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saveEmailAttachment

Save Email Attachment

Save one attachment or inline image from a Gmail message as a Cloud file, by the attachmentId readEmail listed under attachments or inlineImages.

writeexternal

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "save the images from that email", and it calls saveEmailAttachment.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "attachmentId": "<attachmentId>",
    "messageId": "<messageId>"
  },
  "name": "saveEmailAttachment"
}

Arguments

• accountIdstringoptionalConnected account this acts on: an accountId or email from listMailAccounts. Omit for the primary account. Pass the SAME account you found the message / draft / label in: a Gmail id is per-account, so aiming a non-primary id at the…
• attachmentIdstringrequiredThe attachmentId from readEmail's `attachments` or `inlineImages`
• messageIdstringrequiredThe Gmail message ID
• namestringoptionalFilename for the Cloud file. Defaults to the sender's filename, or inline-<contentId>.<ext> for an embedded image.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Declared limits

• attachmentId: minimum length 1
• messageId: minimum length 1
• name: minimum length 1
• name: maximum length 200

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• save the images from that email
• grab the attachment
• pull the screenshots out of the email I sent
• reuse the pictures from that email

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• readEmail
• readFile
• sendEmail
• createDraft

Questions

• What does saveEmailAttachment do?

  Save one attachment or inline image from a Gmail message as a Cloud file, by the attachmentId readEmail listed under attachments or inlineImages. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use saveEmailAttachment from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "save the images from that email", and it calls saveEmailAttachment.

• Is saveEmailAttachment safe to let an AI call?

  saveEmailAttachment changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it. It reaches a system outside The Cloud on your behalf.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.