gws is a command-line tool that provides one interface to Google Workspace services such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, and Admin. People and AI agents use it to automate Workspace tasks and receive structured JSON results, while its commands are generated dynamically from Google's Discovery Service. The catalogue contains skills and instructions for using gws.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to googleworkspace/cli. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleworkspace/cli/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cliWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/googleworkspace/cli/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/googleworkspace/cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/googleworkspace/cli/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/googleworkspace/cli/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/googleworkspace/cli/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.02700 | $0.02700 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01080 | $0.01080 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00540 | $0.00540 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00270 | $0.00270 |
Grade A, and why
cli AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- googleworkspacecli AGENTS.md — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Project Overview
gws is a Rust CLI tool for interacting with Google Workspace APIs. It dynamically generates its command surface at runtime by parsing Google Discovery Service JSON documents.
[!IMPORTANT] Dynamic Discovery: This project does NOT use generated Rust crates (e.g.,
google-drive3) for API interaction. Instead, it fetches the Discovery JSON at runtime and buildsclapcommands dynamically. When adding a new service, you only need to register it incrates/google-workspace/src/services.rsand verify the Discovery URL pattern incrates/google-workspace/src/discovery.rs. Do NOT add new crates toCargo.tomlfor standard Google APIs.
[!NOTE] Package Manager: Use
pnpminstead ofnpmfor Node.js package management in this repository.
Build & Test
[!IMPORTANT] Test Coverage: The
codecov/patchcheck requires that new or modified lines are covered by tests. When adding code, extract testable helper functions rather than embedding logic inmain/runwhere it's hard to unit-test. Runcargo testlocally and verify new branches are exercised.
cargo build # Build in dev mode
cargo clippy -- -D warnings # Lint check
cargo test # Run tests
Changesets
Every PR must include a changeset file. Create one at .changeset/<descriptive-name>.md:
---
"@googleworkspace/cli": patch
---
Brief description of the change
Use patch for fixes/chores, minor for new features, major for breaking changes. The CI policy check will fail without a changeset.
Architecture
The CLI uses a two-phase argument parsing strategy:
- Parse argv to extract the service name (e.g.,
drive) - Fetch the service's Discovery Document, build a dynamic
clap::Commandtree, then re-parse
Workspace Layout
The repository is a Cargo workspace with two crates:
| Crate | Package | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
crates/google-workspace/ |
google-workspace |
Publishable library — core types and helpers |
crates/google-workspace-cli/ |
google-workspace-cli |
Binary crate — the gws CLI |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2mo ago First seen · 240 lines · 2,700 tokens per session scan A 5e64cee7455c
cli AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository googleworkspace/cli (32,131 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,700 tokens to every session, about $0.0108 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
cli AGENTS.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cli AGENTS.mdgoogleworkspace/cli | Instructions file | 32k | 3d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 2,700 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | today | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | today | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | today | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |