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recipe-watch-drive-changes▌

googleworkspace/cli · updated Apr 8, 2026

$npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-watch-drive-changes
summary

Subscribe to Google Drive file and folder changes via Pub/Sub notifications.

  • ›Requires the gws-events skill and gws binary to execute
  • ›Creates event subscriptions on Drive resources with configurable notification endpoints and payload options
  • ›Supports subscription lifecycle management: create, list, and renew subscriptions before expiry
  • ›Delivers change events (file updates) to Google Cloud Pub/Sub topics for downstream processing
skill.md

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