It's hard to talk about AI assistants these days without bringing up OpenClaw. It's an agentic system that allows people to let an AI take control of their daily tasks, and is usually either welcomed with great effect or treated like a problem waiting to happen. If you're in the former camp, you've likely tried to grant OpenClaw access to your Google apps and found it a little more annoying than you expected.

Well, there's good news for people who want to use OpenClaw to get stuff done in Gmail and Google Docs. Google itself has released a CLI you can use to better connect to its services, albeit you shouldn't treat it as an official app right off the bat.

Google Workspace CLI is here to improve OpenClaw integration with your apps

It's made by Google, but it's not an official app

As spotted by TechRadar, Google has released the Google Workspace CLI. This uses the nickname 'gws,' and you can invoke it in a terminal to perform a huge array of different tasks:

The repo ships 100+ Agent Skills (SKILL.md files) — one for every supported API, plus higher-level helpers for common workflows and 50 curated recipes for Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, and Sheets. See the full Skills Index for the complete list.

Sure enough, you can click the link to the Skills Index to see everything the CLI can do for OpenClaw. You've got your standard commands (like 'gws-gmail') for managing each service, and each command has a subcommand (like 'gws gmail +send --to

However, things get a little strange when you read deeper into Google Workspace CLI. While the GitHub page for this app lives on the official Google Workspace page, Google goes out of its way to tell everyone it's not an officially supported Google product. So, while using Google Workspace CLI means you can use a Google-curated app to perform agentic actions, it likely means you won't be able to get support or hold the company liable if something bad happens, so keep that in mind before you feed your OpenClaw model this CLI.