Google Contacts Skill
Status: BLOCKED
Google Cloud project not yet created. OAuth consent screen and credentials not configured.
Required OAuth Scopes
- •
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly— read contacts only
Approval Gate
No approval gate needed — this is a read-only skill. No contact creation, modification, or deletion capability.
Capabilities
- •Search contacts by name, email, phone number
- •List all contacts with basic info (name, email, phone)
- •Get detailed contact info (address, organization, notes, groups)
- •Look up contact by phone number (useful for WhatsApp/SMS context)
- •List contact groups/labels
Privacy
- •Read-only access — no writes to contacts database
- •Contact data is used for context enrichment only
- •Contact data is not stored in OpenClaw memory by default
- •Agent can reference contacts during conversations for personalization
Unblock Steps
- •Create Google Cloud project (shared with gmail-inbox and google-calendar)
- •Enable People API (Google Contacts)
- •Add
contacts.readonlyscope to OAuth consent screen - •Use existing OAuth 2.0 credentials (shared with other Google skills)
- •Run
openclaw config set skills.entries.google-contacts.enabled true