# Yesterday I tried to install the Google Workspace CLI and the accompanying skill ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `051f108d-6115-406e-931b-f2ffc28e6bfe` - Last activity: `2026-03-06T08:40:07.441Z` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User Yesterday I tried to install the Google Workspace CLI and the accompanying skills. This is a brand new thing that they've just released. So you'll need to search the internet to find out what I'm talking about. However, I can't remember if I did it on this computer or my laptop. Can you do some checking for me please? And uh download the relevant things if you don't have them on this machine. ### Assistant Let me do a few things in parallel: search the web for this Google Workspace CLI, check yesterday's session for the conversation, and look at what's on this machine. ### Assistant Right, vault restriction. Let me redo those checks with proper path indirection, and also retry the reads and session search. ### Assistant The session search syntax might be off. Let me fix that and also check the GitHub repo for installation details. ### Assistant Let me check the session-reader syntax, and also search yesterday's sessions more broadly. ### Assistant Ah, `search` doesn't take a days parameter. Let me search properly and also list yesterday's sessions. ### Assistant Here's what I've found: 1. `gws` is NOT installed on this machine - checked `which`, npm global, brew, and pip, all empty 2. I searched every session from the last 30 days on this machine for "google," "workspace," "gws," and "install" - zero hits related to the Workspace CLI. Yesterday's sessions on this machine were all about the generating philosophy paper (the 22:02, 22:09, and 22:38 sessions) So you must have done it on your laptop. Let me get it set up here. Node v25.2.0 and npm 11.10.0 are ready to go. ### Assistant Installed — `gws 0.7.0` at `/opt/homebrew/bin/gws`. Now for authentication. This is the part that needs you in the loop — `gws auth login` opens a browser for OAuth consent. A couple of questions before we proceed: