Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides)

Available from connector 2.112.

What Claude can do

• Search and list files, folders and shared drives
• Read a Google Doc
• Read a Google Sheet (sheets, ranges)
• Read Google Slides and text files

Read-only: nothing is created, edited, shared or deleted. The connector asks Google for read access only (drive.readonly).

Everything the service returns is coded before it reaches Claude.

Before you start

• A Google account.
• The Google access file, with these APIs enabled: Google Drive API, Google Docs API, Google Sheets API, Google Slides API. The same file serves Gmail, Calendar and Drive.

Set up

1. Hidden Tokens dashboard → Connectors.
2. On the Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides) row, click Enable.
3. If the access file is not in place yet: Choose the Google access file… and pick it. It stays on this computer.
4. Click Sign in: your browser opens the Google page. Choose your account and accept.
5. Click Test. The status turns to “Ready”.

Try it in Claude

Find the most recent “meeting notes” document in my Drive and summarise it.

Claude should use a drive__… tool and answer with codes. To get the real values back in a text, ask Hidden Tokens to decode it: they come back on your computer, not in the chat.

Switch off the original connector

In Claude, Settings → Connectors and Extensions: switch off Google Drive. Otherwise the AI can go through it, in clear.

Limits

• Read-only: nothing is created, edited, shared or deleted. The connector asks Google for read access only (drive.readonly).
• If your Google Cloud project is in “testing” mode, Google expires the sign-in after 7 days: click Sign in again.
• Images and binary attachments are not passed to Claude: a pixel cannot be coded.
• Not yet tried with a real account, nor on Windows (9 November 2026).

A problem? See Troubleshooting.