diff --git a/.github/workflows/tools.yml b/.github/workflows/tools.yml
index 8a8d103c66ddba..c6a5fee477b003 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tools.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tools.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ on:
           - corepack
           - doc
           - eslint
+          - googletest
           - libuv
           - lint-md-dependencies
           - llhttp
@@ -237,6 +238,14 @@ jobs:
               cat temp-output
               tail -n1 temp-output | grep "NEW_VERSION=" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" || true
               rm temp-output
+          - id: googletest
+            subsystem: deps
+            label: dependencies, test
+            run: |
+              ./tools/dep_updaters/update-googletest.sh > temp-output
+              cat temp-output
+              tail -n1 temp-output | grep "NEW_VERSION=" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" || true
+              rm temp-output
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@ac593985615ec2ede58e132d2e21d2b1cbd6127c  # v3.3.0
         if: github.event_name == 'schedule' || inputs.id == 'all' || inputs.id == matrix.id
diff --git a/tools/dep_updaters/update-googletest.sh b/tools/dep_updaters/update-googletest.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000000..ba2cdd1be86ad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/dep_updaters/update-googletest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+# Shell script to update GoogleTest in the source tree to the most recent version.
+# GoogleTest follows the Abseil Live at Head philosophy and rarely creates tags
+# or GitHub releases, so instead, we use the latest commit on the main branch.
+
+BASE_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." && pwd)
+DEPS_DIR="$BASE_DIR/deps"
+
+NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1=$(git ls-remote "https://github.com/google/googletest.git" HEAD | awk '{print $1}')
+NEW_VERSION=$(echo "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1" | head -c 7)
+
+echo "Comparing $NEW_VERSION with current revision"
+
+git remote add googletest-upstream https://github.com/google/googletest.git
+git fetch googletest-upstream "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1"
+git remote remove googletest-upstream
+
+DIFF_TREE=$(
+  git diff HEAD:deps/googletest/LICENSE "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1:LICENSE"
+  git diff-tree HEAD:deps/googletest/include "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1:googletest/include"
+  git diff-tree HEAD:deps/googletest/src "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1:googletest/src"
+)
+
+if [ -z "$DIFF_TREE" ]; then
+  echo "Skipped because googletest is on the latest version."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# This is a rather arbitrary restriction. This script is assumed to run on
+# Sunday, shortly after midnight UTC. This check thus prevents pulling in the
+# most recent commits if any changes were made on Friday or Saturday (UTC).
+# Because of Google's own "Live at Head" philosophy, new bugs that are likely to
+# affect Node.js tend to be fixed quickly, so we don't want to pull in a commit
+# that was just pushed, and instead rather wait for the next week's update. If
+# no commits have been pushed in the last two days, we assume that the most
+# recent commit is stable enough to be pulled in.
+LAST_CHANGE_DATE=$(git log -1 --format=%ct "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1" -- LICENSE googletest/include googletest/src)
+TWO_DAYS_AGO=$(date -d 'now - 2 days' '+%s')
+if [ "$LAST_CHANGE_DATE" -gt "$TWO_DAYS_AGO" ]; then
+  echo "Skipped because the latest version is too recent."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+echo "Creating temporary work tree"
+
+WORKSPACE=$(mktemp -d 2> /dev/null || mktemp -d -t 'tmp')
+WORKTREE="$WORKSPACE/googletest"
+
+cleanup () {
+  EXIT_CODE=$?
+  [ -d "$WORKTREE" ] && git worktree remove -f "$WORKTREE"
+  [ -d "$WORKSPACE" ] && rm -rf "$WORKSPACE"
+  exit $EXIT_CODE
+}
+
+trap cleanup INT TERM EXIT
+
+git worktree add "$WORKTREE" "$NEW_UPSTREAM_SHA1"
+
+echo "Copying LICENSE, include and src to deps/googletest"
+for p in LICENSE googletest/include googletest/src ; do
+  rm -rf "$DEPS_DIR/googletest/$(basename "$p")"
+  cp -R "$WORKTREE/$p" "$DEPS_DIR/googletest/$(basename "$p")"
+done
+
+echo "Updating googletest.gyp"
+
+NEW_GYP=$(
+  sed "/'googletest_sources': \[/q" "$DEPS_DIR/googletest/googletest.gyp"
+  for f in $( (cd deps/googletest/ && find include src -type f \( -iname '*.h' -o -iname '*.cc' \) ) | LANG=C LC_ALL=C sort --stable ); do
+    if [ "$(basename "$f")" != "gtest_main.cc" ] &&
+       [ "$(basename "$f")" != "gtest-all.cc" ] &&
+       [ "$(basename "$f")" != "gtest_prod.h" ] ; then
+      echo "      '$f',"
+    fi
+  done
+  sed -ne '/\]/,$ p' "$DEPS_DIR/googletest/googletest.gyp"
+)
+
+echo "$NEW_GYP" >"$DEPS_DIR/googletest/googletest.gyp"
+
+echo "All done!"
+echo ""
+echo "Please git stage googletest, commit the new version:"
+echo ""
+echo "$ git stage -A deps/googletest"
+echo "$ git commit -m \"deps: update googletest to $NEW_VERSION\""
+echo ""
+
+# The last line of the script should always print the new version,
+# as we need to add it to $GITHUB_ENV variable.
+echo "NEW_VERSION=$NEW_VERSION"