Google Workspace MCP

Overview

The Google Workspace MCP Server bridges the gap between AI assistants and the full breadth of Google’s productivity suite. By exposing Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Contacts through a secure, token‑managed interface, it lets developers inject contextual Google data into conversational workflows without exposing credentials or handling OAuth flows manually. This server solves the common pain point of integrating a user’s personal workspace into an AI‑driven application while keeping authentication, refresh logic, and permission scopes encapsulated behind a single MCP endpoint.

Once authenticated via a short OAuth 2.0 dance, the server maintains an active session that automatically refreshes tokens, so developers can focus on building functionality rather than managing logins. The result is a reliable conduit for email queries, calendar scheduling, file retrieval, and contact lookups—all orchestrated through the same protocol that powers Claude’s tool usage. For developers building chatbots, virtual assistants, or productivity overlays, this means a single entry point to pull in real‑time email threads, propose meeting slots, or fetch the latest presentation—all without leaking user data to third‑party services.

Key capabilities include:

• Advanced Gmail handling: search, label, and send emails with fine‑grained filtering; auto‑organize newsletters or track thread responses.
• Calendar orchestration: create, update, and discover free slots; handle recurring events and time‑zone conversions.
• Drive file management: upload, download, search by content or metadata, and set precise permission levels.
• Contact access: retrieve contact lists for personalized interactions or email drafting.
• Multi‑account support: simultaneously manage several Google accounts, enabling role‑based or team‑wide automation.
• Secure authentication: OAuth 2.0 with automatic token refresh, ensuring that only the user’s authorized scopes are exposed.

Typical use cases span from drafting and sending context‑aware emails (“Reply to the last customer inquiry”) to scheduling team meetings that respect everyone’s availability, to pulling in relevant documents for a collaborative discussion. In an AI workflow, the server can be invoked as a tool that supplies up‑to‑date data; for example, a Claude prompt might ask the assistant to “find all PDFs related to project X in Drive” and then generate a summary. The tight integration of authentication, data retrieval, and action execution makes the Google Workspace MCP Server a powerful building block for any application that needs to harness the full power of Google’s ecosystem without compromising security or user experience.