Getting it into your agent
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/plugin install google-docs-readerWrote 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/skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/google-docs-reader)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/google-docs-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/google-docs-reader/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/skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/google-docs-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/google-docs-reader.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 | $0.00065 | $0.01923 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00769 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00385 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00192 |
Grade C, and why
google-docs-reader scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.
Recursive force deletehighDestructive command
rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.
rm -rf /tmp/gdoc_exports/ How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Google Docs Reader
Overview
Read and analyze Google Workspace documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides) without direct API access. This skill exports Google Drive documents to local formats by opening export URLs in the browser, monitoring the Downloads folder, and moving files to a temporary directory for processing.
When to Use This Skill
Activate this skill when users ask to:
- Read or summarize Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides
- Extract content from Google Drive URLs
- Analyze
.gdoc,.gsheet, or.gslidesfiles from Google Drive File Stream/Desktop - Process multiple Google Workspace documents
Example user requests:
- "Read this Google Doc and summarize it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/ABC123/edit"
- "What's in this spreadsheet?" (pointing to a
.gsheetfile) - "Analyze the data in this Google Sheets URL"
- "Convert this Google Slides to markdown"
How It Works
The skill uses a browser-based export workflow:
- Extract document ID from URL or
.gdoc/.gsheet/.gslidesfile - Determine document type (Docs, Sheets, or Slides)
- Build export URL with appropriate format (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX)
- Open URL in browser (leverages existing Google account session)
- Monitor Downloads folder for the downloaded file
- Move to temp directory (
/tmp/gdoc_exports/) - Process with document skills (docx, xlsx, pptx skills)
- Clean up temporary file after reading
Export Formats
- Google Docs → DOCX (Microsoft Word format)
- Google Sheets → XLSX (Microsoft Excel format)
- Google Slides → PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint format)
Reading Google Docs
Complete Workflow (Export + Read)
The simplest approach is to use both scripts together:
# 1. Export the Google Doc
EXPORTED=$(python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/google-docs-reader/scripts/export_gdoc.py "<google-drive-url-or-file>")
# 2. Read the exported file
python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/google-docs-reader/scripts/read_exported_doc.py "$EXPORTED"
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 274 lines · 65 tokens per session scan C 4df608b38851
google-docs-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,923 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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