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Google Drive MCP: connect Google Drive to Claude and ChatGPT

Ask Claude or ChatGPT what the latest price list says about volume discounts, where the onboarding checklist is, or to summarise last week’s board deck. The AI searches Google Drive, reads the file and gives you the link.

With Deployed OS everyone connects their own Google account. The AI finds only the files that person can already open, in My Drive, shared with them or in shared drives. Nothing is created or changed.

2 read actions · read-only · Works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot

In practice

What your team can do with Google Drive in Claude and ChatGPT

Sales

The right deck, the current one

Find the latest case study or price list in the sales drive and get the three lines that matter for this customer. No guessing between final and final_v3.
HR and onboarding

Answers from the handbook

Holiday rules, the expense policy, how to book travel. New people ask in plain words and get the answer from the Doc it came from, with the link.
Finance

Read the numbers in a Sheet

The first sheet of the budget comes through as rows the AI can read and compare. Ask which cost lines are over plan before the monthly review.
Management

Catch up on what was written

The strategy Doc, the board deck in Slides and Tuesday’s meeting notes, each summarised before the Monday meeting.
Examples

Ask it like this

  • “Find our latest price list in Drive and tell me the volume discounts.”

  • “Summarise the Q3 board deck in five bullets.”

  • “What does our travel policy say about trains versus flights?”

  • “Which Docs about the Nordic launch changed in the last two weeks, and who owns them?”

  • “Read the 2026 budget Sheet and list the cost lines over 100,000.”

  • “Find the supplier agreement with Holm Logistik and give me the link.”

The connector

What the Google Drive MCP connector does today

  • Readsdrive_search_files

    Searches the Drive files you can open, shared drives included, by words in the name or content. Returns name, type, owner, last change and link for up to 20 files.

  • Readsdrive_read_file

    Reads one file as text: Docs and Slides as plain text, the first sheet of a Sheet as CSV, text files as they are. Other files, such as PDFs, return their details and link. Long text is cut at 200 KB.

Need it to do more? We extend connectors for the companies that use them.

Security

Who sees what

Read-only
The connector searches and reads Drive files: Docs, Sheets, Slides and text files as text, other files by name and link. It cannot create, edit, share or delete anything in Google Drive.
Each person’s own rights
Everyone connects their own Google account, so the AI finds what that person can open and nothing else. A folder shared only with finance stays with finance.
You choose who gets it
Admins decide which groups at the company can use the Google Drive connector at all. Everyone else never sees it.
Every call logged
Who searched, which file was read, when. Deployed OS shows reads per connector and per person, the log can be exported, and access is revoked centrally the day someone leaves.
Setup

Set up the Google Drive connector in three steps

01
An admin creates a project in your company’s Google Cloud, sets up an internal OAuth app and turns on the Drive API with read-only access. The same Google app serves Gmail, Calendar, Analytics and Ads, and your company owns it.
02
The admin adds the app’s Client ID and Client secret to Deployed OS and chooses which groups get Google Drive.
03
Each person connects their own Google work account. From then on they just ask, in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot.
Compared

Google Drive’s own MCP server or Deployed OS?

Google runs its own remote MCP servers for Drive, Gmail and Calendar. A developer turns them on in a Google Cloud project and connects an AI client. For one person, or a developer building an agent, that is a good fit.

Deployed OS is built for the whole company: one connection for Google Drive and the rest of your tools, each person’s own login, admins choosing which groups get what, and a log of every call. The same connection works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, next to your company’s skills and guardrails.

Their documentation: Google’s MCP server

Questions

Google Drive MCP: common questions

Yes. Google runs remote MCP servers for Drive, Gmail and Calendar that a developer sets up in a Google Cloud project. Deployed OS gives the whole company one connection instead, with each person’s own login, access per group and a log of every call.

No. It only searches and reads. Nothing is created, edited, moved, shared or deleted. If you want it to do more, for example create Docs, we can extend it for you.

Claude and ChatGPT each have their own Google Drive connector, which links one person’s Drive to that one assistant. Deployed OS is your company’s own Google Drive MCP server: the same connection works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, runs on your company’s Google app, and every call is logged.

Not today. Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and text files are read as text. Other files, such as PDFs or uploaded Word files, come back with their name, owner and link. If you need them read, we can extend it for you.

Deployed is an EU company and fully GDPR compliant, and you choose where your data is stored, down to the city. On-premises is possible too. Files are fetched from Drive when someone asks for them.

It depends on the size of your team. Get in touch and we will walk you through it.

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