skills/googleworkspace/cli/recipe-cancel-and-notify

recipe-cancel-and-notify

Installation
Summary

Delete a Google Calendar event and send cancellation notifications via Gmail.

  • Requires both gws-calendar and gws-gmail skills to be loaded before execution
  • Workflow: retrieve event details from calendar, delete the event with attendee notifications enabled, then send a follow-up email to attendees
  • Automatically notifies all attendees when sendUpdates is set to "all" during event deletion
SKILL.md

Cancel Meeting and Notify Attendees

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-calendar, gws-gmail

Delete a Google Calendar event and send a cancellation email via Gmail.

[!CAUTION] Deleting with sendUpdates sends cancellation emails to all attendees.

Steps

  1. Find the meeting: gws calendar +agenda --format json and locate the event ID
  2. Delete the event: gws calendar events delete --params '{"calendarId": "primary", "eventId": "EVENT_ID", "sendUpdates": "all"}'
  3. Send follow-up: gws gmail +send --to attendees --subject 'Meeting Cancelled: [Title]' --body 'Apologies, this meeting has been cancelled.'
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