gws-sheets-read

gws-sheets-read is a skill for Claude Code from cblecker/claude-plugins. It costs 15 tokens per session (331 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gws-sheets-read, Apache-2.0.

A read-only command for retrieving cell values from a Google Sheets spreadsheet. A range is the set of cells to read, such as Sheet1!A1:B2.

In plain words
What is it for?
Read a selected table, row, column, or sheet and use the values in scripts, reports, or other automated tasks.
Why use it?
It lets a coding agent inspect spreadsheet data without opening the spreadsheet or changing anything in it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **PREREQUISITE:** Read `../gws-shared/SKILL.md` for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run `gws generate-skills` to create it..

Part of the gws plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit Read a selected table, row, column, or sheet and use the values in scripts, reports, or other automated tasks.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cblecker/claude-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cblecker/claude-plugins/gws-sheets-read

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 331 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 $0.00015 $0.00331
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00132
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2308eab56490, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws-sheets-read 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to gws-sheets-read — 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.

gws/skills/gws-sheets-read/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

sheets +read

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

Read values from a spreadsheet

Usage

gws sheets +read --spreadsheet <ID> --range <RANGE>

Flags

Flag Required Default Description
--spreadsheet ✓ — Spreadsheet ID
--range ✓ — Range to read (e.g. 'Sheet1!A1:B2')

Examples

gws sheets +read --spreadsheet ID --range "Sheet1!A1:D10"
gws sheets +read --spreadsheet ID --range Sheet1

Tips

  • Read-only — never modifies the spreadsheet.
  • For advanced options, use the raw values.get API.

See Also

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 First seen · 49 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2308eab56490

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gws-sheets-read is a skill published in the GitHub repository cblecker/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 331 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gws-sheets-read, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.