aai-cli Google Drive

Use this skill when working with Google Drive through aai-cli drive.

Before running commands, confirm the active profile or pass --profile. Drive profiles are ordinary Google REST profiles (provider = "google", auth_type = "bearer_token"), the same shape as Gmail, Calendar, and Sheets.

This arm is read-first. files upload is the one write: it creates a new Drive file from local bytes. Nothing here changes sharing, renames, moves, trashes, or deletes — and permissions is read-only on purpose, so an agent cannot widen who can see a file.

Start from files list (or folders list) to turn a name into a file ID, then files get for full metadata and files download for content. --parent <folder-id> scopes a listing to one folder; --drive-id <id> scopes it to one shared drive. Shared-drive content is included by default.

files download writes to --output and never prints content to stdout. Google-native documents have no bytes of their own, so they are exported instead: Docs to .docx, Sheets to .xlsx, Slides to .pptx, other native types to PDF. Pass --mime-type to choose a different conversion. Exports are capped at 10 MB by Google, and native documents report no size, so that cap only shows up as an error.

For cell-level work on a Google Sheet, use the aai-cli sheets commands instead of downloading the file.

Successful output is JSON on stdout. Errors are structured JSON on stderr. See the command reference for command shapes, flags, response notes, and examples.