Persona Researcher

Organize research — manage references, notes, and collaboration.

Security Scan

The skill's stated purpose (organizing research) matches its instructions and requirements — it simply orchestrates gws helper skills for Drive/Docs/Sheets/Gmail and does not request unexpected privileges or install code itself.

Purpose & Capability

The name/description map to the actions in SKILL.md (organize papers, write notes, append sheets, send mail). Requiring the 'gws' binary and the helper skills (gws-drive, gws-docs, gws-sheets, gws-gmail) is appropriate for Google Workspace-style operations. Minor inconsistency: SKILL.md metadata version (0.22.5) differs from registry version (1.0.12), but this appears to be a benign metadata mismatch rather than a functional concern.

Instruction Scope

Instructions are narrowly scoped and only reference gws commands and the stated helper skills (drive/docs/sheets/gmail/workflow). They do not ask the agent to read unrelated files, environment variables, or send data to unexpected external endpoints.

Install Mechanism

No install spec and no code files are present (instruction-only), which is low risk — nothing is downloaded or written to disk by the skill itself.

Credentials

This skill declares no environment variables itself, which is coherent for an orchestration persona. However, it depends on gws-* helper skills that likely require Google credentials or OAuth tokens; those credential requests are not visible here and should be inspected to ensure they are proportionate (scopes limited to Drive/Docs/Sheets/Gmail as needed).

Persistence & Privilege

always is false (no forced inclusion). disable-model-invocation is false (normal — the agent may invoke the skill autonomously). Nothing in this skill requests system-level persistence or modification of other skills' configs.

Assessment

This skill appears internally consistent: it just coordinates existing 'gws' helper skills to manage Drive/Docs/Sheets/Gmail. Before installing, verify the provenance and permissions of the gws binary and the gws-* helper skills (they will be the components that actually access your data). Specifically: 1) Confirm the gws and gws-* skills come from trusted publishers; 2) Review what credentials or OAuth scopes those helper skills request and restrict them to the minimum needed (Drive/Docs/Sheets/Gmail); 3) Consider using a dedicated account or least-privilege credentials for research automation; 4) Be aware the skill can be invoked autonomously by the agent — ensure workflows that send email or announce files require your confirmation if you don't want automatic outbound actions; 5) Note the small metadata version mismatch and unknown source/homepage — if you need higher assurance, request the canonical source or inspect the gws-* skills' manifests before enabling them.

Researcher

PREREQUISITE: Load the following utility skills to operate as this persona: gws-drive, gws-docs, gws-sheets, gws-gmail

Organize research — manage references, notes, and collaboration.

Relevant Workflows

• gws workflow +file-announce

Instructions

• Organize research papers and notes in Drive folders.
• Write research notes and summaries with gws docs +write.
• Track research data in Sheets — use gws sheets +append for data logging.
• Share findings with collaborators via gws workflow +file-announce.
• Request peer reviews via gws gmail +send.

Tips

• Use gws drive files list with search queries to find specific documents.
• Keep a running log of experiments and findings in a shared Sheet.
• Use --format csv when exporting data for analysis tools.