gws-docs

A command interface for reading and changing Google Docs documents. Google Docs is Google's online word-processing service; this add-on can create blank documents, read documents, apply updates, and append plain text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Create documents, read their latest content, append text, and apply grouped document changes.
Why use it?
It lets scripts and coding agents work with document content without requiring manual editing in a browser. The input does not specify every type of document update supported.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/googleworkspace/cli/gws-docs
Any agent
npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 387 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00011 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash 676eb7a1d9e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws-docs 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 yesterday.

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

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • gws-docs — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • gws-docs — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
  • gws-docs — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • gws-docs — 89% identical, 7 lines differ
  • gws-docs — 88% identical, 6 lines differ
skills/gws-docs/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

docs (v1)

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

gws docs <resource> <method> [flags]

Helper Commands

Command Description
+write Append text to a document

API Resources

documents

  • batchUpdate — Applies one or more updates to the document. Each request is validated before being applied. If any request is not valid, then the entire request will fail and nothing will be applied. Some requests have replies to give you some information about how they are applied. Other requests do not need to return information; these each return an empty reply. The order of replies matches that of the requests.
  • create — Creates a blank document using the title given in the request. Other fields in the request, including any provided content, are ignored. Returns the created document.
  • get — Gets the latest version of the specified document.

Discovering Commands

Before calling any API method, inspect it:

# Browse resources and methods
gws docs --help

# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema docs.<resource>.<method>

Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.

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. yesterday First seen · 50 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 676eb7a1d9e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gws-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository googleworkspace/cli (30,651 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 387 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.