant system. Your ass
 **File:** `skills/youtube-transcript/SKILL.md`
 **Dependencies:** `yt-dlp` CLI, Python 3
 
+### Gmail Browser
+**Purpose:** Read Gmail emails using a persistent authenticated Chromium session. Loads saved auth state from `skills/.playwright-auth/google.json` — no manual login needed unless the session has expired.
+**Triggers:** "read this email," "review this email," "open this gmail," "check my gmail"
+**File:** `skills/gmail-browser/SKILL.md`
+**Dependencies:** `playwright-cli`, saved auth state at `skills/.playwright-auth/google.json`
+
 ### S2 Storage
 **Purpose:** Upload and manage files on S2, a self-hosted file storage service at s2.connorrhodes.com. Use `skills/s2-storage/scripts/s2_upload.py` for all uploads — do not rewrite the curl command inline in other skills.
 **Triggers:** "upload to s2," "s2," "s2 storage," "upload a file," "store this file"
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+---
+name: gmail-browser
+description: Read Gmail emails and threads using a persistent authenticated Chromium session. Use when asked to read, review, or extract content from a Gmail URL.
+version: 1.0.0
+---
+
+# Gmail Browser
+
+Read Gmail emails via Playwright using a saved auth session (no manual login required).
+
+## Auth State
+
+Saved at: `~/notes/skills/.playwright-auth/google.json`
+
+If the session has expired (redirects to Google sign-in), run the re-auth flow below.
+
+## Reading an Email
+
+```bash
+# Start a named session with saved auth
+playwright-cli -s=gmail open --persistent 2>&1 &
+sleep 5
+playwright-cli -s=gmail state-load ~/notes/skills/.playwright-auth/google.json
+playwright-cli -s=gmail goto "<gmail_url>"
+
+# Extract full email body text
+playwright-cli -s=gmail eval "Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.a3s')).map(el => el.innerText).join('\n\n---\n\n')"
+
+# Close when done
+playwright-cli -s=gmail close
+```
+
+## Re-Auth Flow (if session expired)
+
+```bash
+playwright-cli -s=gmail open --persistent --headed "https://accounts.google.com"
+# User logs in manually in the browser window
+playwright-cli -s=gmail state-save ~/notes/skills/.playwright-auth/google.json
+playwright-cli -s=gmail close
+```
+
+## Notes
+
+- The `.a3s` CSS class is Gmail's email body container.
+- The session is saved with `--persistent` so cookies survive restarts as long as state-load is called.
+- Auth state path is gitignored — do not commit it.