Summary
Extend the current Google Sheets integration to support appending new rows to an existing, centrally managed Google Sheet from a scheduled agent run. Today, agents can only “create a Google Sheet,” which is insufficient for longitudinal data capture and shared reporting.
Problem
For many operational use cases, teams maintain a single, canonical Google Sheet where each run appends a new row (e.g. date/time, counts, exceptions, links). The current limitation forces one of two suboptimal patterns:
- Sheet sprawl: Each run creates a new Sheet, fracturing history and making trend analysis difficult.
- Manual consolidation: Teams must manually copy data from run-specific Sheets into the central Sheet, adding toil and introducing errors.
Specific pain points include:
- Loss of continuity: No simple way to build a time series within one Sheet for charts, pivot tables, or Looker Studio integrations.
- Access/control issues: Central Sheets usually have curated sharing and protections; newly created Sheets inherit different permissions, increasing risk.
- Automation gaps: Many downstream processes expect an append-only tab on a specific Sheet and fail when data lands elsewhere.
Impact
Enabling agents to append rows to a specified Sheet and tab will:
- Support durable, auditable operational logs (e.g. daily SLA snapshots, ticket queues, build health) with minimal maintenance.
- Unlock trend analysis and dashboarding without ETL, directly on the canonical Sheet.
- Preserve governance by writing into pre-permissioned Sheets and protected ranges.
- Reduce duplication and human error by removing manual copy-paste consolidation.
