Google’s New Tool Just 10x’d Claude Code

Google just dropped what some are already calling the most powerful workspace CLI on the internet. So if you've got a ton of stuff that lives in the Google environment just like I do, then you're going to love this because now any of my cloud code projects can access everything. And all I had to do was install one simple thing. So here you can see I said what can you do with GWS which is Google Workspace CLI. So it can search, list, upload, download, move, copy, share anything in my Google Drive. It can do anything in my Gmail. calendar. It can do anything with Google Docs. Same thing with Sheets. Same thing with Slides. And it also has multi-step workflow recipes. So, these are basically like skills. These are chain command patterns for common tasks like creating docs from templates, reading sheet data, and creating a report doc, finding free time, and scheduling a meeting. And there are over a hundred of these that it actually has. So, out of the box, when you give Claude Code the GWS CLI, you can do anything across any of the tools. And you also have access to over a 100 skills. So, I don't know how many times you guys have tried to use something like Claude or Naden to

build you a Google doc and you do this over API and it ends up just looking like something like this. It literally just looks like raw markdown and it's obviously horrible. And sometimes to go along with a YouTube video, I make resource guides that look like this, but obviously they have to be formatted. I've got like a header up here and I've got links and different things in this format. But now I can literally just take the link to a YouTube video. I can drop that into Cloud Code and say, "Create me a YouTube resource guide. " It's going to go ahead and download that transcript from the video. And now what it's doing is it's creating the Google doc, not via API call, not via MCP, but via a bash command, meaning it's literally running a terminal command in order to talk to Google and make this. So, it just actually created the doc. Here's the ID. And now it's going to populate it with what I need. And now it finished this up. It gave me the link. I'll click into this. And we can see, boom, we have an actual resource guide. It's got the image inserted up here as a header. It's got a link that goes right back to my YouTube channel. It breaks down the market traditional automation. It goes through all this stuff and then even has my CTA at the bottom as you can see after all these horizontal lines to join the plus group. So that was obviously just one quick example, but

there's so many different benefits here using this Workspace CLI. The first one is that you have one interface. So basically, like I said, it was one GWS CLI that Cloud Code now has access to and it can access my Gmail, my Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Admin, and more. It's also JSON first with structured responses. So our AI agent is really, really good at working with it. We have autodiscocovery, meaning the CLI is pretty much always going to stay up to date automatically. Pretty much zero maintenance because we authenticate and then we're going to be good to go. It has built-in skills for triage, for prep, for generations. Like I said, there's 100 others. And it's not much overhead because it's basically just one tool. It's not the same as like having all these different API endpoints or all of these different MCP configs and tools that would take up more context. But I know you're probably wondering, what is a CLI? It stands for command line interface. And what we're typically used to is a GUI or a graphical user interface where we can see buttons, we can see form fields, and we can click on things, and that's how we navigate, but computers are more navigating by text and by commands and by typing. So that's really all that a CLI is. And this is an open- source Google Workspace product, and obviously it's completely free. So

I'll leave a link to this GitHub repository down in the description if you want to check it out, read more about it. But I'm also going to walk through some of the key details right here. The first thing that I wanted to show you is if you go down here to the skills, this is where we can actually see all of the different kind of recipes they call them for pre-made multi-step workflows that it has. As you can see, creating events from sheets, creating presentations, creating meat space, label and archiving emails. There's so many different patterns that you might use from this pre-built library. Now, if we keep scrolling down, what you'll also notice is that right here it says this is not an officially supported Google product. Now, that doesn't mean that it's unsafe. This is an actual Google product, but the reason why it's not officially supported is because right now it's more of like an open- source beta. It's kind of a developer playground rather than like an enterprisebacked software. And you can see right here that it also says this project is under active development. Expect breaking changes as we march towards v 1. 0. So this thing's already really good out of the box and it's only going to get better. And you can see, like I said, when Google Workspace adds an API endpoint or method, GWS picks it up automatically. So you might as well chuck it into cloud code right now and start getting used to it. Okay, so I

