gws-people
Handles Google Contacts operations like managing groups and profiles via CLI.
Install
mkdir -p .claude/skills/gws-people && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/16778" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/gws-people && rm skill.zipInstalls to .claude/skills/gws-people
Activation
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Google People: Manage contacts and profiles.Key capabilities
- →Create new contact groups
- →Update existing contact group names
- →List all contact groups owned by the authenticated user
- →Copy an "Other contact" to a new contact in the user's "myContacts" group
- →Create a batch of new contacts
- →Update contact data for an existing contact person
How it works
The skill interacts with the Google People API to manage contact groups, other contacts, and people resources. It uses specific commands for batch operations, creation, deletion, listing, and updating of these resources.
Inputs & outputs
When to use gws-people
- →Manage contacts
- →Update groups
- →Fetch profiles
About this skill
people (v1)
PREREQUISITE: Read
../gws-shared/SKILL.mdfor auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, rungws generate-skillsto create it.
gws people <resource> <method> [flags]
API Resources
contactGroups
batchGet— Get a list of contact groups owned by the authenticated user by specifying a list of contact group resource names.create— Create a new contact group owned by the authenticated user. Created contact group names must be unique to the users contact groups. Attempting to create a group with a duplicate name will return a HTTP 409 error. Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.delete— Delete an existing contact group owned by the authenticated user by specifying a contact group resource name. Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.get— Get a specific contact group owned by the authenticated user by specifying a contact group resource name.list— List all contact groups owned by the authenticated user. Members of the contact groups are not populated.update— Update the name of an existing contact group owned by the authenticated user. Updated contact group names must be unique to the users contact groups. Attempting to create a group with a duplicate name will return a HTTP 409 error. Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.members— Operations on the 'members' resource
otherContacts
copyOtherContactToMyContactsGroup— Copies an "Other contact" to a new contact in the user's "myContacts" group Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.list— List all "Other contacts", that is contacts that are not in a contact group. "Other contacts" are typically auto created contacts from interactions. Sync tokens expire 7 days after the full sync. A request with an expired sync token will get an error with an google.rpc.ErrorInfo with reason "EXPIRED_SYNC_TOKEN". In the case of such an error clients should make a full sync request without async_token.search— Provides a list of contacts in the authenticated user's other contacts that matches the search query. The query matches on a contact'snames,emailAddresses, andphoneNumbersfields that are from the OTHER_CONTACT source. IMPORTANT: Before searching, clients should send a warmup request with an empty query to update the cache. See https://developers.google.com/people/v1/other-contacts#search_the_users_other_contacts
people
batchCreateContacts— Create a batch of new contacts and return the PersonResponses for the newly Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.batchUpdateContacts— Update a batch of contacts and return a map of resource names to PersonResponses for the updated contacts. Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.createContact— Create a new contact and return the person resource for that contact. The request returns a 400 error if more than one field is specified on a field that is a singleton for contact sources: * biographies * birthdays * genders * names Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.deleteContactPhoto— Delete a contact's photo. Mutate requests for the same user should be done sequentially to avoid // lock contention.get— Provides information about a person by specifying a resource name. Usepeople/meto indicate the authenticated user. The request returns a 400 error if 'personFields' is not specified.getBatchGet— Provides information about a list of specific people by specifying a list of requested resource names. Usepeople/meto indicate the authenticated user. The request returns a 400 error if 'personFields' is not specified.listDirectoryPeople— Provides a list of domain profiles and domain contacts in the authenticated user's domain directory. When thesync_tokenis specified, resources deleted since the last sync will be returned as a person withPersonMetadata.deletedset to true. When thepage_tokenorsync_tokenis specified, all other request parameters must match the first call. Writes may have a propagation delay of several minutes for sync requests. Incremental syncs are not intended for read-after-write use cases.searchContacts— Provides a list of contacts in the authenticated user's grouped contacts that matches the search query. The query matches on a contact'snames,nickNames,emailAddresses,phoneNumbers, andorganizationsfields that are from the CONTACT source. IMPORTANT: Before searching, clients should send a warmup request with an empty query to update the cache. See https://developers.google.com/people/v1/contacts#search_the_users_contactssearchDirectoryPeople— Provides a list of domain profiles and domain contacts in the authenticated user's domain directory that match the search query.updateContact— Update contact data for an existing contact person. Any non-contact data will not be modified. Any non-contact data in the person to update will be ignored. All fields specified in theupdate_maskwill be replaced. The server returns a 400 error ifperson.metadata.sourcesis not specified for the contact to be updated or if there is no contact source.updateContactPhoto— Update a contact's photo. Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially to avoid increased latency and failures.connections— Operations on the 'connections' resource
Discovering Commands
Before calling any API method, inspect it:
# Browse resources and methods
gws people --help
# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema people.<resource>.<method>
Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.
When not to use it
- →When contact group names are not unique to the user's contact groups
- →When performing multiple mutate requests for the same user concurrently
- →When a sync token for other contacts has expired
Prerequisites
Limitations
- →Contact group names must be unique to the user's contact groups
- →Mutate requests for the same user should be sent sequentially
- →Sync tokens for other contacts expire after 7 days
How it compares
This skill provides direct command-line access to Google People API functions, unlike manual web interface interactions.
Compared to similar skills
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