Google Drive Skill

For when the user asks to upload/download files to Google Drive, create or share folders, list folder contents, or move binary artifacts (zips, tarballs, source bundles, photo dumps) into a Drive workspace.

This is a separate concern from google-docs-skill — that one is Docs-API-specific (create/read/update Google Docs, export to PDF/DOCX). Use google-drive-skill for raw bytes; use google-docs-skill for Docs-flavored content.

Setup

Reuses the OAuth client from google-docs-skill (Drive scope is already enabled there). If you've already logged into the Docs skill with the account you need, this skill picks up the token automatically — no separate login.

If a fresh login is needed:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py login --account [email protected]

That triggers the standard browser-based OAuth flow.

Commands

All output is JSON to stdout for easy piping.

Account management

python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py accounts
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py login [--account EMAIL]
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py logout [--account EMAIL]

Folder + file CRUD

# Create a folder (in My Drive root by default; pass --parent for nested)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py mkdir "Bundle 2026-05-01" --account [email protected]

# Upload a single file
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py upload ./big.tar.gz --parent FOLDER_ID --account [email protected]

# Recursively upload an entire directory tree (preserves structure, skips .DS_Store)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py upload-tree ./original_data --parent FOLDER_ID --account [email protected]

# List a folder's children
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py list FOLDER_ID --account [email protected]

# Inspect a single file/folder
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py info FILE_OR_FOLDER_ID --account [email protected]

# Share with someone (default role: reader; --no-notify to skip the email)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py share FILE_OR_FOLDER_ID --email [email protected] --role reader --account [email protected]

# Trash (default) or permanently delete
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py rm FILE_OR_FOLDER_ID --account [email protected]
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py rm FILE_OR_FOLDER_ID --permanent --account [email protected]

# Download a single file
python3 ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/drive_skill.py download FILE_ID --output ./local.tar.gz --account [email protected]

Resumable uploads

upload and upload-tree use Drive's resumable upload protocol with 8 MiB chunks. Multi-GB transfers survive transient network blips. Progress prints to stderr (use --quiet to silence).

upload-tree is the right tool for "ship this whole directory to a Drive folder" — it walks recursively, creates each subfolder once (cached), and uploads files with their MIME type detected from the extension.

Implementation notes

• Stores tokens at ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/tokens/token_<email>.json. Falls back to reading the docs-skill's tokens dir for accounts that have already logged in there. New logins from this skill land here.
• Reuses ~/.claude/skills/google-docs-skill/credentials.json (the OAuth client). If you ever need to bring your own client JSON, drop one at ~/.claude/skills/google-drive-skill/credentials.json.
• Drive scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive (full read/write). The docs-skill already requested this scope, so existing tokens have it.

Where this fits

• google-docs-skill — Docs-API operations (create/read/update Docs, export, comments).
• google-drive-skill — bytes (this one).
• gmail-skill — Gmail OAuth + send/read.

The three share an OAuth client; tokens are interchangeable across skills as long as the account logged in at least once via any of them.