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google-workspacecli-skillsgmail-automationgoogle-drivegoogle-calendarworkflow-recipesproductivity-automation

Summary

Google’s official Workspace CLI ships with 40+ pre-built “recipe” skills that automate common cross-service workflows — from labeling and archiving Gmail to creating Calendar events from Sheets data. The recipes are composable building blocks that chain multiple Google APIs (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Tasks, Meet, Chat, Classroom, Forms, Slides) into single-command operations.

Key Insight

The skill catalog reveals Google’s design philosophy for CLI automation: each recipe is a self-contained SKILL.md file that combines 2-3 API operations into one workflow. The most valuable patterns fall into a few clusters:

  • Email-to-action pipelines: label-and-archive, forward-labeled-emails, save-email-attachments-to-Drive, save-email-to-doc, create-gmail-filter, vacation-responder
  • Cross-service bridges: share-event-materials (Calendar -> Drive sharing), create-events-from-sheet (Sheets -> Calendar), generate-report-from-sheet (Sheets -> Docs), sync-contacts-to-sheet (Contacts -> Sheets), draft-email-from-doc (Docs -> Gmail)
  • Calendar management: block-focus-time, reschedule-meeting, find-free-time, batch-invite-to-event, plan-weekly-schedule
  • Drive operations: organize-drive-folder, bulk-download-folder, find-large-files, create-shared-drive, watch-drive-changes

Notable that Google Tasks integration is included (create-task-list, review-overdue-tasks) alongside Meet space creation and participant review. The post-mortem-setup recipe is interesting as a multi-service orchestration: creates a Doc, schedules a Calendar event, and notifies via Chat in one shot.