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Read this before the first Google Drive, Docs, Sheets or Slides connector call whenever the task creates or changes a Google file. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create or change a Google Doc, Sheet or Slides file in their Google Drive. Triggers include: a request that names Google Docs, Sheets, Slides or Drive and asks to make, edit, format, copy or rename a file; a docs.google.com link with a request to change that file, even a one-line fix or suggested edits; and any follow-up change to a Google file from earlier in the chat, even "change it" or "add a tab". Includes helper scripts for document positions, cell ranges and slide layout. However, if the user asks for a doc, deck or spreadsheet without naming Google, or gives a Google file only as source material for something new, use Claude's own output type instead. Do NOT use for read-only questions about a Google file, or for Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files.

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# Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

The Google connectors are thin wrappers over Google's raw APIs, with almost no guidance of their own. This skill supplies that guidance: which connector does what, the rules that keep edits in the user's file, and, in one reference file per app, how each API really behaves. Most of the app-specific rules in the references were tested against Google's Docs, Sheets and Slides APIs; the rest were seen through the connectors, and a few have not been checked yet.

## Read the reference before you touch the file

| Working on | Read first | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A Google Doc | `references/docs.md` | Docs edits address UTF-16 positions that shift after every insert and go stale after every write. Tabs and pending suggestions change the positions too. |
| A Google Sheet | `references/sheets.md` | Both write tools parse input like the Sheets UI, so text can silently become numbers or dates. Formatting needs numeric sheet IDs, 0-based ranges, and field masks without parentheses. |
| A Google Slides deck | `references/slides.md` | Positions are in EMU, an element's real size is its size times its scale, and an unmasked read can exceed 150 KB for three slides. Slides never shrinks text to fit. |

Read the reference for every app the task touches before the first edit. Embedding a Sheets chart in a deck means reading both. The references are short, and skipping one is how edits land in the wrong place.
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