events (v1)
SkillDev toolsThis skill lets your AI subscribe to Google Workspace events. Once it is added, your agent can follow activity in Google Workspace through those events and manage the subscriptions it holds.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
After adding the skill, tell your agent which Google Workspace events you want it to follow. It can then set up and manage those subscriptions for you.
Then ask your AI: use the events (v1) skill
What your AI can do with it
- Subscribe to Google Workspace events
- Manage existing event subscriptions
- Stay aware of activity in Google Workspace
- Adjust subscriptions as your needs change
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by googleworkspace/cli in skills/gws-events/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
PREREQUISITE: Read
../gws-shared/SKILL.mdfor auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, rungws generate-skillsto create it.
gws events <resource> <method> [flags]
Helper Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
+subscribe | Subscribe to Workspace events and stream them as NDJSON |
+renew | Renew/reactivate Workspace Events subscriptions |
API Resources
message
stream— SendStreamingMessage is a streaming call that will return a stream of task update events until the Task is in an interrupted or terminal state.
operations
get— Gets the latest state of a long-running operation. Clients can use this method to poll the operation result at intervals as recommended by the API service.
subscriptions
create— Creates a Google Workspace subscription. To learn how to use this method, see Create a Google Workspace subscription.delete— Deletes a Google Workspace subscription. To learn how to use this method, see Delete a Google Workspace subscription.get— Gets details about a Google Workspace subscription. To learn how to use this method, see Get details about a Google Workspace subscription.list— Lists Google Workspace subscriptions. To learn how to use this method, see List Google Workspace subscriptions.patch— Updates or renews a Google Workspace subscription. To learn how to use this method, see Update or renew a Google Workspace subscription.reactivate— Reactivates a suspended Google Workspace subscription. This method resets your subscription'sStatefield toACTIVE. Before you use this method, you must fix the error that suspended the subscription. This method will ignore or reject any subscription that isn't currently in a suspended state. To learn how to use this method, see Reactivate a Google Workspace subscription.
tasks
cancel— Cancel a task from the agent. If supported one should expect no more task updates for the task.get— Get the current state of a task from the agent.subscribe— TaskSubscription is a streaming call that will return a stream of task update events. This attaches the stream to an existing in process task. If the task is complete the stream will return the completed task (like GetTask) and close the stream.pushNotificationConfigs— Operations on the 'pushNotificationConfigs' resource
Discovering Commands
Before calling any API method, inspect it:
# Browse resources and methods
gws events --help
# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema events.<resource>.<method>
Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 31k
- Forks
- 2k
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
gws-events- Source
- github.com/googleworkspace/cli