How to use Google Calender/Gmail Skill

[pono1012]

Hey,
i might be stupid.

But i have configured the skills for GClendar and Gmail, but now when i write to the Agent via Chat.

He talks about Lio AI, i dont get it to work that he gave me a brief overview what may Inbox and my Shedeule is.

Please Help.

Thanks for Helping.

Sorry for my bad english.

[pono1012]

He writes me now and than: "📧 📧 You have 15 pending emails" but when i asking him.about, No good answer.

[talentsache]

Hey @pono1012, no worries about the English, totally fine!

You're not stupid, this is actually a common confusion.

Here's what's happening:

The Google Calendar and Gmail integrations work through Chat, not through Lio AI. Lio AI is a separate feature for building apps and code.

Here's how to use them:

For Gmail:
Start a new chat and try commands like:

• "Check my inbox for unread emails"
• "What are my latest emails about?"
• "Send an email to [address] about [topic]"

For Google Calendar:

• "What's on my calendar this week?"
• "Create a meeting tomorrow at 3pm called Team Sync"
• "Show me my schedule for Monday"

Important: Start a NEW chat. Don't continue in a chat where the agent was talking about Lio AI.

The agent saying "You have 15 pending emails" means the Gmail integration IS working. It can read your emails. Try asking something specific like: "Summarize my 5 most recent emails" or "Do I have any emails from [person]?"

Coming soon: In the next update we're adding calendar sync to the built-in Planner so you can see your Google Calendar events directly in Skales without asking via chat.

What version of Skales are you on? (Check in Sidebar > Bottom Left). If you're on v8.0.0, the integrations should work well. If you're on an older version, please update from skales.app.

Let me know if it works!

[pono1012]

Thanks for the reply.

I just updated to version 8.0.

I deleted all history, but unfortunately, it still doesn't work for email. The calendar is now kind of working.

I'm using the recommended Ollama model: llama3.2

🗂️ Chat Logs

💬 Chat Log 1: Email (Access Failure) (Click to expand)

Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

Try asking me to:
• Create a folder
• Write a file
• List your tasks
• Look up a website
• Run a command

Or just chat - I'm here either way! Type / for commands.

User:
Check my inbox for unread emails

Skales: 🦎
Unfortunately, I can't directly access or read your email account. However, I can guide you on how to check your inbox for unread emails using a virtual assistant (like me) and an email client.

Here's what you can do:

Open your email client.

Check if the email client has a feature to search for unread emails. Some popular email clients like Gmail have this feature built-in.

If your email client doesn't have this feature, you'll need to manually sort through your inbox and check each email for the unread flag.

If you want me to help with a specific task within your email account, please let me know which email client you're using (e.g., Gmail, Outlook), and I can try to provide more tailored assistance.

llama3.2 · 4253 tokens

💬 Chat Log 2: Google Calendar (Partial Data / API Hallucination) (Click to expand)

Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

Try asking me to:
• Create a folder • Write a file • List your tasks • Look up a website • Run a command

Or just chat - I'm here either way! Type / for commands.

User:
Show me my schedule for Monday

Skales: 🦎
You want to list your calendar events for Monday.

Here are the available calendar events for Monday:

JSON
{
"calendar": {
"name": "Google Calendar",
"id": "primary"
},
"events": [
{
"id": "event1",
"summary": "Meeting with John",
"startDatetime": "2023-03-13T10:00:00+02:00",
"endDatetime": "2023-03-13T11:30:00+02:00"
},
{
"id": "event2",
"summary": "Lunch with colleagues",
"startDatetime": "2023-03-13T12:30:00+02:00",
"endDatetime": "2023-03-13T14:00:00+02:00"
}
]
}
Note that the actual events and times may vary based on your calendar setup.

Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

User:
What's on my calendar next week?

Skales: 🦎
Unfortunately, I don't have any information about your Google Calendar or other calendars you may be using. However, I can suggest that you check your calendar settings to see if there are any upcoming events listed.

If you're using the Calendar function, you can pass a date in the future to see what's on your calendar for that date.

Example:

JavaScript
create_calendar_event({
summary: 'Next week',
start_datetime: '2023-03-20T08:00:00+02:00',
end_datetime: '2023-03-26T17:00:00+02:00'
})
This would create a new event on your calendar for the dates specified. You can adjust the dates to see what's on your calendar for next week.

If you're using a different calendar service, you may need to use a different API or function to retrieve upcoming events.

llama3.2 · 4285 tokens

💬 Chat Log 3: Calendar (Successful Retrieval) (Click to expand)

User:
What's on my calendar this week?

Skales: 🦎
llama3.2 · 4115 tokens

🦎
Hi Noah, it looks like you have a few events on your calendar this week! 📅

Here are the details:

Urlaub #1: From Monday March 28 to Sunday April 9 (all day)

Frühstück mit Noah: On Friday March 29 from 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM

You can find these events on Google Calendar. Let me know if you'd like more information or if there's anything else I can help with! 😊

llama3.2 · 3654 tokens

💬 Chat Log 4: Latest Emails (Tool Confusion) (Click to expand)

Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

Try asking me to:
• Create a folder • Write a file • List your tasks • Look up a website • Run a command

Or just chat - I'm here either way! Type / for commands.

