Google Workspace Skills

Google Workspace skills operate high-trust personal productivity data through scoped read-first procedures and explicit write gates. Source: Skill Registry, 2026-07-15

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 document artifacts inside the container, with a strict render-and-verify workflow. Use `render_docx.py` to ge...
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-targeted decks with presentation-specific storytelling, layout, font-size, overlap, template-following, and artifact-tool wor...
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

2026-07-15 | Regenerated this concise family synthesis page from Skill Registry after archiving verbose retired skill-article bodies to Retired Skill Article Ledger. Source: User request, 2026-06-27
2026-07-15 | Concepts category refresh linked this generated family page to Concept System Map and kept it generated because executable skill source owns the procedure details. Source: User request, 2026-07-01

Source: User request, 2026-06-27