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gws-licensing▌

googleworkspace/cli · updated Apr 8, 2026

$npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-licensing
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summary

Manage Google Workspace Enterprise product licenses across users and SKUs.

  • ›Supports license assignment, revocation, retrieval, and reassignment operations through seven API methods on the licenseAssignments resource
  • ›Enables bulk listing of licensed users by product SKU and individual license lookups by user and product
  • ›Requires Google Workspace authentication and the gws CLI binary; see shared prerequisites in ../gws-shared/SKILL.md
  • ›Use gws schema command to inspect method paramet
skill.md

licensing (v1)

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

gws licensing <resource> <method> [flags]

API Resources

licenseAssignments

  • delete — Revoke a license.
  • get — Get a specific user's license by product SKU.
  • insert — Assign a license.
  • listForProduct — List all users assigned licenses for a specific product SKU.
  • listForProductAndSku — List all users assigned licenses for a specific product SKU.
  • patch — Reassign a user's product SKU with a different SKU in the same product. This method supports patch semantics.
  • update — Reassign a user's product SKU with a different SKU in the same product.

Discovering Commands

Before calling any API method, inspect it:

# Browse resources and methods
gws licensing --help

# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema licensing.<resource>.<method>

Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.

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Ratings

4.8★★★★★32 reviews
  • ★★★★★Chaitanya Patil· Dec 28, 2024

    Useful defaults in gws-licensing — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.

  • ★★★★★Hassan Okafor· Dec 28, 2024

    We added gws-licensing from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.

  • ★★★★★Pratham Ware· Dec 24, 2024

    Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: gws-licensing is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.

  • ★★★★★Hana Menon· Dec 16, 2024

    Useful defaults in gws-licensing — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.

  • ★★★★★Piyush G· Nov 19, 2024

    gws-licensing is among the better-maintained entries we tried; worth keeping pinned for repeat workflows.

  • ★★★★★Amelia Smith· Nov 19, 2024

    gws-licensing reduced setup friction for our internal harness; good balance of opinion and flexibility.

  • ★★★★★Hassan Abebe· Nov 7, 2024

    gws-licensing is among the better-maintained entries we tried; worth keeping pinned for repeat workflows.

  • ★★★★★Amelia Choi· Nov 7, 2024

    gws-licensing fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.

  • ★★★★★Benjamin Ghosh· Oct 26, 2024

    Keeps context tight: gws-licensing is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.

  • ★★★★★Advait Huang· Oct 26, 2024

    We added gws-licensing from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.

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