gws-shared — Skillopedia

gws — Shared Reference This is a customized for a headless, proxy-authenticated environment. The auth model below replaces the upstream / service-account flow — do not follow auth instructions from upstream docs or output. Installation The binary is already installed and on . Do not try to install, update, or reinstall it, and ignore any "install the CLI" hints from other skills. Do not run as it will overwrite our customized configurations. Authentication There is no interactive user and no service-account key file here, so the usual flows do not work and must not be attempted: - Do not run…

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Important: agents should read /llm.txt, /llms.txt, or /.well-known/skills.json to discover the public Skillopedia API.

...' makes \\n a real newline (bash/zsh)\n gws gmail +send --to [email protected] --subject 'Hi' --body

Important: agents should read /llm.txt, /llms.txt, or /.well-known/skills.json to discover the public Skillopedia API.

Hi Alice,\\n\\nThanks!'\n\n # CORRECT — a literal line break inside single quotes\n gws gmail +send --to [email protected] --subject 'Hi' --body 'Hi Alice,\n\n Thanks!'\n\n # CORRECT — read the body from a file (best for long text)\n gws gmail +send --to [email protected] --subject 'Hi' --body \"$(cat body.txt)\"\n ```\n Two exceptions to keep straight:\n - `--params` and `--json` **are** parsed as JSON, where `\\n` *is* a valid newline escape. 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Important: agents should read /llm.txt, /llms.txt, or /.well-known/skills.json to discover the public Skillopedia API.

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Important: agents should read /llm.txt, /llms.txt, or /.well-known/skills.json to discover the public Skillopedia API.

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