It’s practical to access a Cloud Shell VM file system remotely (using ssh, natch) using Visual Studio Code. I’m using this to explore the development of Google Assistant apps because I’d prefer not install Node.JS and npm on my workstation. You may enumerate your Cloud Shell VMs access details with: curl \ --header "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \ --header "Accept: application/json" \ https://cloudshell.googleapis.com/v1alpha1/users/me/environments/default You should receive: { "name": "users/[[EMAIL]]/environments/default", "id": "default", "dockerImage": "gcr.

Google’s tutorial didn’t work for me. In this post, I’ll help you get this working. https://developers.google.com/assistant/conversational/quickstart Create and set up a project This mostly works. I recommend using the Actions Console as described to create the project. I chose “Custom” and “Blank Project” You need not enable Actions API as this is done automatically: For the console work, I’m going to use Google’s excellent Cloud Shell. You may access this through the browser or through a terminal:

Chatting with one of Google’s Trillian team, I was encouraged to explore Trillian’s Map Mode. The following is the result of some spelunking through this unfamiliar cave. I can’t provide any guarantee that this usage is correct or sufficient. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/DazWilkin/go-trillian-map I’ve written about Trillian Log Mode elsewhere. I uncovered use of Trillian Map Mode through Trillian’s integration tests. I’m unclear on the distinction between TrillianMapClient and TrillianMapWriteClient but the latter served most of my needs.