gws-meet Skill: What It Does and How to Install It

Lets Claude create and update Google Meet spaces, end an active meeting and look up past conference records through the gws command-line tool.

Installs: 41.5K; on skills.sh
Stars: 32K; on GitHub
Updated: Oct 2026; last repo commit

gws-meet teaches Claude the gws meet commands from the Google Workspace CLI. Claude can create, read and update meeting spaces, end an active conference, and list or read conference records. Records have participants, recordings, smart notes and transcripts sub-resources. It needs the gws program signed in to your Google account, and its first instruction is to read the gws-shared skill.

Good for

People who set up Google Meet spaces from a chat
Teams that look up past conferences and who joined
Claude Code users who already use the gws CLI for Workspace

Install gws-meet

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the gws-meet skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npm install -g @googleworkspace/cli
gws auth setup
npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/tree/main/skills/gws-shared
npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/tree/main/skills/gws-meet

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js 18+, A Google Cloud project, A Google account.

The README says gws is not an officially supported Google product and is under active development, so expect breaking changes. If Google consent shows "hasn't verified this app" while your OAuth app is in testing mode, the README says to continue.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Manage Google Meet conferences.

Sections in SKILL.md

API Resources
conferenceRecords
spaces
Discovering Commands

Key facts

Author: googleworkspace
Repository: googleworkspace/cli
License: Apache-2.0
Skill version: 0.22.5
Installs on skills.sh: 41,531 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 32,038 (Nov 2, 2026)
skills.sh audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub pass, Socket pass, Snyk warn (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit: Oct 30, 2026
Files: 1 file: SKILL.md only
Needs: The gws program (SKILL.md lists it as a required binary) and the gws-shared skill
Status: The README says gws is not an officially supported Google product

What it includes

Creates a meeting space
Write · gws meet spaces create
Gets details about a meeting space
Network · gws meet spaces get
Updates details about a meeting space
Write · gws meet spaces patch
Ends the active conference in a space, if there is one
It ends a live meeting, so confirm before Claude runs it.
Write · gws meet spaces endActiveConference
Gets a conference record by conference ID
Network · gws meet conferenceRecords get
Lists conference records, newest start time first by default
Network · gws meet conferenceRecords list
participants, recordings, smartNotes and transcripts under a conference record
SKILL.md lists these four resources without describing them.
conferenceRecords sub-resources
Shows a method's required parameters, types and defaults
Use its output to build the --params and --json flags.
Runs code · gws schema meet.<resource>.<method>

From the official docs

Permissions

Medium risk

It lets Claude create and change Meet spaces, end a live meeting and read conference records in your Google account through the gws command line. Sign in with the narrowest permissions you can and ask for --dry-run before any change.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

It can end a meeting that is in progress
endActiveConference ends the active conference in a space. Confirm the space before Claude runs it, and ask for --dry-run first. github.com
Sign-in gives gws access to your Google account
gws auth login asks for Google permissions. The README shows how to choose individual services so the consent screen asks for fewer, so pick only what you need.
Meeting records can contain transcripts and recordings
SKILL.md lists participants, recordings, smartNotes and transcripts resources. If Claude reads them, that text goes to your AI provider, so use it only with meetings you may share that way.
The gws program is under active development
The README warns to expect breaking changes before v1.0. Pin the version you tested.

Security advisories

No published security advisories as of Nov 2, 2026.

Technical details

Turning on read-only	No read-only mode is documented. The --dry-run flag shows a request without sending it.
Talks to	The gws program calls Google Workspace APIs. Your AI provider receives the data Claude reads from Google
Sign-in and keys	Sign-in is handled by the gws program. The README says credentials are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM) with the key in your OS keyring, or in ~/.config/gws/.encryption_key when the file backend is set.
Scopes	Claude runs the gws program on your machine gws signs in with your Google account and calls the Meet API

Questions

How do I install gws-meet?

Use the install box above. It installs the gws program, signs you in, and adds gws-shared and gws-meet.

Can gws-meet end a meeting?

Yes. SKILL.md lists spaces endActiveConference, which ends an active conference in a space if one is running. Ask Claude to confirm the space first.

Can it get transcripts and recordings?

SKILL.md lists transcripts, recordings, participants and smartNotes resources under conferenceRecords but does not describe them. Check gws schema for the method you need before relying on them.

Does it need an API key?

Not in the usual sense. The README requires a Google Cloud project for OAuth credentials and a Google account.

Does gws-meet work in the Claude app?

The README documents no Claude app install. The skill drives a program on your machine, so use it in Claude Code or another local agent.

Is gws-meet safe?

It can create and change Meet spaces and end a live meeting in your Google account, and it can read conference records. Sign in with the narrowest permissions you can and use --dry-run first. The skill file is one SKILL.md and bundles no scripts.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: googleworkspace/cli
Folder: skills/gws-meet

googleworkspace/cli skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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googleworkspace/cli README · github.com
gws-shared SKILL.md · github.com
googleworkspace/cli · github.com
skills CLI commands · github.com
gws-meet SKILL.md · github.com
gws-meet on skills.sh · skills.sh