# Google Workspace CLI 31 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Workspace CLI and 31 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it as a scriptable command-line interface to Google Workspace apps like Sheets and Docs, useful for agents. Critics say Google Cloud setup and auth are hard and that the vibe-coded code is a trust risk. ## Why people recommend it - Useful for scripts and AI agents (5 comments): "now my lobster can stably do everything on my behalf vs. you do it all via computer use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263885)) "The CLI has abstracted that into one single reusable, scriptable command" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259473)) "Great, i hope this becomes a trend now that agent skills want clis" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256636)) - Practical for Sheets, Docs and Workspace (4 comments): "Work fine as a gog replacement for my limited use cases of reading and writing Sheets." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257844)) "made G workspace so much more useful to me personally" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650384)) "one of the few actually useful tools for Workspace" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658942)) - Better than dashboards or third-party libs (2 comments): "Better this than a Google dashboard, or slopped together third party libs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256603)) "The CLI has abstracted that into one single reusable, scriptable command" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259473)) - Written in Rust (2 comments): "Thanks for at least making a CLI in Rust instead of Python." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654576)) "It is nice to see that this is not JS, but Rust." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261717)) ## What people warn about - Google Cloud setup and auth are hard (6 comments): "step 2 drops me to a fairly technical looking page where I have to configure Google Cloud" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258962)) "as cool+useful as this project looks, it's quite a bit harder to get going" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259212)) "Can someone explain to me, why Google can't (or does not want to) implement the same auth flow that any other SaaS company uses" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258696)) - Vibe-coded, unofficial, trust concerns (5 comments): "Releasing vibe coded handling of google account credentials seems like the biggest problem with this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654300)) "This type of probably well-meaning, but cowboy activity is not worth the risk to Google." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650224)) "it's about the author of this tool using trademarks and effectively impersonating Google" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654493)) - Google could cut off or drop it (2 comments): "Yet another way Google might decide you’ve violated their ToS and cut you off from your entire digital life without warning or recourse." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263021)) "Google will wait for businesses to become very coupled to this and then kill off the CLI just because." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259158)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [fzf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fzf.md): 78 recommend - [jq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jq.md): 75 recommend - [grep](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grep.md): 65 recommend - [Atuin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atuin.md): 63 recommend - [GitHub CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-cli.md): 49 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Google Workspace CLI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/googleworkspace-cli/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).