Create a Google Doc from a Template
SkillDev toolsThis skill lets your AI create Google Docs from your templates. Once added, it can copy a template, fill in the content you need, and share the finished document with your teammates. It is useful for turning a document you reuse often into a ready-to-read file without doing the copying and sharing by hand.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add the skill, then ask your AI to create a document from one of your Google Docs templates, tell it what content to fill in, and who should have access.
Then ask your AI: use the Create a Google Doc from a Template skill
What your AI can do with it
- Create a new Google Doc by copying a template
- Fill in text and content in the new document
- Share the finished document with collaborators
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by googleworkspace/cli in skills/recipe-create-doc-from-template/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe:
gws-drive,gws-docs
Copy a Google Docs template, fill in content, and share with collaborators.
Steps
- Copy the template:
gws drive files copy --params '{"fileId": "TEMPLATE_DOC_ID"}' --json '{"name": "Project Brief - Q2 Launch"}' - Get the new doc ID from the response
- Add content: `gws docs +write --document-id NEW_DOC_ID --text '## Project: Q2 Launch
Objective
Launch the new feature by end of Q2.'4. Share with team:gws drive permissions create --params '{"fileId": "NEW_DOC_ID"}' --json '{"role": "writer", "type": "user", "emailAddress": "team@company.com"}'`
Signals
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
recipe-create-doc-from-template- Source
- github.com/googleworkspace/cli