gws-install

gws-install is a skill for Claude Code from jezweb/claude-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,114 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide for installing Google's Workspace command-line tool on another computer using existing OAuth credentials. OAuth credentials are files that let an application securely access approved Google services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the CLI, configure a client-secret file, and authenticate Google Workspace access.
Why use it?
It reduces the setup work when moving the tool to a second machine or reinstalling after an operating-system reset.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the integrations plugin — 9 skills, 8 commands shipped together

not rated 1.0krepo +4 2mo ago B scan Socket: passSnyk: failSkillSpector: warn 82 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to install the CLI, configure a client-secret file, and authenticate Google Workspace access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jezweb/claude-skills/gws-install
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill gws-install
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install integrations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 8 commands.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,114 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 14 May 2026
  • Snyk fail 14 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 12 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 3
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 11
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 19
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 34
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 38
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 65
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 134
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 115
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 38
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 118
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 146
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 151
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00082 $0.01114
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00111

Measured 7d ago against content hash 49b5d4513d52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

gws-install scanned grade B 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 7d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

- Verify: `ls ~/.claude/skills/gws-* | wc -l` should show 30+ directories
plugins/integrations/skills/gws-install/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Workspace CLI — Quick Install

Install gws on an additional machine using OAuth credentials from a previous setup. Produces an authenticated CLI with all agent skills ready to use.

Prerequisite: The user must have client_secret.json from a previous gws-setup (or from Google Cloud Console). If they don't have it, use the gws-setup skill instead.

Workflow

Step 1: Pre-flight Checks

which gws && gws --version
ls ~/.config/gws/client_secret.json
gws auth status

If already authenticated with the right scopes, skip to Step 4.

Step 2: Install the CLI

npm install -g @googleworkspace/cli
gws --version

Step 3: Set Up Credentials

Ask the user to provide their client_secret.json. Three options:

Option A — Paste the JSON content:

Ask the user to paste the JSON. Write it to ~/.config/gws/client_secret.json:

mkdir -p ~/.config/gws

Expected format:

{
  "installed": {
    "client_id": "...",
    "project_id": "...",
    "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
    "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
    "client_secret": "...",
    "redirect_uris": ["http://localhost"]
  }
}

Option B — File path:

If the user has the file locally (e.g. in Downloads):

mkdir -p ~/.config/gws
cp /path/to/client_secret.json ~/.config/gws/client_secret.json

Option C — Environment variables:

export GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_CLIENT_ID="your-client-id"
export GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_CLIENT_SECRET="your-client-secret"

Step 4: Authenticate

IMPORTANT: This step prints a very long OAuth URL (30+ scopes) that the user must open in their browser. The URL is too long to copy from terminal output — it wraps across lines and breaks. Always extract it to a file and open it programmatically.

Ask which Google account to use, then:

  1. Run auth in the background and capture output:
gws auth login -s gmail,drive,calendar,sheets,docs,chat,tasks 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gws-auth-output.txt

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 152 lines · 82 tokens per session scan B 49b5d4513d52

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gws-install is a skill published in the GitHub repository jezweb/claude-skills (1,000 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,114 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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