authenticate

authenticate is a skill for Claude Code from reggiechan74/cc-plugins. It costs 36 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for connecting Gmail and Google Calendar to an automation system through Google's sign-in process.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up OAuth credentials, signing in to Gmail and Calendar, and verifying that both connections work.
Why use it?
It supplies the authorization needed for the system to access those services and explains what to check when authentication fails.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

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 google-workspace-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It is for setting up OAuth credentials, signing in to Gmail and Calendar, and verifying that both connections work.

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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 reggiechan74/cc-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install google-workspace-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install google-workspace-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 435 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 $0.00036 $0.00435
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00174
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b0ffa93e0b34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

authenticate 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.

google-workspace-mcp/skills/authenticate/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Google Workspace Authentication

Authenticate the Gmail and Google Calendar MCP servers via OAuth 2.0.

Prerequisites

  1. A Google Cloud Platform project with a Desktop-type OAuth 2.0 Client ID
  2. Download the OAuth JSON and place it in BOTH locations:
    • ~/.gmail-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json
    • ~/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json
  3. Enable these APIs in the GCP project:
    • Gmail API
    • Google Calendar API
    • People API (for contact lookup)

Procedure

  1. Verify OAuth keys exist:

    ls ~/.gmail-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json ~/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json
    
  2. Create config directories if missing:

    mkdir -p ~/.gmail-mcp ~/.calendar-mcp
    
  3. Authenticate Gmail server (opens browser for OAuth consent):

    node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/gmail/index.js auth
    
  4. Authenticate Calendar server:

    node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/calendar/index.js auth
    
  5. Verify credentials were created:

    ls ~/.gmail-mcp/credentials.json ~/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json
    
  6. Test connectivity by running /mcp to reconnect both servers.

  7. Report success/failure to user.

Troubleshooting

  • Port 3000 conflict: lsof -ti:3000 | xargs kill -9 then retry
  • Browser doesn't open: Copy the auth URL from terminal output manually
  • People API error: Ensure People API is enabled in GCP console
  • Token expired: Re-run this authentication flow. Tokens auto-refresh during normal use but may expire after prolonged inactivity.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A b0ffa93e0b34

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authenticate is a skill published in the GitHub repository reggiechan74/cc-plugins (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 435 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 2026-08-31.

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