Google Drive

Google Drive 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 in seconds

Install Google Drive

Copy Google Drive 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-drive ~/.claude/skills/gws-drive

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

What Google Drive does

Google Drive manages files, folders, and shared drives in Google Workspace using a command-line interface. Use it to automate tasks like uploading, copying, and sharing files.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

drive (v3)

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

gws drive <resource> <method> [flags]

Helper Commands

Command	Description
`+upload`	Upload a file with automatic metadata

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Google Drive

What else does googleworkspace publish alongside Google Drive?
Google Drive 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 Drive 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 Drive compare to other Automation skills?
Google Drive ranks #78 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 Drive against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.