Recipe Watch Drive Changes

googleworkspace/recipe-watch-drive-changes

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

230 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

30175

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

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

The instruction itself

2 sections, as written by the author

Watch for Drive Changes

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

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

Steps

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}}'
List active subscriptions: gws events subscriptions list
Renew before expiry: gws events +renew --subscription SUBSCRIPTION_ID

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take googleworkspace/recipe-watch-drive-changes from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.