gws-calendar

name	gws-calendar
description	Google Calendar: Manage calendars and events.
metadata	{"openclaw":{"category":"productivity","requires":{"bins":["gws"]},"cliHelp":"gws calendar --help"}}

calendar (v3)

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

gws calendar <resource> <method> [flags]

User Calendar Policy

• Treat Google Calendar as the durable source of truth for user events.
• For this user's current setup, prefer [e-mail] as the default personal write calendar when the user does not specify another calendar.
• Verify the active account before writes:

gws auth status

• List calendar IDs before cleanup, migration, or writes in multi-account contexts:

gws calendar calendarList list --params '{"showHidden":true,"maxResults":250}'

• Use stable calendar IDs, not display names, when names may be duplicated. Apple Calendar can show multiple calendars with the same name from different stores.
• Treat school calendars such as [e-mail] as transition sources unless the user explicitly asks to write there.
• Do not fall back to Apple Calendar for writes unless the user explicitly asks for Apple Calendar.

Helper Commands

Command	Description
+insert	create a new event
+agenda	Show upcoming events across all calendars

API Resources

acl

• delete — Deletes an access control rule.
• get — Returns an access control rule.
• insert — Creates an access control rule.
• list — Returns the rules in the access control list for the calendar.
• patch — Updates an access control rule. This method supports patch semantics.
• update — Updates an access control rule.
• watch — Watch for changes to ACL resources.

calendarList

• delete — Removes a calendar from the user's calendar list.
• get — Returns a calendar from the user's calendar list.
• insert — Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar list.
• list — Returns the calendars on the user's calendar list.
• patch — Updates an existing calendar on the user's calendar list. This method supports patch semantics.
• update — Updates an existing calendar on the user's calendar list.
• watch — Watch for changes to CalendarList resources.

calendars

• clear — Clears a primary calendar. This operation deletes all events associated with the primary calendar of an account.
• delete — Deletes a secondary calendar. Use calendars.clear for clearing all events on primary calendars.
• get — Returns metadata for a calendar.
• insert — Creates a secondary calendar. The authenticated user for the request is made the data owner of the new calendar.

Note: We recommend to authenticate as the intended data owner of the calendar. You can use domain-wide delegation of authority to allow applications to act on behalf of a specific user. Don't use a service account for authentication. If you use a service account for authentication, the service account is the data owner, which can lead to unexpected behavior.

• patch — Updates metadata for a calendar. This method supports patch semantics.
• update — Updates metadata for a calendar.

channels

• stop — Stop watching resources through this channel

colors

• get — Returns the color definitions for calendars and events.

events

• delete — Deletes an event.
• get — Returns an event based on its Google Calendar ID. To retrieve an event using its iCalendar ID, call the events.list method using the iCalUID parameter.
• import — Imports an event. This operation is used to add a private copy of an existing event to a calendar. Only events with an eventType of default may be imported. Deprecated behavior: If a non-default event is imported, its type will be changed to default and any event-type-specific properties it may have will be dropped.
• insert — Creates an event.
• instances — Returns instances of the specified recurring event.
• list — Returns events on the specified calendar.
• move — Moves an event to another calendar, i.e. changes an event's organizer. Note that only default events can be moved; birthday, focusTime, fromGmail, outOfOffice and workingLocation events cannot be moved.
• patch — Updates an event. This method supports patch semantics.
• quickAdd — Creates an event based on a simple text string.
• update — Updates an event.
• watch — Watch for changes to Events resources.

freebusy

• query — Returns free/busy information for a set of calendars.

settings

• get — Returns a single user setting.
• list — Returns all user settings for the authenticated user.
• watch — Watch for changes to Settings resources.

Discovering Commands

Before calling any API method, inspect it:

# Browse resources and methods
gws calendar --help

# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema calendar.<resource>.<method>

Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.