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Posted by gonzalovargas 1 day ago

Google Workspace CLI(github.com)
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jngiam1 22 hours ago|
Honestly, easier with MCP straight up: https://gmail.mintmcp.com/ https://gcal.mintmcp.com/ https://gdocs.mintmcp.com/ https://gsheets.mintmcp.com/

(all pass through)

trymas 22 hours ago|
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157398

IMHO, CLI tools are better more often than not against MCP.

EDIT: and here is similar opinion from author himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252459

larodi 23 hours ago||
Would it help to backup all my mailboxes and be ready to ditch gmail?
shivam310 23 hours ago||
I'm surprised that this didn't officially exist before.
sciencesama 1 day ago||
Would be useful if it can atleast show google drive storage in folder structure
jitl 1 day ago||
> quick setup

> requires setting up gcloud cli first, necessitates making a Google Cloud project

cmon google how come even your attempts at good ux start out with bad ux? let me just oauth with my regular google account like every other cli tool out there. gh cli, claude, codex - all are a simple “click ok” in the browser to log in. wtf.

and the slow setup - i need to make my own oauth app & keys??

EDIT: oh yeah and get my oath app verified all so i can use it with my own account

wg0 17 hours ago||
Seems to be built by using Claud code?
tedk-42 1 day ago||
Haha in the world of AI/MCPs, all of a sudden we have a push for companies to properly build out APIs/CLI tools.
spullara 1 day ago||
I have always said that if we had done for developers what we are doing for agents the whole world would have been a much better place.
ryandrake 1 day ago|||
Perhaps we will finally emerge from this decades-long dark age of bloated, do-everything GUI development tools being the fashionable happy path.
techpression 1 day ago||
The AWS cli tool wants to have a talk… hard to find a more bloated mess of strung together scripts held together by tape.
theshrike79 20 hours ago|||
Even if the AI bubble bursts hard, we'll still have all of the better tooling for us actual humans.

But saying "it's for AI" is a corporate life hack for you to get permission to build said better tooling... =)

sh3rl0ck 1 day ago|||
One of the very few good things from the AI race has been everyone finally publishing more data APIs out in the open, and making their tools usable via CLIs (or extensible APIs).
citizenpaul 1 day ago||
I feel like the CLI craze started around 2020. That predates this chat GPT.

CharmCLI golang

Nushell rust

Warp. Shell

Were all around 2020 also that is when alt shells started getting popular probably for same reasons they still are.

vishnugupta 1 day ago|||
But on the other hand a (possibly dark) pattern is emerging where companies are asking you to upgrade to a higher plan to access MCP.
22c 1 day ago|||
I noted something similar a few weeks ago. Companies are finally putting APIs in front of things that should have had APIs for years!
dack 1 day ago|||
yeah there's way more demand, and at the same time, it's way easier for the company to build and maintain (with the help of AI). Great to see!
BarryMilo 1 day ago|||
Took them this long to realize MCPs are just worse APIs.
forrestthewoods 1 day ago|||
About 90% of “make codebase better for LLMs” is just good old fashioned better engineering that is also good for humans.
benatkin 1 day ago||
They aren't doing that though. At least not yet. It's generated from the discovery tool, which amounts to the spec of the existing API. If they want a high powered CLI they need to dig into the servers behind Google Workspace like they have when they've improved the web apps.
yakkomajuri 1 day ago||
For all people have to say about Pete the openclaw guy he's been perhaps one of the most vocal voices about CLIs > MCPs (or maybe his is just the loudest?) and he also built a GSuite CLI that probably inspired this project.

I mean it's great that we get this, hopefully it can continue to be maintained and I'd love to see a push for similar stuff for other products and at other companies.

arthurcolle 23 hours ago||
My agents will follow this repo with great interest
pdyc 1 day ago|
wow this will gel very well with my current project. Main hurdle i was facing was connecting with individual services via google oauth to get the data.
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