people (v1)
SkillDev toolsOnce added, your AI can manage your Google Contacts for you, so finding a person, adding a new contact, or tidying up your address book happens with a simple request. It works with both individual contacts and contact groups, and runs through the gws CLI.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
After adding the skill, ask your AI to look up someone you know is in your contacts to confirm it works, then try creating or updating a contact.
Then ask your AI: use the people (v1) skill
What your AI can do with it
- Search your Google Contacts to find a person or their details
- Create new contacts in your address book
- Update existing contact details when they change
- Delete contacts you no longer need
- Create, update, and delete contact groups to keep people organized
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by googleworkspace/cli in skills/gws-people/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 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 async_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'snames,emailAddresses, andphoneNumbersfields 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. Usepeople/meto 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. Usepeople/meto 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 thesync_tokenis specified, resources deleted since the last sync will be returned as a person withPersonMetadata.deletedset to true. When thepage_tokenorsync_tokenis 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'snames,nickNames,emailAddresses,phoneNumbers, andorganizationsfields 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_contactssearchDirectoryPeople— 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 theupdate_maskwill be replaced. The server returns a 400 error ifperson.metadata.sourcesis 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.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 31k
- Forks
- 2k
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
gws-people- Source
- github.com/googleworkspace/cli