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Google Drive

Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs and Office files with folder permissions.

Google Drive — Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs and Office files with folder permissions.

Provides
Knowledge source
Agent tools
Channel

Setup

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations → Google Drive → Connect.
  2. Authorise with an account that has access to everything you want to make available. For knowledge sources, use an admin or service account; permissions are still enforced per user at query time.
  3. Add Google Drive as a source under Knowledge → (knowledge base) → Add source and choose the scope to include.

What is synced

Content from the scope you select, with its metadata (author, dates, location) and the access rights defined in Google Drive. Changes are picked up by change notifications where Google Drive supports them, otherwise on the schedule you set (15 minutes to daily). Deletions and permission changes are applied on the next sync.

Permissions

Access rights in Google Drive are mapped to workspace users (by email) and groups. A user can only retrieve items they could open in Google Drive itself. See Permissions & access control.

Tools

ToolScopePurpose
google_drive.readreadRead records, messages or files in scope
google_drive.searchreadSearch within Google Drive
google_drive.writewriteCreate or update items; subject to approval policies

Write tools require approval by default until an approval policy says otherwise. Every call is recorded in the run trace.

Triggers

Events from Google Drive (new or updated items in scope) can start agent runs. See Automations & triggers.

Disconnecting

Disconnecting removes the credential from the vault immediately. Documents synced from Google Drive are removed from knowledge bases within minutes and from backups as they rotate.