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-gmail-watchWrote this? Show the measurements
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- 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 | $0.00020 | $0.00539 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00216 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00108 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00054 |
Grade A, and why
gws-gmail-watch 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
6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- gws-gmail-watch — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- gws-gmail-watch — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- gws-gmail-watch — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- gws-gmail-watch — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- gws-gmail-watch — 95% identical, 5 lines differ
- gws-gmail-watch — 86% identical, 12 lines differ
What it actually says
gmail +watch
PREREQUISITE: Read
../gws-shared/SKILL.mdfor auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, rungws generate-skillsto create it.
Watch for new emails and stream them as NDJSON
Usage
gws gmail +watch
Flags
| Flag | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
--project |
— | — | GCP project ID for Pub/Sub resources |
--subscription |
— | — | Existing Pub/Sub subscription name (skip setup) |
--topic |
— | — | Existing Pub/Sub topic with Gmail push permission already granted |
--label-ids |
— | — | Comma-separated Gmail label IDs to filter (e.g., INBOX,UNREAD) |
--max-messages |
— | 10 | Max messages per pull batch |
--poll-interval |
— | 5 | Seconds between pulls |
--msg-format |
— | full | Gmail message format: full, metadata, minimal, raw |
--once |
— | — | Pull once and exit |
--cleanup |
— | — | Delete created Pub/Sub resources on exit |
--output-dir |
— | — | Write each message to a separate JSON file in this directory |
Examples
gws gmail +watch --project my-gcp-project
gws gmail +watch --project my-project --label-ids INBOX --once
gws gmail +watch --subscription projects/p/subscriptions/my-sub
gws gmail +watch --project my-project --cleanup --output-dir ./emails
Tips
- Gmail watch expires after 7 days — re-run to renew.
- Without --cleanup, Pub/Sub resources persist for reconnection.
- Press Ctrl-C to stop gracefully.
See Also
- gws-shared — Global flags and auth
- gws-gmail — All send, read, and manage email commands
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 · 60 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A c59aa44f2278
gws-gmail-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository googleworkspace/cli (31,694 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 539 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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