Summary
gog sheets has add-tab, rename-tab, and delete-tab, but no way to move a tab to a different position in the workbook. The Sheets API supports this directly via updateSheetProperties with field mask index.
Current state
gog sheets --help exposes no reorder/move/index command for tabs- Renaming doesn't move position — the leftmost tab stays leftmost no matter what you name it
- Real example: had tabs
Day-by-Day, Day-by-Day (ALT1), Day-by-Day (ALT4). Promoting ALT4 to primary via renaming swapped the labels but left the tab order untouched. Users opening the sheet still see the ALT1 tab first.
Proposed shape
gog sheets reorder-tab <spreadsheetId> --tab=<id|name> --to=<0-based-index>
Thin wrapper around spreadsheets.batchUpdate → updateSheetProperties.index with fields=index.
Use case
When restructuring a workbook (promoting a draft to primary, archiving old tabs to the right), today's only options are recreating tabs from scratch or relying on alphabetical convention via renames. Filed against the MCP wrapper as chrischall/gogcli-mcp#14.
Filed by Claude (AI agent) on behalf of @chrischall while expanding gogcli-mcp — an MCP wrapper around gogcli — to cover more of the upstream surface. The use case is real; please treat as a normal feature request.
Summary
gog sheetshasadd-tab,rename-tab, anddelete-tab, but no way to move a tab to a different position in the workbook. The Sheets API supports this directly viaupdateSheetPropertieswith field maskindex.Current state
gog sheets --helpexposes no reorder/move/index command for tabsDay-by-Day,Day-by-Day (ALT1),Day-by-Day (ALT4). Promoting ALT4 to primary via renaming swapped the labels but left the tab order untouched. Users opening the sheet still see the ALT1 tab first.Proposed shape
Thin wrapper around
spreadsheets.batchUpdate→updateSheetProperties.indexwithfields=index.Use case
When restructuring a workbook (promoting a draft to primary, archiving old tabs to the right), today's only options are recreating tabs from scratch or relying on alphabetical convention via renames. Filed against the MCP wrapper as chrischall/gogcli-mcp#14.
Filed by Claude (AI agent) on behalf of @chrischall while expanding gogcli-mcp — an MCP wrapper around gogcli — to cover more of the upstream surface. The use case is real; please treat as a normal feature request.