md-to-google-doc

md-to-google-doc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jtsternberg/claude-plugins. It costs 32 tokens per session (3,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for uploading or synchronizing local Markdown files as formatted Google Docs in Google Drive.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update Google Docs from Markdown files, including documents with multiple tabs or linked sections.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying Markdown into Google Docs and can update an existing document instead of creating duplicates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the gws plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or update Google Docs from Markdown files, including documents with multiple tabs or linked sections.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jtsternberg/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install gws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install gws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,064 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.03064
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01532
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00613
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00306

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9786daf2668c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

md-to-google-doc 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 18 executable files (scripts/adc_create.py, scripts/adc_state.py, scripts/adc-check.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/gws/skills/md-to-google-doc/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Markdown to Google Doc

Upload local markdown files to Google Drive as formatted Google Docs. The best available path depends on which account can authenticate and how much fidelity the target doc needs.

Source routing

gws only authenticates your personal Google account. If the target doc's account isn't reachable by gws, route through the next rung — try in order, and only read/run the next rung's setup on fallthrough.

Rung 1 — gws (default, unchanged)

Use the existing workflow below: full create, update-in-place, tab management, section linking. This is the primary path whenever gws can authenticate to the target account.

Fall through to rung 2 if gws auth status fails or the target account can't reach the destination folder/doc (403/404 for that account, not an expired-token case).

Rung 2 — gcloud ADC (create + update-in-place, for accounts gws can't reach)

Direct Drive/Docs API access via ADC. Supports create (files.create with a markdown upload — same server-side importer gws uses) and update-in-place: a state file (~/.config/gws-md-to-gdoc/rendered.json) remembers which source file produced which doc ID, so reruns update instead of duplicating. Sets PAGELESS via a batchUpdate after create, same as gws.

# Codex: this path resolves under Claude Code; substitute the directory containing this SKILL.md.
SKILL_DIR="${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}"
bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/adc-check.sh"   # fast preflight; exit 0 = configured
bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/adc-create.sh" <file.md> [folder-id-or-url] [--title "Title"] [--new]

--new forces a fresh doc even if the state file has a prior entry for this source file. If adc-check.sh fails, it prints an actionable one-line reason — only then read references/adc-setup.md for the full gcloud setup steps. If ADC isn't configured and setting it up isn't worth it right now, fall through to rung 3.

Not supported on this rung yet: tab-scoped publishing, section linking (both gws-only for now).

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 9d ago First seen · 285 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9786daf2668c

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md-to-google-doc is a skill published in the GitHub repository jtsternberg/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 3,064 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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