Google drops gws: The terminal just swallowed Google Workspace

Google open-sources gws, a powerful CLI tool bringing the entire Google Workspace to your terminal. Designed for both developers and AI agents with JSON output, MCP support, and 100+ built-in skills.

If in recent months the geeks in the open-source community have been frantically building “hands and feet” for AI Agents, then now the real industry giant, Google, has finally entered the arena.

Instead of releasing yet another flashy Chatbot, it quietly open-sourced an extremely hardcore command-line tool on GitHub — gws (Google Workspace CLI).

In just one day, it racked up 10K+ stars.

It now has 12.9K stars.

In the eyes of developers, this is nothing short of a “nuclear weapon”-level release. Why?

Because in the past, if you wanted your AI assistant (such as Claude Code or OpenClaw) to read your Gmail or create an event in Google Calendar, you would be tortured by Google Cloud Console’s insanely complicated OAuth 2.0 authentication, token refresh logic, and API pagination until you questioned your entire existence.

Now, Google itself has smashed through that window.

gws is not just a CLI tool that lets you send emails in the terminal — it is a native, fully armed AI agent interface.

It openly declares: The entire Google Workspace ecosystem is now wide open to AI Agents.