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Gmail

Search, read and label Gmail threads, and draft replies

Listed in Claude · 5 published tools · Verified partner

Claude connector docs cloud.google.com

Overview

What Gmail does

Google's Gmail connector reaches a mailbox for reading and organising rather than sending. The endpoint answered an unauthenticated tools/list and returned thirteen tools against the five published, so the listing understates the surface considerably. Reads cover thread and message search with pagination, retrieval of a single thread or message, and listing labels and drafts. Writes exist but are confined: creating a draft, applying and removing labels at message or thread level, creating a label, and applying the sensitive Trash or Spam labels. There is no send path, so anything composed stops at a draft that the account holder still has to send.

Who it is for

Knowledge workers who want an assistant reading and organising a Gmail account.

Tool surface

Thirteen tools came back against five published, and the shape is telling: everything that writes either creates a draft or moves a label, including Trash and Spam. Nothing sends mail.

Availability

Where Gmail is listed

Gmail is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Google has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.

The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.

Claude listing

In the Claude connectors directory

Gmail publishes 5 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 22.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.

The median Claude-listed connector filed under Communication publishes 11, so this one sits 6 tools below its bucket's median, 23rd of 29.

It falls in the 4-6 tools band, which holds 16.2% of the Claude directory.

Measured against the live endpoint

A direct call to the endpoint returned 13 tools, 8 more than the 5 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.

Tools the server actually returns

  • create_draft
  • list_drafts
  • get_thread
  • get_message
  • search_threads
  • label_thread
  • unlabel_thread
  • apply_sensitive_thread_label
  • list_labels
  • label_message
  • unlabel_message
  • apply_sensitive_message_label
  • create_label

Gmail publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.

Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.

Publisher
Google
Verification
Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
Filed under
Communication
Endpoint
https://gmailmcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1
Published tools
5 · 4-6 tools band
Depth rank in Communication
23 of 29
Snapshot
August 2026

Gmail carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.

In the publisher's words

How Google describes it

Connect Gmail to Claude to quickly find important emails and understand long conversations. Claude can search through your messages, read entire email threads to give you context, and help you stay on top of your inbox. Perfect for finding that message you remember sending, catching up on email chains you missed, or preparing for meetings.

Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.

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All 44 Communication connectors

This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Gmail's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Google, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.

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