Integrate the Google Drive MCP (Model Context Protocol) server with Atomicwork to give your AI Coworkers and automated workflows access to a comprehensive suite of file management and collaboration tools. By connecting this server, your AI Workforce can securely interact with your Google Drive environment to create, edit, search, and manage files and folders directly within your workspace. This integration uses a secure OAuth flow to establish a connection.

Please note that your AI Coworkers need the MCP server to access Google Drive tools. For other usecases, please setup the integration via the App Store.

If you want to configure Google Drive for knowledge ingestion and enterprise search instead, see Google Drive: Permissions and setup and Google Drive: Adding files for the Assistant to learn.

Confirm your prerequisites

To connect the Google Drive MCP server, you must have the following permissions:

Atomicwork admin access: You need org admin access in Atomicwork.
Google Drive admin access: You need Google Drive administrator access to authorize the OAuth flow and grant the necessary permissions.

Connect the Google Drive MCP server

Follow these steps to set up the connection:

Navigate to Settings > MCP Store > Google Drive in your Atomicwork account.
Click on the Google Drive tile and select Connect.
Complete the OAuth authorization flow in the window that appears by logging in with your Google Drive administrator credentials and authorizing the connection.
View the list of available Google Drive tools displayed on your screen once the setup is complete.

Permission	Usecase
drive.file	See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app
drive.readonly	See and download all of your Google Drive files

Configure agent and builder access

After completing the setup, you can control which tools your AI Coworkers can use. This allows you to practice the principle of least privilege by granting only the necessary capabilities to each agent.

Go to AI Workforce > AI Coworkers > Tools.
Select the specific AI Coworker you want to configure.
Grant granular or complete access to the available Google Drive tools based on your requirements.

In addition to standard agents, the Admin Assist workflow builder and the coding agent automatically have access to the MCP server while building workflows and writing custom code scripts respectively.

Understand available tool categories

Once connected, the Google Drive MCP server exposes a wide range of tools. These tools are grouped into the following broad categories:

File and Folder Operations: Actions to create, copy, edit, move, delete, trash, download, and upload files or folders (such as GOOGLEDRIVE_CREATE_FILE, GOOGLEDRIVE_DOWNLOAD_FILE, and GOOGLEDRIVE_UPLOAD_FILE).
Permissions and Sharing: Tools to manage file permissions, shortcuts, and parent-child relationships (such as GOOGLEDRIVE_CREATE_PERMISSION and GOOGLEDRIVE_CREATE_SHORTCUT_TO_FILE).
Comments and Replies: Capabilities to create, update, list, and delete comments or replies within documents (such as GOOGLEDRIVE_CREATE_COMMENT and GOOGLEDRIVE_CREATE_REPLY).
Shared Drives: Actions to manage shared drives, including creating, updating, deleting, hiding, or unhiding them (such as GOOGLEDRIVE_CREATE_DRIVE and GOOGLEDRIVE_HIDE_DRIVE).
Search and Metadata: Tools to find files, list changes, retrieve file metadata, and modify file labels (such as GOOGLEDRIVE_FIND_FILE, GOOGLEDRIVE_GET_FILE_METADATA, and GOOGLEDRIVE_LIST_CHANGES).

Next steps

Now that you have connected the Google Drive MCP server, you can configure your AI Coworkers to use these tools. See Setting up an AI Coworker to learn how to assign tools and set up guardrails.