Google Chat Send Message

Google Chat Send Message is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by googleworkspace in cli.

30.4K stars1.8K forkson googleworkspace/cliAdded 2026/08/14Repository updated 2026/08/01

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Install Google Chat Send Message

Copy Google Chat Send Message into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/tree/main/skills/gws-chat-send ~/.claude/skills/gws-chat-send

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/gws-chat-send/SKILL.md in googleworkspace/cli
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gws-chat-send
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Google Chat Send Message does

Google Chat Send Message posts a plain-text message to a specified Google Chat space via the gws CLI. Use it when an agent needs to notify a team or log a message in Chat.

Google Chat Send Message is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Google Chat Send Message comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, automation, cli and discovery-api.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

chat +send

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

Send a message to a space

Usage

gws chat +send --space <NAME> --text <TEXT>

Flags

Flag	Required	Default	Description
`--space`	✓	—	Space name (e.g. spaces/AAAA...)
`--text`	✓	—	Message text (plain text)

Examples

gws chat +send --space spaces/AAAAxxxx --text 'Hello team!'

Tips

Use 'gws chat spaces list' to find space names.
For cards or threaded replies, use the raw API instead.

[!CAUTION] This is a write command — confirm with the user before executing.

Frequently asked about Google Chat Send Message

What else does googleworkspace publish alongside Google Chat Send Message?
Google Chat Send Message is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from googleworkspace/cli, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Append Text to Google Docs, Create Google Calendar Event and Drive Upload. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Google Chat Send Message does, and is maintained by googleworkspace in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the googleworkspace/cli page.
How does Google Chat Send Message compare to other Automation skills?
Google Chat Send Message ranks #88 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Google Chat Send Message against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.