Google Calendar Automation

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to automate Google Calendar workflows, including creating, updating, and deleting events. It leverages Composio's Google Calendar toolkit via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for seamless integration. The agent can check availability, manage attendees, and browse calendars – all through structured tool calls rather than natural language processing of calendar data.

When to use it

• Scheduling meetings with specific durations and times.
• Updating existing calendar events with new details or rescheduling them.
• Checking for available time slots before booking a meeting.
• Deleting unwanted or outdated calendar entries.
• Identifying the ID of a specific calendar within your Google account.

Key capabilities

• Event Creation: Creates new calendar events.
• Event Updating: Patches (updates specific fields) and fully replaces existing events.
• Event Deletion: Removes events from the calendar.
• Availability Checks: Determines free time slots using GOOGLECALENDAR_FIND_FREE_SLOTS.
• Calendar Browsing: Lists available calendars via GOOGLECALENDAR_LIST_CALENDARS.
• Timezone Handling: Supports IANA timezone names for accurate scheduling.

Example prompts

These are not natural language prompts, but rather instructions to the AI agent regarding which tools to call:

1. "First, list my calendars. Then, find a free slot and create an event with a duration of 1 hour."
2. "Update the existing event by patching the description field."
3. "Delete the event scheduled for tomorrow at 9 AM."

Tips & gotchas

• MCP Requirement: This skill requires Rube MCP to be connected and functional (RUBE_SEARCH_TOOLS must respond).
• Google Calendar Connection: An active Google Calendar connection is needed via RUBE_MANAGE_CONNECTIONS with the googlecalendar toolkit. You may need to complete OAuth authentication if the connection isn't already active.
• Timezone Format: Use IANA timezone names (e.g., 'America/New_York') when specifying timezones, not abbreviations like 'EST'.
• Date/Time Format: Event start times must be provided in ISO 8601 format ('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS').