google-calendar-mcp: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/gcal-api-research/SKILL.md

gcal-api-research is a skill for Claude Code from 84emllc/google-calendar-mcp. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,928 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gcal-api-research, MIT.

A structured research guide for implementing Google Calendar API features. It directs developers to investigate official API methods, edge cases, community issues, and recommended patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning, reviewing, validating, or troubleshooting Google Calendar functionality.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of choosing an unsuitable API approach or missing problems with recurring events, time zones, attendees, or batch operations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is 84emllc/google-calendar-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on google-calendar-mcp 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 google-calendar-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to 84emllc/google-calendar-mcp. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/84emllc/google-calendar-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,928 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00082 $0.02928
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01464
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00586
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00293

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3d42c4f958b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gcal-api-research 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 11d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to gcal-api-research — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/gcal-api-research/SKILL.md · 343 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 343 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Calendar API Research

Quick Start

What are you doing?

  • 📝 Reviewing a PR → Read references/research-checklist.md first
  • 🚀 Planning a feature → Start with Step 1 below, then consult relevant references
  • 🐛 Investigating an issue → Check references/edge-cases.md for known pitfalls
  • Validating an approach → Read references/api-patterns.md for best practices

Then follow the detailed workflow below.

Overview

This skill provides a structured approach to researching Google Calendar API implementations, identifying best practices, and uncovering potential edge cases. Use this skill to ensure implementations leverage Google Calendar APIs appropriately with good defaults while supporting complex use cases.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Reviewing PRs that add new Google Calendar functionality (e.g., "feat: add respond-to-event tool")
  • Planning new features before implementation begins
  • Investigating issues with existing Google Calendar integrations
  • Validating implementation approaches against Google Calendar API best practices
  • Researching edge cases for specific calendar operations

This skill is particularly valuable for features involving:

  • Recurring event handling
  • Timezone conversions
  • Batch operations across multiple calendars
  • Event conflict detection
  • Attendee management
  • Conference data integration

Research Workflow

Step 1: Understand the Feature

First, identify what the implementation does or plans to do:

  1. For PR Reviews: Read the PR description and examine the code changes
  2. For Feature Planning: Clarify the requirements and desired functionality
  3. For Issues: Understand the reported problem and expected behavior

Key Questions:

  • What Google Calendar API operations are involved?
  • What user scenarios does this support?
  • What are the critical requirements (performance, reliability, edge cases)?

Step 2: Consult Reference Materials

Read the full file on GitHub · 343 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 343 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 3d42c4f958b4

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gcal-api-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository 84emllc/google-calendar-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,928 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gcal-api-research, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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