Add Gcal Tool

Add Google Calendar Tool (OneCLI-native)

This skill wires @cocal/google-calendar-mcp into selected agent groups. The MCP server reads stub credentials containing the onecli-managed placeholder; the OneCLI gateway intercepts outbound calls to calendar.googleapis.com / oauth2.googleapis.com and swaps the bearer for the real OAuth token from its vault.

Why this package (and not gongrzhe's): @gongrzhe/server-calendar-autoauth-mcp only supports the primary calendar and exposes 5 tools (no list_calendars). @cocal/google-calendar-mcp explicitly supports multi-calendar and multi-account, and is actively maintained.

Tools exposed (surfaced as mcp__calendar__<name>, exact set depends on version — run tools/list against the MCP server to enumerate): list-calendars, list-events, search-events, create-event, update-event, delete-event, get-event, list-colors, get-freebusy, get-current-time, plus multi-account management tools.

Why this pattern: v2's invariant is that containers never receive raw API keys (CHANGELOG 2.0.0). Same stub pattern /add-gmail-tool uses. This skill is deliberately a sibling, not a combined "Google Workspace" skill — installs independently and removes cleanly.

Phase 1: Pre-flight

Verify OneCLI has Google Calendar connected

onecli apps get --provider google-calendar

Expected: "connection": { "status": "connected" } with scopes including calendar.readonly and calendar.events.

If not connected, tell the user:

Open the OneCLI web UI at http://127.0.0.1:10254, go to Apps → Google Calendar, and click Connect. Sign in with the Google account the agent should act as. calendar.readonly + calendar.events are the minimum useful scopes.

Verify stub credentials exist

The stub lives at ~/.calendar-mcp/ by convention (shared with /add-gmail-tool's sibling). cocal doesn't default to this path (it uses ~/.config/google-calendar-mcp/tokens.json) — we override via env vars below so it reads our stubs instead.

ls -la ~/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json ~/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json 2>&1

If both exist with onecli-managed:

grep -l onecli-managed ~/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json ~/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json

...skip to Phase 2. If either file has real credentials (no onecli-managed), STOP — back up and delete before proceeding.

If absent, write them:

mkdir -p ~/.calendar-mcp
cat > ~/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json <<'EOF'
{
  "installed": {
    "client_id": "onecli-managed.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    "client_secret": "onecli-managed",
    "redirect_uris": ["http://localhost:3000/oauth2callback"]
  }
}
EOF
cat > ~/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json <<'EOF'
{
  "access_token": "onecli-managed",
  "refresh_token": "onecli-managed",
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expiry_date": 99999999999999,
  "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events"
}
EOF
chmod 600 ~/.calendar-mcp/*.json

Verify mount allowlist covers the path

cat ~/.config/nanoclaw/mount-allowlist.json

~/.calendar-mcp must sit under an allowedRoots entry.

Check agent secret-mode

For each target agent group, confirm OneCLI will inject the Google Calendar token:

onecli agents list

secretMode: all is sufficient. If selective, explicitly assign the Calendar secret.

Phase 2: Apply Code Changes

Check if already applied

grep -q 'CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION' container/Dockerfile && \
echo "ALREADY APPLIED — skip to Phase 3"

Add MCP server to Dockerfile

Edit container/Dockerfile. Find the pinned-version ARG block and add:

ARG CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION=2.6.1

If /add-gmail-tool has already been applied, the pnpm global-install block already exists with its zod-to-json-schema@3.22.5 pin. Just append the calendar package — the calendar-mcp uses zod@4.x and does NOT need that pin, but it's harmless to share the block:

RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pnpm \
    pnpm install -g \
        "@gongrzhe/server-gmail-autoauth-mcp@${GMAIL_MCP_VERSION}" \
        "@cocal/google-calendar-mcp@${CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION}" \
        "zod-to-json-schema@3.22.5"

If /add-gmail-tool hasn't been applied, install Calendar standalone:

RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pnpm \
    pnpm install -g "@cocal/google-calendar-mcp@${CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION}"

No TOOL_ALLOWLIST edit needed. container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts derives the allow-pattern dynamically from each group's mcpServers map (Object.keys(this.mcpServers).map(mcpAllowPattern)), so registering calendar in Phase 3 automatically allows mcp__calendar__*. Earlier versions of this skill instructed a static TOOL_ALLOWLIST edit — that's now redundant.

Rebuild the container image

./container/build.sh

Phase 3: Wire Per-Agent-Group

For each agent group, persist two changes to the central DB (data/v2.db): the mcpServers.calendar entry and an additionalMounts entry for .calendar-mcp. Both flow through materializeContainerJson on every spawn, so editing groups/<folder>/container.json by hand does not stick — that file is regenerated from the DB.

