Team Lead Persona Skill for Claude Code: Standups and Digests with gws

Has your assistant act as a team lead on Google Workspace: standups, meeting prep, weekly digests and email-to-task, via the gws command line.

Installs: 30.6K; on skills.sh
Stars: 32K; on GitHub
Updated: Oct 2026; last repo commit

This skill from the googleworkspace/cli repo sets up the assistant as a team lead. It points to four gws workflow commands for standups, meeting prep, weekly digests and email-to-task, and to a Sheets command for tracking OKRs.

It loads five skills first (gws-calendar, gws-gmail, gws-chat, gws-drive and gws-sheets) and runs the gws program, so you need gws installed and a Google sign-in. The four workflow commands are documented in separate gws-workflow skills, which are optional.

Good for

Team leads who run daily standups and 1:1s from Google Calendar, Gmail and Tasks
Managers who post updates to team Chat and track goals in a shared Sheet
People whose AI assistant can already run terminal commands and who use the gws command line

Install persona-team-lead

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the persona-team-lead skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill persona-team-lead --skill gws-calendar --skill gws-gmail --skill gws-chat --skill gws-drive --skill gws-sheets --skill gws-shared

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.

This installs 7 skills: the recipe, the gws skills it loads (gws-calendar, gws-gmail, gws-chat, gws-drive, gws-sheets) and gws-shared, which those skills tell the agent to read for sign-in and safety rules. The skills only wrap the gws program, so install gws first and sign in once with gws auth login. The README says an unverified Google app limits consent to about 25 scopes, so choose only the services you need when you sign in.

From the vendor's docs. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Lead a team — run standups, coordinate tasks, and communicate.

Sections in SKILL.md

Relevant Workflows
Instructions
Tips

Key facts

Author: googleworkspace (GitHub organization)
License: Apache-2.0
Installs on skills.sh: 30,642 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 32,038 for the whole repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Status: Not an officially supported Google product
What installs: 1 file (SKILL.md). It tells the agent to load gws-calendar, gws-gmail, gws-chat, gws-drive and gws-sheets first.
Needs: The gws program on your PATH, plus a Google sign-in
Last commit: Oct 30, 2026 (repo)

What it includes

Today's meetings and open tasks as a standup summary
The gws-workflow-standup-report skill says it combines today's calendar agenda with the tasks list and is read-only. The persona suggests sharing the output in team Chat.
Try: “Run my standup report and post it to the team Chat space.”
Network · gws workflow +standup-report
Prepares you for the next meeting, such as a 1:1
The gws-workflow-meeting-prep skill says it shows the next event with its attendees and description, and is read-only.
Try: “Prep me for my next meeting.”
Network · gws workflow +meeting-prep
A weekly snapshot of meetings and unread mail
The gws-workflow-weekly-digest skill says it combines this week's calendar agenda with a Gmail triage summary, and is read-only.
Try: “Give me my weekly digest.”
Network · gws workflow +weekly-digest
Turns a Gmail message into a Google Tasks entry
The gws-workflow-email-to-task skill says it uses the subject as the task title and the snippet as notes, and creates a new task, so confirm before running it.
Try: “Turn the email from Priya into a task.”
Write · gws workflow +email-to-task
Adds rows to a shared Sheet to track team OKRs
The persona's instruction for tracking team OKRs in a shared Sheet.
Try: “Add this week's OKR progress to the team OKR sheet.”
Write · gws sheets +append
gws calendar +agenda --week --format table
A tip in the skill for a weekly team calendar view as a table.
Network · Tip: weekly team calendar view
Pipes standup reports into Chat with gws chat spaces messages create
A tip in the skill for sending a report to a Chat space.
Write · Tip: post to Chat
Use --sanitize for operations with sensitive team data
A tip in the skill. gws-shared describes --sanitize as screening responses through Model Armor.
Tip: --sanitize

From the official docs

Permissions

Medium risk

The assistant can read your calendar, mail and tasks, and post to team Chat and Sheets. Approve each write step, and use the skill's --sanitize tip for sensitive data.

What it can do

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

Watch out for

It can post to Chat, add to Sheets and create tasks
The instructions pipe reports into team Chat, append rows to a shared Sheet and turn emails into tasks. Approve each write before it runs. github.com
Calendar, email and task data reach your assistant
Standups, meeting prep and the weekly digest read your meetings, tasks and unread mail count. The skill suggests --sanitize for sensitive team data. github.com
Needs the gws program and a Google sign-in first
The skill only wraps the gws command line. Install gws and run its sign-in before the first use, as the README describes. github.com

Technical details

Turning on read-only	The skill has no read-only switch. gws-shared tells the agent to confirm write and delete commands with you and to prefer --dry-run for destructive operations. You can also sign in with only the services you need.
Talks to	Google Workspace APIs, through the gws program
Sign-in and keys	gws keeps your Google sign-in encrypted on your machine, with the key in your operating system keyring, per the README.

Questions

What does the team-lead skill do?

It gives the assistant a team-lead job description for Google Workspace. The skill lists four workflow commands and some tips for standups, 1:1 prep, weekly digests, email-to-task and tracking OKRs in a Sheet.

How do I install it?

Use the install box above. It installs this persona, the five gws skills it loads and gws-shared. The gws program is a separate install, and you sign in to Google once.

Do I need the gws-workflow skills?

They are optional. The persona names the four workflow commands, and the gws-workflow skills document their flags. Add them from the same repo if you want that detail loaded.

Do I need an API key?

No key is named in the skill. You need the gws program and a Google account with access to Google Workspace. The README says gws needs a Google Cloud project for OAuth sign-in credentials. gws auth setup creates one but requires the gcloud CLI, so without gcloud you set up OAuth by hand in the Cloud Console.

Does it work in the Claude app or ChatGPT?

The repo documents no route for them. The commands are gws shell commands, so you need an assistant that can run commands on your computer, such as a coding agent.

How is it different from persona-project-manager?

Both are short role cards that load the same five gws skills (gws-calendar, gws-gmail, gws-chat, gws-drive and gws-sheets) and both name +standup-report and +weekly-digest. Team lead adds +meeting-prep and +email-to-task, posts standup output to Chat and tracks OKRs in a Sheet. Project manager adds +file-announce, Drive uploads, gws calendar +insert for recurring standups with attendees and gws gmail +send status emails.

Is it a new tool or a set of instructions?

It is a set of instructions. SKILL.md has a list of four workflow commands, five instructions and three tips, and no commands of its own. The commands come from the gws program and the gws-workflow skills.

Is it safe?

The standup, meeting-prep and digest workflows are described as read-only in their own skills. Email-to-task, Chat posts and Sheet appends write data, so approve those one by one.

Is this an official Google skill?

No. The README says gws is not an officially supported Google product, although the repo sits under the googleworkspace GitHub organization.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: googleworkspace/cli
Folder: skills/persona-team-lead

googleworkspace/cli skills.sh

Sources

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

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googleworkspace/cli README · github.com
persona-team-lead SKILL.md · github.com
gws-drive SKILL.md · github.com
skills CLI commands · github.com
googleworkspace/cli LICENSE · github.com
persona-team-lead on skills.sh · skills.sh
gws-workflow-standup-report SKILL.md · github.com
gws-workflow-meeting-prep SKILL.md · github.com
gws-workflow-weekly-digest SKILL.md · github.com
gws-workflow-email-to-task SKILL.md · github.com
gws-shared SKILL.md · github.com
persona-project-manager SKILL.md · github.com
gws-workflow SKILL.md · github.com