--- title: "Google Drive MCP server · Connect AI agents to Drive" description: "Connect inference.eu agents to Google's official Drive MCP server to search, read, create and copy files in Google Drive, with your own OAuth client." canonical: "https://inference.eu/connect/google-drive/" language: "en" --- MCP servers · Productivity # Google Drive MCP server: connect AI agents to Google Drive from the EU Google offers an official remote MCP server for Google Drive, part of its Google Workspace MCP servers, currently in Developer Preview. It lets agents search files, read their content and metadata, and create or copy files. inference.eu agents connect to it with OAuth through a client in your own Google Cloud project. [Contact sales](https://inference.eu/contact/)[What agents can do with it](#tools) 1. 01Authentication: OAuth 2. 02Official server 3. 03EU data centres ## What agents can do with it - 1 ### Search and list files \`search\_files\` finds files by name, content or other Drive query terms, and \`list\_recent\_files\` lists what the user worked on recently, within the files that user can access. - 2 ### Read content and metadata \`read\_file\_content\` returns a file's text, \`download\_file\_content\` fetches its raw content, and \`get\_file\_metadata\` and \`get\_file\_permissions\` show owners, dates and who it is shared with. - 3 ### Create and copy files \`create\_file\` creates a new file in Drive, for example a report or summary, and \`copy\_file\` duplicates a template so the agent can work on a fresh copy. ## What Google Drive and its MCP server are Google Drive is Google's file storage and sharing service, used with Docs, Sheets and Slides across Google Workspace. Google LLC is based in Mountain View, California. Google publishes official remote MCP servers for several Workspace products. The Drive server runs at `https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1` and is in Developer Preview, so tools and behaviour may still change. It acts with the OAuth access of the signed-in user and sees only files that user can open. It offers searching, reading, metadata, permissions, creating and copying, but no tools for deleting files or changing sharing. ## What agents can do with Google Drive A sales agent can find the latest proposal for a customer, read it and answer questions about agreed terms with a link to the file. A finance agent can copy a monthly report template and fill a new file with figures gathered from other connectors. Legal and operations teams can ask "which contracts in this folder are shared outside the company?" and get an answer from file permissions. Project agents can read the documents linked in a brief before drafting a plan. ## Setup and authentication Google's Workspace MCP servers need a Google Cloud project with the Drive API and the Drive MCP service enabled, and an OAuth client configured for that project. Your Workspace admin may need to allow the app. Add the Google Drive connector on inference.eu, enter your OAuth client details and sign in with the Google account the agent should use. Choose the narrowest scopes that work. Tokens are stored encrypted in the EU and used only by the agents you allow; the user can revoke access in their Google account settings. ## Data protection and where the data goes Files are fetched from Google's own MCP endpoint, so data stays with Google, a US company, as it does for your other Drive integrations. Google Workspace offers data regions for files on some editions, which control where content is stored at rest. On inference.eu, the model that reads your files runs in EU data centres, and your Google credentials are stored encrypted in the EU. Drive often holds contracts, HR files and customer data, so connect agents through an account that only has access to the folders they need. ## Approvals and safe use Most Drive tools only read, which limits the risk to what the agent can see. Creating and copying files adds content to Drive and can place it in shared folders that other people see. On inference.eu you can let searches and reads run on their own and require a person's approval before an agent creates or copies a file. Because the server reads permissions as well as content, keep in mind that an agent can report who has access to a document; treat that as sensitive information in its answers. ## Google Drive Vendor Google LLC Vendor based in United States Category Productivity Authentication OAuth Transport Remote (HTTP) Server [Official server](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/reference/mcp) Documentation [developers.google.com](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/configure-mcp-servers) ## Google Drive: common questions The questions buyers, developers and legal teams ask us most. Something missing? Ask us directly. Yes. Google offers an official remote Drive MCP server at https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1 as part of its Google Workspace MCP servers. It is in Developer Preview, so tools and behaviour may change before general availability. Search files, list recent files, read file content, download raw content, read metadata and permissions, create new files and copy existing ones. It does not offer tools for deleting files or changing sharing settings. A Google Cloud project with the Drive API and the Drive MCP service enabled, and an OAuth client for that project. Your Workspace admin may need to allow the app before users in your organisation can sign in. Add the Google Drive connector on inference.eu, enter your OAuth client details and sign in with the Google account the agent should use. The tokens are stored encrypted in the EU and used only by the agents you allow. It sees the files the signed-in user can open, including shared drives they belong to. To limit an agent, connect it with an account that only has access to the folders it needs rather than a broad admin account. No. The Drive MCP server offers no tools for deleting files or changing permissions. It can read permissions, create new files and copy existing ones, and on inference.eu you can require approval for those writes. Yes. Docs, Sheets and Slides are Drive files, so the agent can find them, read their text content and copy them. Detailed editing of a document's structure is outside what the Drive server offers. Google serves files from its own systems, with data regions available for some Workspace editions. The model on inference.eu that reads them runs in EU data centres, and your Google credentials are stored encrypted in the EU. 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