Technical & DevelopmentIntermediate
gws-forms
Read and write Google Forms
Developer Setup
Setup & Installation
bash
npx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-formsnpx skills add https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-formsOr paste this URL into your assistant to install:
Overview
What This Skill Does
A CLI skill for interacting with Google Forms via the `gws` command-line tool. Supports creating forms, reading responses, updating form structure, and managing publish settings and watches through the Google Forms API.
Application
When to use this Skill
- Configuring integration settings for custom agent workflows.
- Optimizing query execution and response latency in production.
- Developing clean, standard-compliant implementations for enterprise services.
- Troubleshooting connection timeouts and authentication handshakes.
- Monitoring API rate limits and execution pipelines programmatically.
Documentation
Show Skills.md file
forms (v1)
PREREQUISITE: Read
../gws-shared/SKILL.mdfor auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, rungws generate-skillsto create it.
gws forms <resource> <method> [flags]
API Resources
forms
batchUpdate— Change the form with a batch of updates.create— Create a new form using the title given in the provided form message in the request. Important: Only the form.info.title and form.info.document_title fields are copied to the new form. All other fields including the form description, items and settings are disallowed. To create a new form and add items, you must first call forms.create to create an empty form with a title and (optional) document title, and then call forms.update to add the items.get— Get a form.setPublishSettings— Updates the publish settings of a form. Legacy forms aren't supported because they don't have thepublish_settingsfield.responses— Operations on the 'responses' resourcewatches— Operations on the 'watches' resource
Discovering Commands
Before calling any API method, inspect it:
# Browse resources and methods
gws forms --help
# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema forms.<resource>.<method>
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