drv

A command-line manager for Google Drive, written in Rust. It began with a simple itch — I wanted ls, mv, and cat to work on my Drive the way they work on my filesystem — and grew into something more interesting.

$ drv search "the contract that mentions early termination fees"
$ drv prompt --in MSc "what did the CUDA papers propose for FDTD?"
$ drv do "find all empty files in this folder and delete them" --in Projects

The filesystem layer does what you would expect: paths resolve from the Drive root, vim opens a file in your editor and writes it back only if it changed, rm only ever means the recoverable Trash, and an interactive browser marks which items are shared and which are merely shortcuts to content stored elsewhere.

The layer I use most is the semantic index. drv index extracts the text of documents and PDFs in folders you name, chunks it, and embeds it with a small model running entirely on your own machine — nothing leaves it, and drv search then works offline, finding files by meaning rather than by keyword. drv prompt builds on that: it retrieves the most relevant passages and has Claude answer your question with citations linking back to the source files. If you have Claude Code installed, it rides your existing subscription — no API key required.

The most recent layer is drv do, which accepts an instruction in plain language — "consolidate these two folders", "prefix each file with its created date" — explores the folders it needs to see, and produces a concrete plan over a deliberately small vocabulary of operations. The plan is printed in full and nothing executes until you confirm it. Designing the guard rails — plans can only touch listed items, deletion only means Trash, no invented email addresses — was as interesting as making it work at all.

Tokens live in the macOS Keychain, multiple Google accounts each keep their own credentials and index, and it installs with brew install vramdhanie/tap/drv.