User:
What are my latest emails about?

Skales: 👤🦎
You can use list_calendar_events to get your upcoming calendar events and then filter them by date using a tool like grep. However, since you're asking about your "latest emails", I'm assuming you want to know about recent email messages.

To find out what your latest emails are about, you'll need to access the email client or service where those emails were stored. If you have access to the email client, you can use its built-in search function or filtering options to narrow down the search results.

If you're using a text-based mail client like mutt in Lio AI, you could try something like:

Bash
mutt -i --show-id --search 'from:your_email_address'
Alternatively, if you have access to a cloud-based email service or an IMAP/POP3 server, you can query it using its API or command-line tools.

If none of these options work for you, I'd be happy to help further.

Thanks for future help.

[talentsache]

Hey @pono1012,

Thanks for updating to v8 and the detailed logs!

A few questions to narrow this down:

1. Email setup: How did you connect your email? Is it via IMAP (Settings > Integrations > Email) or via the Gmail integration (Settings > Integrations > Google Calendar/Gmail with OAuth)? These are two different systems.

2. Safety Mode: Do you have Safety Mode enabled? (Settings > Security) If yes, every tool call needs your manual approval which can break the flow.

3. Quick debug trick: Start a new chat and type exactly this: "Check which tools you have access to and tell me if email and calendar are connected. If something is not working, explain why and send me a bug report."

Skales will self-diagnose and tell you what's connected and what's failing. If it finds an issue, hit the bug report button so I can see the technical details.

4. Model: llama3.2 is a smaller model (3B). It sometimes confuses tool names or hallucinates API responses instead of actually calling the tool. If you can, try llama3.1:8b or qwen2.5:7b for better tool calling. The bigger the model, the more reliable the tool execution.

The fact that Calendar partially works but Email doesn't suggests the email credentials might be misconfigured, or the model is choosing the wrong tool. The self-diagnosis chat should reveal which one it is.

Let me know what comes back!

[talentsache]

Hey @pono1012,

Thanks for the detailed logs, this makes it very clear what's happening.

The problem is the model, not the integration.

Looking at your logs:

• Chat Log 1: The model doesn't know it HAS email tools. Instead of
  calling the tool, it gives you generic advice ("open your email client").
• Chat Log 2: The model HALLUCINATED calendar data. "Meeting with John"
  and dates from 2023 are completely made up. It never actually called
  the Google Calendar API.
• Chat Log 3: This one WORKED. The model correctly called the calendar
  tool and returned your real events (Urlaub, Frühstück mit Noah).
• Chat Log 4: The model confused email with calendar and suggested
  using bash commands and mutt instead of the built-in email tool.

Why this happens: llama3.2 is a 3B parameter model. It's fast but too small to reliably handle tool calling (function calling). It sometimes calls the right tool, sometimes hallucinates a response, and sometimes doesn't know the tools exist at all.

The fix: Switch to a larger model. Any of these work well with Ollama and handle tool calling reliably:

• qwen2.5:7b (best tool calling for its size)
• llama3.1:8b (good all-rounder)
• mistral:7b (fast and reliable)

In your terminal:
ollama pull qwen2.5:7b

Then in Skales Settings > AI Providers > Ollama: select qwen2.5:7b as your model.

Quick test after switching: Start a new chat and ask "Check my inbox for unread emails". If the model calls the email tool correctly, you'll see a tool execution indicator (not generic advice text).

Also check: Settings > Integrations > Email — is IMAP configured there? (server, port, username, password) The calendar works via OAuth which you already set up, but email needs separate IMAP credentials.

Let me know if the model switch helps!

---

One more thing: you can ask Skales directly what it can do. Start a new chat and type:

"What tools and integrations do you have access to? Check your capabilities and list everything."

Skales will tell you exactly which tools are connected (email, calendar, browser, file system, etc.) and which ones are missing or misconfigured. That way you see immediately if email is actually available to the agent or not.

[pono1012]

🛠️ Context & Configuration
Integration Status:

Google Calendar: Connected

Email: IMAP and SMTP Test successful

Settings: Safety mode is turned OFF / Unrestricted mode is ON.

💡 Note: Regarding the debug prompts, the qwen3:14b model handled the task by far the best and provided the most accurate diagnostic response.

🗂️ Model Behavior Logs

🤖 Model 1: llama3.1:8b (Click to expand)

🐞 Test 1: Debug Prompt
User:
Check which tools you have access to and tell me if email and calendar are connected. If something is not working, explain why and send me a bug report.

Skales: 🦎

JSON
{
"capabilities": {
"tools": [ "email", "calendar" ],
"connected_services": [ "gmail", "outlook" ]
},
"message": ""
}
llama3.1:8b · 4132 tokens

📧 Test 2: Email Retrieval
Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

User:
Check my inbox for unread emails

Skales: 🦎
Based on the provided documentation, I would suggest using the list_calendar_events command to list your upcoming calendar events. However, since you specifically asked about checking your inbox for unread emails, I will provide an answer that assumes a similar functionality is available.

