google-chat

google-chat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pbc-os/smb-starter-kit. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,152 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Google Chat assistant for small business teams using Google Workspace, Google's set of work tools. It works with chat spaces, which are shared team conversation areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to send messages, list and inspect chat spaces, post updates, run daily standups, and coordinate team conversations.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manage team messages manually through separate commands. It also helps keep updates and daily standups in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to send messages, list and inspect chat spaces, post updates, run daily standups, and coordinate team conversations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit/google-chat
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pbc-os/smb-starter-kit --skill google-chat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pbc-os/smb-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,152 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 $0.00038 $0.02152
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01076
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00215

Measured 8d ago against content hash cbd31ad0eea9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-chat 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 8d 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.

skills/tier-2-communication/google-chat/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Chat

Team messaging for small businesses using Google Workspace.

Uses the gws CLI for all Chat operations. See the google-workspace skill for setup. For platform-agnostic team messaging best practices, see SMB Team Messaging — it applies to both Google Chat and Slack.

Triggers

  • "send a chat message"
  • "post to [space/channel]"
  • "message the team"
  • "set up chat spaces"
  • "post an update"
  • Any request involving Google Chat spaces or messages

Prerequisites

  • gws CLI installed and authenticated with Chat scope
  • Run gws auth login -s chat if not already done
  • Google Workspace account (Chat is not available on free Gmail)

Core Commands

# Send a message to a space
gws chat +send

# List spaces you're in
gws chat spaces list

# Get space details
gws chat spaces get --params '{"name": "spaces/SPACE_ID"}'

# List messages in a space
gws chat spaces messages list --params '{"parent": "spaces/SPACE_ID"}'

# Create a message
gws chat spaces messages create \
  --params '{"parent": "spaces/SPACE_ID"}' \
  --json '{"text": "Your message here"}'

# Reply in a thread
gws chat spaces messages create \
  --params '{"parent": "spaces/SPACE_ID"}' \
  --json '{"text": "Thread reply", "thread": {"name": "spaces/SPACE_ID/threads/THREAD_ID"}}'

SMB Space Structure

Recommended spaces for small businesses

Space Purpose Who's In Agent Posts
Daily Briefing Morning digest + EOD summary Everyone Automated daily
General Company-wide announcements Everyone Major alerts only
Orders Order updates, fulfillment Ops team Order alerts
Sales Revenue, transactions, wins Leadership Daily numbers
Inventory Stock levels, vendor orders Purchasing + ops Low stock alerts
Ops Log Shift notes, equipment, facilities Ops team Shift reminders

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 8d ago First seen · 238 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A cbd31ad0eea9

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google-chat is a skill published in the GitHub repository pbc-os/smb-starter-kit (10 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,152 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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