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v0.1.10 — trim to 68 skills (drop recipe-* + niche gws-*)

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@the-sid-dani the-sid-dani released this 11 May 17:56
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v0.1.10
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What's new

Re-trim the v0.1.9 bundle to a leaner 68 skills based on a critical re-assessment of the recipe-* and gws-* skill families.

Net: 117 → 68 skills (-49 dropped, +0 added)

Dropped — 38 recipe-* skills (all of them)

Each recipe was ~27-29 lines — thin "use gws-X and gws-Y together for Z" tutorials. Claude composes the same flows on the fly from the underlying gws-* primitives without needing the recipe pre-baked. The recipes didn't add value over Claude's native composition; they bloated the skill registry for routing.

If you want a specific recipe locally, gws generate-skills recreates them all in ~/.claude/skills/ based on the gws CLI's recipe catalog.

Dropped — 11 niche gws-*

Family Why dropped
gws-tasks Google Tasks is niche vs Jira / Linear / Asana for most teams
gws-chat, gws-chat-send Google Chat Spaces — most teams use Slack (and the harness has a Slack MCP)
gws-script, gws-script-push Google Apps Script — developer-niche
gws-workflow + 5 variants Overlap with the recipe-* composition pattern that's also dropped

Kept — 21 gws-* (universal-utility primitives)

  • Gmail (8): gws-gmail, gws-gmail-forward, gws-gmail-read, gws-gmail-reply, gws-gmail-reply-all, gws-gmail-send, gws-gmail-triage, gws-gmail-watch
  • Calendar (3): gws-calendar, gws-calendar-agenda, gws-calendar-insert
  • Drive (2): gws-drive, gws-drive-upload
  • Docs (2): gws-docs, gws-docs-write
  • Sheets (3): gws-sheets, gws-sheets-append, gws-sheets-read
  • Slides (1): gws-slides
  • Meet (1): gws-meet
  • Shared helper (1): gws-shared (referenced by all gws-* skills for auth + global flags)

New total: 68 skills

Category Count
First-party 15
Design 26
Atlassian 3
Research 2
samba-publish 1
gws-* 21
Total 68

Why this trim makes sense

The previous v0.1.9 bundle added 70 skills (32 gws-* + 38 recipe-*) to make the workspace "batteries included." But:

  • 38 recipe- skills were thin tutorials, not real skills.* Claude composes forward labeled emails to X from the gws-* primitives without needing a 27-line recipe pre-baked.
  • 11 gws- families don't match most fork users' actual usage* — Google Tasks/Chat/Script/Workflow are either replaced by other tools (Jira, Slack) or developer-niche.

v0.1.10 is a more honest bundle: ship the primitives that have utility (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet) and let Claude compose them on demand.

What stayed the same

  • /briefing graceful degradation (v0.1.7 T4) — still gates on command -v gws
  • v0.1.8 workspace folder READMEs — still ship
  • v0.1.8 manual 3-line install flow — unchanged
  • v0.1.9 persona-* removal — still removed (fork users pick persona via /bootstrap)

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