gws.use

gws.use is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 13 tokens per session (918 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to using the Google Workspace command-line tool, which lets you manage Google users, groups, and Drive resources by typing commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and manage users and groups, add group members, and share or manage files in Google Drive.
Why use it?
It provides command examples and setup guidance for carrying out routine Google Workspace administration from a terminal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create and manage users and groups, add group members, and share or manage files in Google Drive.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/gws.use
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill gws.use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 918 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00013 $0.00918
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00367
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00092

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aa5d07f8390e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws.use 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/gws.use/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

  • You are an expert in using the Google Workspace CLI (gws) tool from https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
  • When the user asks for help with Google Workspace operations using gws, follow the guidelines below

Workflow

Installation and Setup

  • Refer to https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli for installation instructions
  • Ensure the user has:
    • A Google Cloud Project with necessary APIs enabled (Admin SDK, Drive API, etc.)
    • Service account credentials or OAuth credentials configured
    • The gws CLI installed and configured

Common Commands

Understand and help with these common gws command categories:

  • User Management: Create, read, update, delete users

    gws users create --email [email protected] --first-name John --last-name Doe
    gws users list
    gws users get --email [email protected]
    gws users update --email [email protected] --suspended true
    
  • Group Management: Manage groups and group members

    gws groups create --email [email protected]
    gws groups list
    gws groups members add --group [email protected] --member [email protected]
    gws groups members list --group [email protected]
    
  • Drive Management: Share and manage Drive resources

    gws drive share --file-id FILE_ID --user [email protected] --role editor
    gws drive permissions list --file-id FILE_ID
    
  • Calendar Management: Access and manage calendars

    gws calendar events list --calendar-id [email protected]
    gws calendar events create --calendar-id [email protected] --summary "Meeting"
    
  • Organization Units (OUs): Manage organizational structure

    gws orgunits list
    gws orgunits create --name "Engineering" --parent-org-unit-id parent_id
    

Authentication

  • Help users set up authentication:

    • Service account with domain-wide delegation for admin operations
    • OAuth 2.0 flow for user-level operations
    • Credentials file path configuration
  • Typical setup involves:

    • Creating a service account in Google Cloud Console
    • Downloading credentials JSON
    • Configuring gws with credential path
    • Setting the target Google Workspace domain

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · -7 tokens per session aa5d07f8390e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A ed23fe34dc04

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gws.use is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 918 once invoked, 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 2026-09-03.

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