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Google Workspace Skills
Google Workspace skills operate high-trust personal productivity data through scoped read-first procedures and explicit write gates. Source: Skill Registry, 2026-11-02
When To Use This
Use this family for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Tasks operations through read-first Google Workspace workflows.
Core Model
Executable behavior lives in skills/**/SKILL.md. This page owns family-level routing, tradeoffs, and failure modes. Exhaustive inventory lives in Skill Registry. Full retired article bodies live in Retired Skill Article Ledger.
Concept Position
| Axis | Value |
|---|---|
| Family | Generated skill-family synthesis |
| Concept owned | Google Workspace skills operate high-trust personal productivity data through scoped read-first procedures and explicit write gates. |
| Operationalizes into | Skill Registry, Skill Resolver, executable SKILL.md source |
| Use this page when | choosing the right skill family before loading executable source |
Decision Matrix
| Need | Route |
|---|---|
| Confirm account, scope, and target resource first. | Load the named SKILL.md from Skill Registry and use this page for context. |
| Read/list before write. | Load the named SKILL.md from Skill Registry and use this page for context. |
| Use the specific gws-* skill for the product surface. | Load the named SKILL.md from Skill Registry and use this page for context. |
| Use the raw gws CLI only when no skill wrapper exists. | Load the named SKILL.md from Skill Registry and use this page for context. |
| Compile durable personal/team facts back into the wiki or source ledger. | Load the named SKILL.md from Skill Registry and use this page for context. |
Do Not Confuse
- Generic data transforms belong in backend/data routes.
- Current event or travel facts still need live source checks.
- Do not confuse Google Workspace APIs with Firebase or Google Cloud product work.
Tool And Skill Routing
| Skill | Category | Origin | Executable source | Trigger signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| documents | misc | codex-plugin | skills/misc/documents/SKILL.md | Create, edit, redline and comment on .docx, Word and Google Docs-targeted documents, rendering pages with render_docx.py and iterating until the layout is clean. Use when the user asks fo... |
| gmail-cleanup | productivity | personal | skills/productivity/gmail-cleanup/SKILL.md | Keep Kevin's personal Gmail organized with gws: label taxonomy, archiving stragglers, trashing old codes and notifications, handling promotions. Dry-run by default, weekly via launchd. Us... |
| gws | productivity | personal | skills/productivity/gws/SKILL.md | Use for Google Workspace CLI work with Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Tasks, and shared gws authentication/formatting patterns. Read/list first; require confirmation before... |
| presentations | misc | codex-plugin | skills/misc/presentations/SKILL.md | Create, edit and visually verify PowerPoint or Google Slides decks with storytelling, layout, font-size, overlap and template checks. Use for slide decks, .pptx files, presentations or Go... |
| spreadsheets | misc | codex-plugin | skills/misc/spreadsheets/SKILL.md | Use this skill when a user requests to create, modify, analyze, visualize, or work with spreadsheet files (.xlsx, .xls, .csv, .tsv) or Google Sheets-targeted spreadsheet artifacts... |
Failure Modes
- Mutating the wrong account/resource.
- Sending email, invites, file uploads, or document writes without explicit confirmation.
- Dropping IDs/links from proof.
- Leaving useful extracted facts only in the chat transcript.
Timeline
- 2026-11-02 | Regenerated this concise family synthesis page from Skill Registry after archiving verbose retired skill-article bodies to Retired Skill Article Ledger. private page
- 2026-11-02 | Concepts category refresh linked this generated family page to Concept System Map and kept it generated because executable skill source owns the procedure details. private page