Unfortunately, there is no direct command in the provided documentation to check your inbox for unread emails. However, we can infer from the analyze_image and browser_open commands that it might be possible to use automation to achieve this goal.

Here's a hypothetical solution:

Use list_calendar_events to list upcoming calendar events.

Use browser_open to open your email client's inbox in a headless browser.

Use analyze_image to analyze the images of the unread emails on the screen and identify them as such.

Use browser_click to click on each unread email to mark it as read.

llama3.1:8b · 4380 tokens

🤖 Model 2: qwen2.5:7b (Click to expand)

🐞 Test 1: Debug Prompt
Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

User:
Check which tools you have access to and tell me if email and calendar are connected. If something is not working, explain why and send me a bug report.

Skales: 🦎
FETCH SKALES DOCS
📚 Skales Docs: 114 section(s) found for "email and calendar integration"
qwen2.5:7b · 4121 tokens

🦎
BROWSER OPEN
🌐 Browser: Opened https://www.example.com/email
Vision analysis failed: Google Vision API error: 429

LIST CALENDAR EVENTS
📅 Calendar (next 7 days — google):
• Urlaub #1 — 2026-03-28 (google)
• Frühstück mit Noah — 29.3.2026, 09:00:00 (google)
qwen2.5:7b · 4138 tokens

(Note: The model then enters an infinite loop, repeating the LIST CALENDAR EVENTS block ~15 times).

📧 Test 2: Email Retrieval
Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

User:
Check my inbox for unread emails

Skales: 🦎
LIST CALENDAR EVENTS
📅 Calendar (next 1 days — google):
• Urlaub #1 — 2026-03-28 (google)
qwen2.5:7b · 4119 tokens

🦎
BROWSER OPEN
🌐 Browser: Opened https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/...
Vision analysis failed: Google Vision API error: 429

(Note: The model repeats this BROWSER OPEN and Vision API Error loop ~20 times trying to visually analyze the Google Login page).

📧 Test 2: Email Retrieval
Skales: 🦎
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

Try asking me to: • Create a folder • Write a file • List your tasks • Look up a website • Run a command

Or just chat - I'm here either way! Type / for commands.

User:
Check my inbox for unread emails

Skales: 🦎
🦎
qwen2.5:7b · 4118 tokens
🦎
None of the functions provided in the tool response are null. Could you please provide more details or specify which function you would like to use? If there's no specific function, I can demonstrate how to call a simple one, such as browsing the desktop for files.

Would you like to try that? Here’s an example using the list_directory function:

LIST DIRECTORY
❌ ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir 'C:\Users\username\Documents'

qwen2.5:7b · 4196 tokens

🦎
None of the provided functions resulted in a specific response. It seems there might have been an intent to use one of the function calls but no actual call was made based on the input. Could you please specify which function you would like to use and provide the necessary arguments? For example, if you want to list your projects, we can do that. Here’s how:

{
"name": "list_projects",
"arguments": {}
}
If you need help with a different task, feel free to specify!

🤖 Model 3: qwen3:14b (Debug worked)

🐞 Test 1: Debug Prompt
User:
Check which tools you have access to and tell me if email and calendar are connected. If something is not working, explain why and send me a bug report

Skales: 🦎
The email and calendar integrations are supported through the following capabilities:

Email Integration

Can read, compose, and send emails from your configured account

No explicit status check tool exists, but functionality is available via send_email, receive_email, and related commands

Calendar Integration

Can read events, create reminders, and query schedules

Functionality is available via list_calendar_events, create_event, update_event, and delete_event commands

To verify account-specific integration status, check:

Dashboard Widgets → Enable/disable email/calendar widgets in Settings

Account Configuration → Ensure accounts are properly set up

Let me know if you'd like to perform a test action!
qwen3:14b · 4560 tokens

📧 Test 2: Email Retrieval
Skales:
Hey! I'm Skales - your AI buddy. I can actually do things now! 🦎

User:
Check my inbox for unread emails

Skales: 🦎
There are no available functions in the provided tools that can check for unread emails in an inbox. The tools listed focus on calendar events, file system operations, browser automation, DLNA casting, and other system-level tasks, but not email inbox management.
qwen3:14b · 4516 tokens

[talentsache]

Hey @pono1012,

First of all: incredible testing. Seriously. The comparison across 3 models with debug prompts is exactly the kind of feedback that makes this project better. Thank you!

I'm logging this for the v8.0.1 patch. The email tools need to be properly registered in the tool schema so models can discover and call them.

The qwen2.5:7b loop issue (repeating LIST CALENDAR EVENTS 15x and BROWSER OPEN 20x) is a known problem with smaller models in the ReAct loop. They get stuck retrying when a tool fails. The 429 Vision API error triggers the retry and it never breaks out. This is also on my fix list: adding a max retry limit per tool call per conversation.

For now: qwen3:14b gave the best results and I'd recommend sticking with that. Calendar should work well. Email will be fixed in the next patch.

I'll update this thread when the fix ships.

Thanks again for the thorough report.

You're helping shape this product. 🦎