Mar 7, 2026 · Cloud Computing

One Command to Control Gmail, Calendar, and Drive—Google’s New CLI for Humans and AI Agents

Google has open‑sourced the Google Workspace CLI (gws), a Rust‑based command‑line tool that lets you manage Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat and more with a single command, offering dynamic API discovery, extensive authentication options, built‑in Agent skills, and a Model Armor security layer, while noting current limitations and setup considerations.

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One Command to Control Gmail, Calendar, and Drive—Google’s New CLI for Humans and AI Agents

Architecture Digest

Jan 5, 2017 · Backend Development

The Past, Present, and Future of APIs: From Mechanical Turk to Autonomous APIs

This article traces the evolution of APIs from early mechanical automata and historic milestones like Deep Blue to today’s REST‑based Web APIs, highlights current challenges such as documentation drift and versioning, and proposes autonomous, self‑describing APIs powered by vocabularies and discovery services.

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The Past, Present, and Future of APIs: From Mechanical Turk to Autonomous APIs