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Gws People

Google WorkspaceOfficialPublished by Google Workspace

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  • Automation and integrations
  • Apache-2.0
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Google People: Manage contacts and profiles.
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The gws-people skill provides a command-line interface to interact with the Google People API. It allows users to manage their contacts, contact groups, and directory profiles directly from the terminal. The skill supports batch operations, searching, and updating contact details, including photos. It is designed to be used as part of the broader gws toolset, requiring authentication and adherence to sequential processing for mutation requests to ensure data integrity.

What it does

  • Create, update, and delete individual contacts and contact groups.
  • Perform batch operations for creating or updating multiple contacts simultaneously.
  • Search through personal contacts and domain directory profiles.
  • Manage contact photos by updating or deleting them.
  • Retrieve detailed information about specific people or the authenticated user.
  • List and manage 'Other contacts' generated from interactions.

When to use it

  • When you need to automate contact management tasks within a terminal workflow.
  • When performing bulk updates or imports of contact information.
  • When you need to query directory information or personal contact lists programmatically.
  • When integrating Google People data into scripts or automated pipelines.

Advantages

  • Enables programmatic control over Google contact data.
  • Supports batch processing for efficient data management.
  • Provides direct access to directory search and contact group organization.
  • Integrates seamlessly with other gws-based tools.

Usage examples

“List all my contact groups.”
The agent executes the list method on the contactGroups resource to return all groups owned by the user.
“Search for a contact named John Doe in my contacts.”
The agent performs a searchContacts operation to find matches within the user's grouped contacts.
“Create a new contact group called 'Project Team'.”
The agent uses the create method on the contactGroups resource to add the new group.
“Get details for the authenticated user.”
The agent calls the get method using people/me as the resource name to retrieve the user's profile information.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/googleworkspace/gws-people/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip gws-people.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Google Workspace

people (v1)

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to 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 a sync_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's names, emailAddresses, and phoneNumbers fields 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. Use people/me to 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. Use people/me to 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 the sync_token is specified, resources deleted since the last sync will be returned as a person with PersonMetadata.deleted set to true. When the page_token or sync_token is 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's names, nickNames, emailAddresses, phoneNumbers, and organizations fields 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_contacts

  • searchDirectoryPeople — 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 the update_mask will be replaced. The server returns a 400 error if person.metadata.sources is 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.

Files

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Security

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Attribution and licence

Published by
Google Workspace
Publisher
Google Workspace (Official)
Source
googleworkspace/cli · skills/gws-people · commit cd3697e
Licence
Apache License 2.0 (redistribution allowed)
  • LICENSE (added by AutoGineer from LICENSE)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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