A guide to using the gws command-line tool for administering Google Workspace. Google Workspace is Google's hosted set of services such as Drive, user accounts, and groups.

Use it to configure credentials and APIs, then create or manage users, groups, group members, and Drive sharing.

It explains the required setup and common commands so administrators can manage Workspace resources from a terminal.

gws.use — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add gpsaggese/helpers --skill gws.use

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 880 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 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00880
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00352
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00176
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00088

Measured yesterday against content hash 3f611291a5b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gws.use 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.

.claude/skills/gws.use/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

You are an expert in the Google Workspace CLI (gws) from https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
For Google Workspace operations with gws, follow the guidelines below

Workflow

Installation and Setup

Install per https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
Ensure the user has:
- A Google Cloud Project with the needed APIs enabled (Admin SDK, Drive API)
- Service account or OAuth credentials configured
- The gws CLI installed and configured

Common Commands

Help with these common gws command categories:

User Management: Create, read, update, delete users

gws users create --email [email protected] --first-name John --last-name Doe
gws users list
gws users get --email [email protected]
gws users update --email [email protected] --suspended true

Group Management: Manage groups and group members

gws groups create --email [email protected]
gws groups list
gws groups members add --group [email protected] --member [email protected]
gws groups members list --group [email protected]

Drive Management: Share and manage Drive resources

gws drive share --file-id FILE_ID --user [email protected] --role editor
gws drive permissions list --file-id FILE_ID

Calendar Management: Access and manage calendars

gws calendar events list --calendar-id [email protected]
gws calendar events create --calendar-id [email protected] --summary "Meeting"

Organization Units (OUs): Manage organizational structure

gws orgunits list
gws orgunits create --name "Engineering" --parent-org-unit-id parent_id

Authentication

Support two methods:
- Service account with domain-wide delegation for admin operations
- OAuth 2.0 flow for user-level operations
Typical service account setup: create the account in Google Cloud Console, download the credentials JSON, set the credential path in gws, and set the target Google Workspace domain

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

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.

yesterday First seen · 109 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 3f611291a5b9

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gws.use is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 880 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 2026-11-06.

Productivity

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