Watch for Drive Changes

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Lets your agent watch a Google Drive file or folder and receive notifications when it changes.

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

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Watch for Drive Changes skill

About this capability

Subscribe to change notifications on a Google Drive file or folder.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by googleworkspace/cli in skills/recipe-watch-drive-changes/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-events

Subscribe to change notifications on a Google Drive file or folder.

Steps

  1. Create subscription: gws events subscriptions create --json '{"targetResource": "//drive.googleapis.com/drives/DRIVE_ID", "eventTypes": ["google.workspace.drive.file.v1.updated"], "notificationEndpoint": {"pubsubTopic": "projects/PROJECT/topics/TOPIC"}, "payloadOptions": {"includeResource": true}}'
  2. List active subscriptions: gws events subscriptions list
  3. Renew before expiry: gws events +renew --subscription SUBSCRIPTION_ID

Signals

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