Integration

Connect Google Drive and Gmail

When Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides) fires in Google Drive, your agent runs Create Email Draft in Gmail, or Email Sent in Gmail to Add File Sharing Preference in Google Drive. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

Build solutions, not workarounds.

What do you want Google Drive and Gmail to do together?

Ask the assistant

You'll sign in before anything runs. What you typed comes with you.

Examples

Pick one to fill the box, then change anything: the steps, the wording, even the apps. Go as long as you like.

Connect your AI client

Give your AI client this address.

https://mcp.apiant.ai

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client
Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

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Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

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Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

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Connecting Gmail and Google Drive lets email that arrives or goes out drive what happens to your files, and lets file activity come back as email. A message with a contract can land as a document in the right Drive folder, and a comment on a shared doc can reach the owner's inbox without anyone watching both places.

Example flows

What Google Drive and Gmail can do together

From Google Drive to Gmail

From Gmail to Google Drive

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Google Drive and Gmail

Triggers and actions 9 triggers · 126 actions

Each app on its own

Reviews

What our customers say

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Questions

Google Drive and Gmail, answered

Can attachments from Gmail be saved straight into a Drive folder?

The agent can read a message and its attachment in Gmail, find the folder you name in Google Drive, and create a file there from the message content. Where a folder is missing, it can create the folder first so nothing is filed loose at the top level.

How quickly does a new email or file change get picked up?

Gmail triggers for new and sent mail run on a server-side poll, so there is a short wait before a message is seen. Drive triggers such as a new comment or added sharing permission are checked for changes in the same way, then the matching action runs.

What can start an automation from Google Drive?

Any of Google Drive's 7 triggers in the catalog, including Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides), File Shared (Permissions Added), File Created and File Updated. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

What can your agent do in Gmail when something happens in Google Drive?

Any of Gmail's 41 actions, including Create Email Draft, Send Email, Create Label and Send Draft. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can it also run from Gmail to Google Drive?

Yes. When something happens in Gmail, your agent can act in Google Drive too. This page covers both directions: Gmail's triggers and Google Drive's actions are listed here as well.

Do I have to build a connector for Google Drive or Gmail?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

Can my AI client use Google Drive and Gmail without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.