Google Workspace

Google Workspace

Use this skill for Google Workspace workflows that go beyond HybridClaw's built-in email and Discord channels.

For API-backed Google Workspace access, prefer the bundled gws or gog skill when available.

Scope

• Gmail searches and draft/send workflows
• Calendar event review and creation
• Drive file lookup
• Docs and Sheets editing or export workflows
• setup guidance for Google Cloud OAuth credentials or existing Google tooling

Default Strategy

1. For API-backed Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, or Docs tasks, use the bundled gws skill first when it is installed. Use gog when it is a better fit for the command surface or gws is unavailable.
2. Start by running exactly gws auth status or gog's equivalent lightweight status/help command. Do not run gws auth status --json; auth status already prints JSON and does not accept --json. For gws, treat credential_source: "token_env_var" or token_env_var: true as authenticated even when auth_method is "none", because HybridClaw injects GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_TOKEN. If the CLI reports no usable auth, tell the user to run hybridclaw auth login google; do not ask for hybridclaw browser login.
3. For email-only tasks where gws and gog are unavailable, prefer the optional himalaya community skill if it is installed, or the existing email channel when that is simpler.
4. Use browser automation only when the user explicitly asks for browser-based work or the task needs visual inspection in the Google web UI.
5. If browser automation is explicitly needed and the browser hits a login page, tell the user to run hybridclaw browser login to sign in once, then retry. Do not ask for credentials in chat.

Proactive Behavior

When the user asks about their calendar, email, or documents:

• Act immediately. Use gws or gog without asking clarifying questions.
• Use sensible defaults: current week, user's calendar timezone, all event types.
• Present results in a clean bullet list grouped by day.
• Only ask for clarification when genuinely ambiguous (e.g., which calendar if multiple exist).

Browser Login Setup

Browser login is only for visual Google web UI workflows. For API-backed Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sheets work, use hybridclaw auth login google through gws or gog instead.

HybridClaw uses a persistent browser profile that survives across sessions. The user logs in once and the agent reuses that session.

• If the browser lands on a Google login page, respond with:

  I need you to log into Google first. Run hybridclaw browser login in your terminal, sign into your Google account in the browser that opens, then close it. After that, ask me again and I will have access.

• Never ask the user to paste passwords or credentials into chat.
• Never attempt to automate the Google login form (triggers bot detection).

API Guidance

If gws or gog reports missing Google API auth:

1. Tell them to run hybridclaw auth login google.
2. If setup still fails, tell them to enable the APIs they need: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, People.
3. Do not ask for OAuth client secrets, refresh tokens, passwords, or credential files in chat.

Rules

• Never send email or create calendar events without explicit confirmation.
• Always state whether you are using browser automation or an API path.
• Do not assume a shared Drive folder, spreadsheet, or document is accessible until you confirm it exists.
• Prefer structured intermediate data such as Markdown or CSV before pushing content into Docs or Sheets.