Connecting Google Drive

Connect Google Drive and your agents can search and read your files for you — without ever handling your password. You connect once with your own Google sign-in, and agents use that access only when they act on your behalf.

Google Drive connects through Google's official Drive service. Your agents can search and read your files, and edit or delete the specific files you open or share with the connector — the same access Google describes on the consent screen when you connect.

Setting it up#

There are two ways to set Google Drive up. A workspace admin can enable it once for everyone, or you can connect it just for yourself as a private server.

Admin (for the whole workspace):

1. Open Settings → Agents → Connections and find Google Drive in the Connectors section. Click Add to open the connector's page.
2. On the connector's page, go to the Workspace setup section.
3. In the Google Cloud console, create an OAuth 2.0 client of type Web application, register the callback URL shown in the form, then paste the Client ID and Client Secret and choose Enable for workspace.

Once an admin has enabled Google Drive, every member sees it ready to connect.

Just for you (a personal connection):

1. Open Settings → My Connections and find Google Drive in the Connectors section. Click Add to open the connector's page.
2. On the connector's page, go to the Use it with your own account section.
3. Create an OAuth 2.0 client (type Web application) in the Google Cloud console, register the callback URL shown, paste the Client ID and Client Secret, and choose Add & connect.

This installs Google Drive as your own private connection and connects it as you — no admin needed.

Connecting#

If an admin already set Google Drive up:

1. Open Settings → Connection Preferences (or the Connectors section on the Connections page).
2. Find Google Drive, click Add, and on the connector's page click Connect.
3. Sign in with Google and approve the requested access. You'll be returned to Monad with a green Connected badge.

Once Google Drive is connected, its card turns into a dimmed Added tile and it shows up in your Connections list above — open it from there any time to manage or disconnect it.

From then on you can ask an agent things like "find my Q3 planning doc" or "summarize the latest file in my Reports folder" without thinking about credentials.

What your agents can do#

Your agents act as your account to search and read your files, and to edit or delete the specific files you open or share with the connector. (When you connect, Google's consent screen reflects this — it grants edit and delete access to those individual files, not your whole Drive.) They only ever act within Google Drive — never anywhere else in your account.

Reconnecting#

If you see an amber Reconnect needed badge, your access expired or the permissions changed. Click Reconnect and approve again.

Disconnecting#

Click Disconnect at any time and Monad immediately stops using your Google Drive account. Your connection is yours alone — other members can't use it, and admins can see only that you've connected, never your files or your tokens.