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Google Drive

File search, reading and upload against a Google Drive account

Listed in Claude · 7 published tools · Verified partner

Claude connector docs cloud.google.com

Overview

What Google Drive does

The Google Drive connector searches for files with a structured query, reads the content of Docs, Sheets, Slides and PDFs, downloads raw bytes when the content is not text, inspects metadata and sharing permissions, lists recent files by several sort orders, and creates or copies files. Finding a document whose exact name has been forgotten is the case the listing leads with.

Access follows the authorised Google account and nothing beyond it. The connector is published by Google and carries partner tier. Seven tools are claimed; the endpoint returned eight.

Who it is for

Teams whose documents and spreadsheets live in Google Drive.

Tool surface

Eight observed tools, six of them reads including get_file_permissions and download_file_content; only create_file and copy_file add anything, and nothing deletes, moves or renames.

Availability

Where Google Drive is listed

Google Drive 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

Google Drive publishes 7 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 33.4% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.

The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one sits 5 tools below its bucket's median, 295th of 462.

It falls in the 7-10 tools band, which holds 14.6% of the Claude directory.

Measured against the live endpoint

A direct call to the endpoint returned 8 tools, 1 more than the 7 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.

Tools the server actually returns

  • copy_file
  • create_file
  • download_file_content
  • get_file_metadata
  • get_file_permissions
  • list_recent_files
  • read_file_content
  • search_files

Google Drive 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
Productivity
Endpoint
https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1
Published tools
7 · 7-10 tools band
Depth rank in Productivity
295 of 462
Snapshot
August 2026

Google Drive 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 Google Drive to Claude to search through your documents, read file contents, upload new files, and analyze your data. Claude can find specific documents even when you don't remember the exact name, read and analyze the content of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and PDFs, and upload files directly to your Drive. Useful for finding project notes, extracting data from spreadsheets, preparing meeting materials, or organizing files scattered across your Drive.

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 760 Productivity connectors

This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Google Drive'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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