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🗂️ Google Workspace CLI
Imagine running Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar from the terminal — and, on top of that, build your own skills. That's exactly what the Google Workspace CLI lets you do. Technically, it's not an official Claude "feature," but it's so useful that it makes the list as honorable mention #1: living proof that Claude can drive any CLI.
🧩 Why it makes the list
It's not just "sending email with a command." It's a demonstration of a broader principle:
- •If something has a CLI, Claude can operate it.
- •You can wrap repeated office workflows in skills.
- •Your entire Workspace becomes conversational automation.
Gmail, Drive, Docs…
Wrap your workflows.
The principle it proves.
Unofficial, but top-notch.
📨 Dispatch & Channels
Two ways to talk to Claude from where you already are. Dispatch: you start the task on your phone and Claude runs on your desktop, sending you the result. Channels: connects Telegram, Discord, or iMessage to a live session — and it works in both directions.
Dispatch from your phone
You send the task from your phone; Claude runs it on your desktop, with the full power of the machine.
Gets the result back
Great for continuing a conversation from your phone: you send it off, leave, and your desktop replies when it’s done.
Channels: live chat
Connect Telegram, Discord, or iMessage to a live session—you send and receive messages through the app you already use.
💡 Practical tip
Use Dispatch when the task is heavy and you don’t want to sit around waiting; use Channels when you want to chat live from inside an app that’s already open.
Mobile → desktop.
Come back to you.
Telegram, Discord, iMessage.
Sends and receives in real time.
🖼️ Claude Desktop App & Claude Design
O Desktop App is the foundation on Mac/Windows for chat, Cowork, connectors, and managing local and cloud routines in one place—and it’s still better for copying and pasting text without the terminal’s weird wrapping. The Claude Design: you describe what you want, and it puts together polished designs, slides, and one-pagers.
✓ Desktop App
- ✓Chat, Cowork, and connectors in one place.
- ✓Manages local and cloud routines side by side.
- ✓Copy and paste text without the terminal’s weird line wrapping.
✓ Claude Design
- ✓Describe it, and it creates polished designs and one-pagers.
- ✓Great for teams: comment and view design systems.
- ✓Generates PPTs fast, without building slides one by one.
💡 Practical tip
Keep the Desktop App as the hub for your routines and use the Design whenever you need to deliver something presentable for others to view or comment on.
Mac/Windows, all together.
Local and cloud in one place.
Slides and one-pagers.
Commentary and quick PPTs.
🗺️ Plan Mode & Auto Mode
Two modes that change how Claude acts. Plan Mode: it researches and proposes a plan before touching anything. Auto Mode: approves safe actions and blocks risky ones without asking — in practice, an excellent permission level.
✓ When to use Plan/Auto
- ✓Plan: a large or ambiguous task that deserves a plan first.
- ✓Auto: long-running work where approving everything gets tiring.
- ✓Auto lets safe actions through and holds back risky ones.
✗ Misunderstandings
- ✗Thinking Auto Mode approves everything blindly — it blocks risky actions.
- ✗Skip Plan Mode on tasks where rework is costly.
- ✗Confusing “planning” with “execution” — Plan only proposes.
💡 Practical tip
Combine the two: start in Plan Mode to align on the approach and, once the plan is approved, let the Auto Mode keep the work moving without interrupting you at every safe step.
Plan before acting.
Approves only what's safe.
Without asking needlessly.
Auto is a level.
⚙️ Hooks, Effort Levels & Ultracode
Three fine-tuned levers. Hooks run their own commands automatically during session events. Effort Levels adjusts reasoning depth from low to maximum (/effort). E Ultracode is the maximum effort tier—full-throttle reasoning plus automatic multi-agent workflows.
# Hooks: rode um comando seu em eventos da sessão on: PostToolUse → rodar lint/format automaticamente /effort high # do baixo ao máximo Ultracode # talo + multi-agente automático
✓ Good use
- ✓A hook that formats/lints after each edit.
- ✓Increase the effort for difficult tasks and lower it for trivial ones.
- ✓Ultracode for the toughest problems.
✗ What to avoid
- ✗Keep everything at maximum effort (wastes resources unnecessarily).
- ✗Hooks that run slow commands on every event.
- ✗Forgetting that low effort is enough for simple tasks.
Commands on events.
From low to maximum.
Maximum effort.
Fully automatic.
👁️ Visibility & savings
The layer that keeps everything under control. Agent View is the dashboard for all terminals/agents running in the background and their status; /btw asks a parallel question without interrupting the main task; and /context shows what's filling up the window. Together, they give you visibility and save tokens.
✓ See and ask
- ✓Agent View: status of all background agents.
- ✓/btw: ask a side question without interrupting the task.
- ✓/background: sends the session to the background.
✓ Save
- ✓/context: what’s filling the window.
- ✓/usage: session tokens and cost.
- ✓Prompt Caching: reuses repeated context and saves a lot of tokens.
💡 Practical tip
O Prompt Caching runs in the background: you don’t need to configure anything to save tokens. Combine /context e /usage to see where the tokens are going.
Agents dashboard.
Question and window.
Tokens and cost.
Saves in the background.
🏁 Module summary
You completed Track 2 🎉
You know Tiers B and A — the useful tier and the near-top tier. Now move up to the star tier: the Top 12, from #12 to #1.