Recipe Create Task List

Set up a new Google Tasks list with initial tasks.

Security Scan

The skill's requests and runtime instructions are consistent with its stated purpose: it requires the gws CLI and a companion gws-tasks skill to create Google Tasks entries, and it does not ask for unrelated credentials or install arbitrary code.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the instructions: the SKILL.md runs gws CLI commands to create a Google Tasks list and tasks. The declared required binary (gws) and the metadata dependency on the gws-tasks skill are proportionate to the stated purpose.

Instruction Scope

Instructions are narrowly scoped to gws tasks commands and do not request unrelated files or environment variables. Minor usability gap: the recipe uses a placeholder TASKLIST_ID but doesn't show capturing the created tasklist's ID (the user/agent must replace it manually or parse the create output).

Install Mechanism

This is an instruction-only skill with no install spec and no bundled code; nothing is downloaded or written to disk by the skill itself.

Credentials

No environment variables or credentials are declared, which is reasonable for a thin recipe. However, the gws CLI typically requires prior authentication; the skill implicitly relies on whatever Google credentials the gws binary is already configured with. That means the skill will act with the permissions of the existing authenticated account.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill does not request persistent/system-level changes or access to other skills' configuration. It simply instructs running gws commands when invoked.

Assessment

This recipe will run gws CLI commands to create a Google Tasks list and add tasks. Before installing or invoking it: (1) ensure the gws binary on your PATH is the genuine Google Workspace CLI you expect, (2) confirm which Google account gws is authenticated to (the skill will act using those credentials), and (3) be prepared to provide/replace TASKLIST_ID (or capture it from the tasklist creation output) when running the steps. If you do not want the agent to modify your real Tasks, test with a secondary account or ensure gws is unauthenticated in the environment used for testing.

Create a Task List and Add Tasks

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

Set up a new Google Tasks list with initial tasks.

Steps

1. Create task list: gws tasks tasklists insert --json '{"title": "Q2 Goals"}'
2. Add a task: gws tasks tasks insert --params '{"tasklist": "TASKLIST_ID"}' --json '{"title": "Review Q1 metrics", "notes": "Pull data from analytics dashboard", "due": "2024-04-01T00:00:00Z"}'
3. Add another task: gws tasks tasks insert --params '{"tasklist": "TASKLIST_ID"}' --json '{"title": "Draft Q2 OKRs"}'
4. List tasks: gws tasks tasks list --params '{"tasklist": "TASKLIST_ID"}' --format table