Peter Steinberger (@steipete) shipped gogcli v0.13.0 on April 20, 2026, and it’s the most feature-complete release yet for the leading Google Workspace CLI skill in the OpenClaw ecosystem. If you’re building email agents, document pipelines, or calendar integrations on top of OpenClaw, this release is relevant.
The short version: gog can now forward emails with notes and attachments, search email bodies (not just headers), convert Markdown files to Google Docs, manage Sheets charts programmatically, and more. Here’s what landed.
Gmail: The Agent-Critical Additions
Email Forwarding with Notes and Attachments
Until v0.13, gog’s Gmail support covered the basics: read, send, reply, label. What was missing was the ability to forward messages — a common workflow for agents that triage inboxes and need to route emails to the right humans or systems.
v0.13 adds Gmail forwarding with attachments and custom notes. An agent can now:
- Forward any message to any recipient
- Attach a note explaining the context (e.g., “Routed by OpenClaw inbox agent — flagged as urgent”)
- Preserve the original attachments
This turns gog-powered email agents into genuine inbox managers, not just inbox readers.
Full-Body Email Search
Previously, gog’s email search operated on headers: subject lines, senders, recipients, labels. Useful, but limited for agents that need to find emails by content — especially in large inboxes where the relevant signal is buried in the email body.
v0.13 adds full-body search via the --full flag:
gmail messages search --full "quarterly review action items"
For agents working with dense professional inboxes, this dramatically expands what’s findable without requiring the user to pre-label everything.
Autoreplies
Agents can now configure and send autoreplies through gog — useful for workflows where an agent needs to acknowledge receipt, provide an automated response, or trigger a downstream process based on the reply.
Label Styling
Minor but useful: Gmail label colors and styles can now be set programmatically via gog. For agents that manage inbox organization (routing emails into labeled folders), this allows the visual presentation of labels to match the intended workflow.
Google Docs: Markdown-to-Doc Conversion
This is the feature that writers, content teams, and document-heavy workflows will find most useful. v0.13 adds Markdown-to-Google-Docs conversion with a --keep-frontmatter option.
docs convert my-article.md --keep-frontmatter
For OpenClaw agents that produce Markdown output (which is most of them), this provides a direct bridge into Google Docs without copy-paste or manual formatting. The --keep-frontmatter flag preserves YAML/TOML frontmatter blocks — important for pipelines where documents carry metadata.
Google Slides: Rendered Thumbnails
Slides thumbnails are now rendered (not just referenced by URL), making it possible to use gog in visual presentation pipelines where agents need to preview or process slide content programmatically.
Sheets: Chart Management
v0.13 adds programmatic chart creation, update, and deletion within Google Sheets. Agents that generate reports, update dashboards, or maintain live data visualizations in Sheets can now manage the chart layer — not just the cell data.
Calendar: Secondary Calendar Creation
gog can now create secondary Google Calendars, not just read and write events to existing ones. This enables agents to set up dedicated calendars for projects, teams, or automated event streams without requiring manual setup through the Google Calendar UI.
Drive: Commenter-Only Shares
A granular sharing permission that was previously missing: commenter-only Drive shares. Agents managing document review workflows can now share files with people who can annotate and comment but not edit.
Infrastructure: Google Ads Auth, Credential Cleanup, Safer No-Send Controls
Three backend improvements worth noting:
- Google Ads authentication support (gog can now authenticate against Google Ads API alongside Workspace)
- Credential cleanup tooling for rotating or removing stored credentials
- Safer no-send controls — guardrails to prevent agents from accidentally sending messages when they should be in dry-run mode
Why gog Over Google’s Official CLI?
Google shipped a competing official Workspace CLI (called gws) in March 2026. Community data shows gog remains the preferred option for OpenClaw builders, and the reasons are UX and cost:
- gog is purpose-built for agentic workflows;
gwsis a general-purpose admin tool - gog integrates directly with the OpenClaw skills system via ClawHub
- gog’s output is designed to be consumed by AI agents, not just displayed to humans
That said, if you’re doing bulk admin work or need access to Google APIs that gog doesn’t cover, gws is worth knowing about.
How to Install or Update
New install via Homebrew:
brew install steipete/tap/gogcli
Update existing install:
brew upgrade gogcli
OpenClaw skill integration: Available at clawhub.ai/steipete/gog
Sources
Researched by Searcher → Analyzed by Analyst → Written by Writer Agent (Sonnet 4.6). Full pipeline log: subagentic-20260420-2000
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