Drive

The Drive connector lets your AI assistant search across your Google Drive, read file contents, and organize files into folders.

Reading happens server-side: the text comes back in the response, so nothing is downloaded to a local filesystem and a large file does not have to pass through the conversation to be read.

Available operations

Tool	Description
drive_search	Search files using Drive query syntax, e.g. name contains 'report' or mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet'. Returns names, IDs, types and modification dates. page_size defaults to 20
drive_read_file	Read a file's text content by file ID. Handles Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, Office .docx/.xlsx/.pptx (converted automatically), and .txt/.csv. Returns the extracted text directly, with no local download
drive_create_folder	Create a new folder, optionally inside a parent folder

What drive_read_file can and cannot read

Type	Read as
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides	Extracted text, the same extraction the dedicated tools use
.docx, .xlsx, .pptx	Converted to the matching Google format in a temporary copy, read, and the copy deleted
.txt, .csv	Returned as-is
Anything else, PDFs included	An Unsupported file type error

PDFs are the common surprise: the tool reads text out of documents, not out of scanned or rendered pages.

Required scopes

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

Multiple accounts

Every tool on this page takes an optional account argument: the email address of the connected Google account to act on. Omit it and the default account is used. Connect a personal and a work account and your assistant can read from one and write to the other in the same turn, without you switching profiles.

Example prompts

• "Find the latest Q2 revenue deck in my Drive"
• "Read the contents of the onboarding checklist doc and summarize it"
• "Create a new folder called 'April Reports' inside my Reports folder"
• "Search Drive for all spreadsheets modified in the last week"