just uninstalled this so I can walk you guys through step by step how this actually works. It's super easy. What I do is I basically copy the link to this GitHub repository as you can see. And I'm going to basically just give it to Cloud Code and say, "Hey, I want to install this GWS CLI, read through the documentation, and help me install everything that I need to install, and then we're going to get set up. " So, this is basically going to do all the research for me, and then all I have to do is follow its instructions. So, it read the docs. It's looking at what we already have installed. It basically saw that I already had some of the prerequisites. So if you don't have those, you'll have to install those. And then it told me that we needed to install the CLI. So it did that. And now we have two options. So the first one is to install G-Cloud CLI so that we have automatic setup and off. Or we could do it manually by creating our own project and whatnot. So let's just go ahead and try option A. Okay. I thought this was going to be just like a simple command that it ran and then we were good. But it's actually like some other thing to install. So let's actually go back and try manual and I'll just show you guys I guess the harder way. Okay. So, I'm going to go to this link, go to our Google Cloud Console, and make sure you're signed in with the right account up in the top right. And I'm just going to go ahead and create a new project just to show you guys what this would look like. So, new project. I'm going to call this one Claude Code GWS. And we're just going to go ahead and create this project. So, this is spinning up right now as you can see. And now that it has been created, I'm going to select it so we're inside of it. And then I'm going to go up here and type in APIs and services. Click on that. And we have to set up our OOTH consent screen. So, I'll click on this and it's going to say get started. Click on that. We have to give our app a name. And then we have to choose an audience. So, I'm just going to do internal because I only need this right now for my own organization. If you want to do external, it'll basically have you do testing or published. And if you do testing, just make sure that you add your email as a test user. And then all you have to do after you put in your contact information is hit I agree. And then you go ahead and create that. Now, once that has been done, you're going to go to create a client ID. So, I'm going to go back into APIs and services. I'm going to go to credentials, and then I'm going to go ahead and do a create credential oath client ID. Now, in here, we're going to choose a desktop app. I'm going to just call this GWS and go ahead and hit create. And now, we have our client ID and our client secret. And so, what you're going to do is download this as a JSON file. Now, you can see here that it says to download that file and save it to your global. config/GWS. So basically if you can't find this just say hey can you give that to me in a full path and then you can paste that into your finder or your file explorer and it will take you there. It will probably look something like this and then you just drag in that credential thing. I called mine client secret and cloud code will be able to look at this globally now. And so what you'll notice is that we didn't in this project yet enable these APIs. So let me just show you what happens without that. So it says the last step is to run gws o login. So I just said hey I finished option B. the credentials are called client secret and then I told it to run the o login. So that should basically open up a tab for you. But if it doesn't then you can ask for it to give you that URL so that you can actually authenticate in. So you would basically choose your account that you want to use and then you just have to basically confirm that it can access all of these different things as you can see. And then when you hit allow you should be properly authenticated. After that it's going to come back and say okay cool. Let me see if everything works. Now, this hasn't been perfect on the first try every time, but if you just go back and forth a little bit, say, "Hey, that didn't work. Hey, this is what I'm seeing. " It will be able to get you there. It's going to be your best friend for something like this because remember, it can read all of the actual documentation. And now it says that the author is working, but we have to enable these APIs in our Google Cloud projects. So, basically just clicking open these one at a time, and all you have to do is hit enable. So, it's super simple. You just have to do this, like I said, for all of these different services that you actually want to be able to use. So that's why I did this on a new project because I just wanted you guys to see that. But if you already have one that has all these enabled, then you can just use that project and generate that OOTH client ID. So there you go. You can see

that this works. I said, can you find my Google doc that I made in April of 2025? And it went ahead and pulled links to all five of these because obviously that was a very vague request. And now we can take action pretty much anywhere in Google Workspace super simply with this CLI. But like I said, I just got this set up today and I've been playing around with it a ton in my executive assistant project and it's been awesome. It can literally do anything. So here I'm asking it to grab my unread emails from today and based on what it knows about my business and my priorities, give them a score. And if the priority score is below five, just mark it as unread automatically. All right, so here you can see it said, "Got 30 unread emails. Here's my priority score based on your business context. " And as I scroll down, you can see that it's getting different ratings. And based on what I'm seeing right now, this actually looks pretty good. So then I started playing around with Google Slides because I use Gamma right now, but at some point I could imagine that if this gets good enough, then I wouldn't need Gamma anymore. And this is a free option compared to Gamma subscription. So I had it create me a slide deck and it was okay. I threw in my brand guidelines. logo and I said, "Hey, can you see this? You created this using the Google slides and it's okay, but there's some weird things that I need you to fix. " So then it came back and said, "I cannot see the slides. I just know how to build them programmatically. So that's why there may be some errors with spacing and stuff. " So then I basically just gave it access to ChromeDev Tools so that it could open the page, screenshot it, look at it, and then we built a plan to add visual validation to this Google Slide Creator skill. So now you can see as it's going through, it actually takes screenshots and then it can make fixes based on that. So then after it fixes everything, it says, "Okay, cool. Updated the skill. Take a look at it now. " So I'll open up this link. Brings me to Google Slides where I have this slide deck. It has kind of my brand colors. It's got the logo up top right. And then as we go through, we can also see that the spacing is a little bit better. It's still not perfect obviously, but we have custom images here that were generated with Nano Banana 2. And even the images are kind of on brand with the sort of orange and blue color scheme. As you can see, we've got this one with the WAT framework. We've got this slide and it even ends with a CTA for the free school community. So, just to see what else happens, I'm going to say, take a look at the slide deck and do another audit. How could you improve the skill in the future? So, it's going to go ahead open up a tab as you guys just saw. It's going to take images. It's going to flick through the different slides and capture them. And as you can see over here, it now says take screenshot. And now it's reading that screenshot right there. Now it just moved on to the next slide and it's going to go through and look at every single slide and then it's going to come back with a plan. And we could probably do a similar visual and validate flow with creating Google Docs as well. So now you can see it's almost on to that last slide. And I hope it fixes this last slide because what you can see here is that the spacing is really off down here. So you can see it came back with an audit. some future improvements. And one thing that I did notice is that because I made the window smaller, its screenshots were probably worse quality. So, it said presentation mode screenshots would probably be better. But anyways, I just wanted to give you guys a little taste of how you can use the GWS CLI, but also use it with other tools to make the functionality even

more powerful. So, just remember that this is very new. There's a lot of people out there on Twitter right now saying that this is insanely overpowered. There's also a lot of people that are saying that it just feels kind of finicky. So far, for me, it's been pretty great. everything that I've asked it to do or find or schedule whatever it is, it's been doing that pretty much perfectly. But there are some people saying that it's asking them to reauthenticate multiple times. So, if that's a little frustrating, I guess just keep in mind that it will only get better. And we're not even to version one yet. So, I definitely recommend that you come to this GitHub, read about it. But more importantly, get this thing installed in your Cloud Code setup and just start using it, using it. And now that you understand how this works and you've seen a few demos, the next step would be to connect it to your projects, potentially like an executive assistant. And if you don't have one of those yet, then definitely try building out your own assistant with Cloud Code. I dropped a full video on how I set mine up, which you can go ahead and watch right up here. I think that'd be a great next step. Hopefully, I see you guys over there. But that is going to do it for today. So, if you enjoyed, you learned something new, please give it a like. Definitely helps me out a ton. And as always, I appreciate you guys making it to the end of the video. I'll see you on the next one. Thanks everyone.