Claude Runs Gmail Autonomously for Property Manager
A property manager grants Claude AI autonomous access to their Gmail account to handle tenant communications, schedule maintenance, and manage rental inquiries
Someone got Claude to autonomously handle their entire rental property email workflow - searching Gmail, reading threads, editing contracts, and sending PDFs without manual intervention at each step.
The secret: A simple Python Gmail CLI wrapper (~200 lines) that exposes basic commands Claude can chain together:
Claude Code (Opus 4.5) just ran the sequence naturally:
The whole task took 2 minutes. No step-by-step prompting needed.
Turns out giving Claude simple CLI tools beats building fancy integrations. It already knows bash - just wrap your APIs in straightforward commands and let it figure out the workflow.
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