Himalaya
CLI to manage emails via IMAP/SMTP. Use himalaya to list, read, write, reply, forward, and search.
Details
Himalaya is a CLI to manage emails via IMAP/SMTP. Use himalaya to list, read, write, reply, forward, and search mailboxes from your OpenClaw agent.
When to use
Use when the agent should handle email via IMAP/SMTP (not Gmail). Good for self-hosted or work mail; pair with humanize/summarize for drafting and triage.
How Himalaya fits into your OpenClaw setup
Productivity skills are usually the reason people install OpenClaw in the first place. They connect the assistant to calendars, notes, tasks, and the daily routines that otherwise eat attention. Himalaya fits this mould: once configured, it removes a recurring context switch by letting you handle the job from the chat window you already have open.
A typical session
Using it is deliberately unremarkable: you send a message, the assistant recognises the job belongs to Himalaya, does it, and tells you what changed. The habit takes about a week to form. After that, the things you used to switch apps for become things you mention in passing — and the assistant picks them up without ceremony.
Installing Himalaya
Setup takes a few minutes. Open a terminal in your OpenClaw directory, run the command below, and restart the assistant so it picks up the new capability. Check the skill's README before first use — if it needs an API key or account access, you want that configured up front.
Then test it. Ask the assistant for something small that exercises the new skill end to end. Skills fail in two ways — not registered, or registered but misconfigured — and a quick first request tells you immediately which situation you are in, if either.
clawhub install himalayaGetting the most out of it
Think of Himalaya as one instrument in an ensemble. OpenClaw's real strength is composition — the assistant combining several skills in a single task because the request demanded it. When you browse the catalogue, look for the skills that complete your workflows, not just the ones that sound impressive in isolation.
Plenty of people configure this themselves over a weekend. If you would rather have it working by Friday, we install OpenClaw, configure skills like Himalaya for your exact workflow, and write custom ones for anything the catalogue does not cover.