cli: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cli CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from googleworkspace/cli. It costs 20 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A short contribution rule for the Google Workspace CLI repository. It says contributors must follow the repository's AGENTS.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Working on that repository when its contribution rules are needed.
Why use it?
It points contributors to the project's main instructions before they change code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is googleworkspace/cli's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cli itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cli configures →

About the project

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.

googleworkspace/cli · 32,131 stars · on GitHub · developers.google.com

Reuse

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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleworkspace/cli/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 20 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00020
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00008
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00004
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00002

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 03046a60fcbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli CLAUDE.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 2 lines

What it actually says

When contributing to this repository, you must strictly follow all guidelines outlined in the AGENTS.md file.

Changes

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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 2 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 03046a60fcbd

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cli CLAUDE.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 20 tokens to every session, about $0.0001 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.

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