gws is a command-line tool that provides one interface to Google Workspace services such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, and Admin. People and AI agents use it to automate Workspace tasks and receive structured JSON results, while its commands are generated dynamically from Google's Discovery Service. The catalogue contains skills and instructions for using gws.
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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/googleworkspace/clinpx agentmods add skills/googleworkspace/cli/gws-driveWrote 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/googleworkspace/cli/gws-drive)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/googleworkspace/cli/gws-drive"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googleworkspace/cli/gws-drive/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/googleworkspace/cli/gws-drive"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googleworkspace/cli/gws-drive.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00016 | $0.03069 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.01228 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00614 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00307 |
Grade A, and why
gws-drive 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.
Copies of this mod
7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
drive (v3)
PREREQUISITE: Read
../gws-shared/SKILL.mdfor auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, rungws generate-skillsto create it.
gws drive <resource> <method> [flags]
Helper Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
+upload |
Upload a file with automatic metadata |
API Resources
about
get— Gets information about the user, the user's Drive, and system capabilities. For more information, see Return user info. Required: Thefieldsparameter must be set. To return the exact fields you need, see Return specific fields.
accessproposals
get— Retrieves an access proposal by ID. For more information, see Manage pending access proposals.list— List the access proposals on a file. For more information, see Manage pending access proposals. Note: Only approvers are able to list access proposals on a file. If the user isn't an approver, a 403 error is returned.resolve— Approves or denies an access proposal. For more information, see Manage pending access proposals.
approvals
get— Gets an Approval by ID.list— Lists the Approvals on a file.
apps
get— Gets a specific app. For more information, see Return user info.list— Lists a user's installed apps. For more information, see Return user info.
changes
getStartPageToken— Gets the starting pageToken for listing future changes. For more information, see Retrieve changes.list— Lists the changes for a user or shared drive. For more information, see Retrieve changes.watch— Subscribes to changes for a user. For more information, see Notifications for resource 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 139 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A d37fad56bb95
gws-drive is a skill published in the GitHub repository googleworkspace/cli (31,612 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 3,069 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 2026-08-30.
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