Create a Google Doc from a Template

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This skill lets your AI create Google Docs from your templates. Once added, it can copy a template, fill in the content you need, and share the finished document with your teammates. It is useful for turning a document you reuse often into a ready-to-read file without doing the copying and sharing by hand.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add the skill, then ask your AI to create a document from one of your Google Docs templates, tell it what content to fill in, and who should have access.

Then ask your AI: use the Create a Google Doc from a Template skill

What your AI can do with it

  • Create a new Google Doc by copying a template
  • Fill in text and content in the new document
  • Share the finished document with collaborators

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by googleworkspace/cli in skills/recipe-create-doc-from-template/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-drive, gws-docs

Copy a Google Docs template, fill in content, and share with collaborators.

Steps

  1. Copy the template: gws drive files copy --params '{"fileId": "TEMPLATE_DOC_ID"}' --json '{"name": "Project Brief - Q2 Launch"}'
  2. Get the new doc ID from the response
  3. Add content: `gws docs +write --document-id NEW_DOC_ID --text '## Project: Q2 Launch

Objective

Launch the new feature by end of Q2.'4. Share with team:gws drive permissions create --params '{"fileId": "NEW_DOC_ID"}' --json '{"role": "writer", "type": "user", "emailAddress": "team@company.com"}'`

Signals

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Source
github.com/googleworkspace/cli