Manage Drive Docs

Development docs on Google Drive (local sync)

Walking-skeleton workflow for finding, reading, and editing development documentation kept in Google Drive, by going through the local filesystem folder that Google Drive for desktop syncs. No MCP server is used — the agent reads/writes the synced files directly with the standard file tools (Read, Edit, Write, Glob, Grep) for content, and the drive-fs.mjs script (below) for folder/file management (rename, move, delete, list) on WSL where a hand-rolled powershell.exe command gets subtly wrong. This means docs can be edited and saved back, which the read-only Google Drive MCP connector cannot do.

Prerequisites

• Google Drive for desktop must be installed and the relevant docs folder must be synced to the local filesystem (mirroring, not streaming-only). Confirm in Drive for desktop settings that the folder is set to "Mirrored sync" or that the files have been made available offline.
• A driveDocsRootPath should be configured in .claude/scrum-context.json (see hooks/scrum-context.example.json, or run the setup-scrum-context skill to write it). When set, it is injected at session start as <scrum-context><drive-docs-root path="..." /></scrum-context> — check the current context for this before asking the user for a path.

Path format by environment

• Windows native: use the Windows path verbatim, e.g. G:\\マイドライブ (escape backslashes in JSON) or G:\\共有ドライブ\\チームX for a shared drive. A single root or an array of roots is accepted.
• WSL: access the same drive through /mnt/<drive>/..., e.g. /mnt/g/マイドライブ. NTFS-mounted paths can interact poorly with non-ASCII folder names under WSL — the mount can be entirely unreachable (Read/Edit/Write report "file does not exist" even though the file is there). If that happens, use drive-fs.mjs read/write (see below) instead of the standard tools — no need to switch to Windows native Claude or rename the folder first. The skill does not auto-rewrite paths between forms; set the form that matches the environment Claude is running in.

Steps

1. If driveDocsRootPath is available from <scrum-context>, scope searches to that root. When multiple roots are configured, ask the user which one (or search them in turn). If none is configured, ask the user for the absolute path to the synced Drive folder.
2. Find candidate documents:
   • Glob with a pattern like <root>/**/*.md for files by name/extension.
   • Grep across <root> to match content (titles, keywords).
3. Read the document with Read. For native Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, the synced copy on disk is the rendered .gdoc/.gsheet/.gslides shortcut bundle, not the full content — those formats are not regular files on disk and cannot be read this way. Restrict this workflow to normal file types stored in Drive (.md, .txt, .docx, .pdf, etc.). If Read fails on a non-ASCII WSL path (see "Path format by environment" above), use node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/drive/drive-fs.mjs" read <path> instead — it returns {path, ok, bridge, content}.
4. Edit with Edit (or Write for new files) directly under the synced root. Saves go to the local sync folder and propagate back to Drive. If Edit/Write fail on the same non-ASCII WSL path, pipe the full new content on stdin to node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/drive/drive-fs.mjs" write <path> instead.
5. For a minimal end-to-end check ("walking skeleton"), finding, reading, and saving one plain-text document is sufficient.

Folder/file management, and content when the standard tools can't reach it

For structural operations — renaming/moving a folder, deleting something, or listing a directory whose entries include non-ASCII names — use node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/drive/drive-fs.mjs" <subcommand> ... instead of hand-writing a powershell.exe command; Read/Edit/Write cannot do any of this. The same script's read/write subcommands are the fallback for file content specifically when Read/Edit/Write fail on a non-ASCII WSL path that won't mount cleanly under /mnt/<drive> — prefer the standard tools when they work, and reach for drive-fs.mjs only once they've failed. It transparently uses the same /mnt/<drive> → powershell.exe UNC-bridge fallback as the rest of the scrum plugin's Drive tooling, and fixes three mistakes a hand-rolled command makes silently:

1. Non-ASCII filenames garble unless you use this script. Windows PowerShell 5.1's default console encoding is not UTF-8, so a directory listing containing Japanese (or other non-ASCII) names comes back corrupted once captured through Node — drive-fs.mjs list already forces [Console]::OutputEncoding to UTF-8 before listing; a hand-written Get-ChildItem will not, and the corruption is easy to miss until something downstream (a rename, a link) silently targets the wrong path.
2. Never build a bulk/pattern-based delete. No loop over multiple paths, no wildcard, no "delete everything except X" — Claude Code's auto-mode classifier blocks pattern-based bulk destructive operations on Drive content (learned the hard way: a "keep-list" delete loop over a directory was blocked mid-session). Always resolve the exact target first with list, confirm it with the user if there is any doubt it's the right one, then call delete with that one literal path.
3. Never pipe non-ASCII file content through a hand-rolled powershell.exe Get-Content and capture its stdout. It garbles even with [Console]::OutputEncoding forced to UTF-8. drive-fs.mjs read avoids this by copying the file as bytes to a local temp file and reading that instead — don't reimplement the stdout-capture approach yourself.

Failure modes

• Path not found / file unreadable: confirm the folder is mirrored (not streaming-only). In Google Drive for desktop, right-click the file or folder → "Make available offline" (or set the parent to Mirrored sync), then re-run. Streaming-only placeholder files cannot be read by Read.
• No root path configured: fall back to asking the user for the absolute path to the synced Drive folder, or run the setup-scrum-context skill to add driveDocsRootPath to .claude/scrum-context.json.
• Native Google Docs/Sheets/Slides: those are shortcut bundles on disk, not readable/editable files. Open them in the browser instead, or export a plain-text format to the synced folder and edit that.
• WSL encoding issues with non-ASCII paths: for content (Read/Edit/ Write), first try drive-fs.mjs read/write (above) instead — it copies file bytes through the powershell bridge rather than mounting or piping text, so it isn't affected by this. Fall back to Windows native Claude or an ASCII-only folder name under /mnt/<drive>/ only if powershell.exe itself is unreachable (e.g. no WSL interop). For listing/renaming/moving/ deleting folders with non-ASCII names, use drive-fs.mjs (above) as well — it already forces the UTF-8 console encoding fix, so this failure mode does not apply to it.