Register the MCP server

For each chosen <group-id> (use ncl groups list to enumerate):

ncl groups config add-mcp-server \
  --id <group-id> \
  --name calendar \
  --command google-calendar-mcp \
  --args '[]' \
  --env '{"GOOGLE_OAUTH_CREDENTIALS":"/workspace/extra/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json","GOOGLE_CALENDAR_MCP_TOKEN_PATH":"/workspace/extra/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json"}'

Approval behaviour depends on where you run it: from inside an agent's container ncl write verbs are approval-gated (admin approves before it lands); from a host operator shell with full scope, it executes immediately. Either way, the response tells you which path it took.

Add the .calendar-mcp mount

There is no ncl groups config add-mount verb yet (tracked in #2395). Until that ships, edit the DB directly via the in-tree wrapper (scripts/q.ts — setup/verify.ts:5 codifies that NanoClaw avoids depending on the sqlite3 CLI binary, so don't shell out to it):

GROUP_ID='<group-id>'
HOST_PATH="$HOME/.calendar-mcp"
MOUNT=$(jq -cn --arg h "$HOST_PATH" '{hostPath:$h, containerPath:".calendar-mcp", readonly:false}')
pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "UPDATE container_configs \
  SET additional_mounts = json_insert(additional_mounts, '\$[#]', json('$MOUNT')), \
      updated_at = datetime('now') \
  WHERE agent_group_id = '$GROUP_ID';"

Run from your NanoClaw project root (where data/v2.db lives). The $[#] placeholder is SQLite JSON1's append-to-end notation; it's \$-escaped so bash doesn't arithmetic-expand it before sqlite sees it. updated_at is ISO-string everywhere else in the schema, so use datetime('now') — not strftime('%s','now'), which would silently mix epoch ints into a column of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS strings.

Switch to ncl groups config add-mount once #2395 lands. Update this skill at that time.

containerPath is relative (mount-security rejects absolute paths — additional mounts land at /workspace/extra/<relative>).

Why this can't be groups/<folder>/container.json: post-migration 014-container-configs, materializeContainerJson in src/container-config.ts rewrites that file from the DB on every spawn. Anything hand-edited there is silently overwritten on next restart.

Same-group-as-gmail tip: if this group already has the gmail MCP + .gmail-mcp mount, both coexist — ncl groups config add-mcp-server only updates the named entry, and json_insert appends to additional_mounts without disturbing existing entries.

Phase 4: Build and Restart

pnpm run build

Run from your NanoClaw project root:

source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux

Kill any existing agent containers so they respawn with the new mcpServers config:

docker ps -q --filter 'name=nanoclaw-v2-' | xargs -r docker kill

Phase 5: Verify

Test from a wired agent

Send: "list my calendars" or "what's on my work calendar next Monday?".

First call takes 2–3s while the MCP server starts and OneCLI does the token exchange.

Check logs if the tool isn't working

tail -100 logs/nanoclaw.log | grep -iE 'calendar|mcp'

Common signals:

• command not found: google-calendar-mcp → image not rebuilt.
• ENOENT ...credentials.json → mount missing. Check the mount allowlist.
• 401 Unauthorized from *.googleapis.com → OneCLI isn't injecting; verify agent's secret mode and that Google Calendar is connected.
• Agent says "I don't have calendar tools" → the calendar MCP server isn't registered in this group's mcpServers (re-run the ncl groups config add-mcp-server step in Phase 3 for that group and restart it), or the agent-runner image is stale (./container/build.sh, --no-cache if suspicious).

Removal

1. For each group that had Calendar wired, remove the MCP server from the DB:

   ncl groups config remove-mcp-server --id <group-id> --name calendar
   

2. Remove the .calendar-mcp mount from the DB (no remove-mount verb yet — same #2395 dependency):

   pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "UPDATE container_configs \
     SET additional_mounts = (SELECT json_group_array(value) FROM json_each(additional_mounts) \
                              WHERE json_extract(value, '\$.containerPath') != '.calendar-mcp'), \
         updated_at = datetime('now') \
     WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>';"
   

3. Remove CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION ARG and the calendar package from the Dockerfile install block.
4. pnpm run build && ./container/build.sh && systemctl --user restart "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)".
5. Optional: rm -rf ~/.calendar-mcp/ and onecli apps disconnect --provider google-calendar.

No TOOL_ALLOWLIST removal step — Phase 2 no longer edits it.

Credits & references

• MCP server: @cocal/google-calendar-mcp — MIT-licensed, actively maintained, multi-account and multi-calendar.
• Why not gongrzhe: earlier versions of this skill used @gongrzhe/server-calendar-autoauth-mcp@1.0.2 which only supports the primary calendar with 5 event-level tools. The cocal server supersedes it.
• Skill pattern: direct sibling of /add-gmail-tool; same OneCLI stub mechanism.