Anthropic’s Claude now has more control over Gmail, allowing its AI to send emails on your behalf. The Claude connector for Google Workspace has been available for over a year to help you manage your Google accounts, but this is the first time it can send an AI-generated message.
The tool now lets you enter a prompt to ask Claude to draft, reply to, or forward emails, and you can choose whether to confirm approval of the task before sending or let Claude send without a final check.
By default, you'll be asked to approve all messages, with Anthropic saying those on Team and Enterprise plans will see "owners decide whether members can allow these actions to run without asking each time.” The feature is now available for everyone on paid Claude plans of all tiers.
The upgrade also improves file management in its Google Drive integration by enabling prompts to share, move, or delete files across your cloud storage. Anthropic says it will, by default, ask for approval before each of these actions, much like it does when sending emails.
Anthropic confirms it can’t do everything with Gmail, saying current limitations mean you can’t access attachments directly through the Workspace connector tool. It also says it may struggle to load a large inbox or interact with particularly complex Gmail filters. Claude also can't extract images embedded in Drive files, instead focusing its AI tools on text.
The tool also gives you access to your Google Calendar, although there are no changes to the service in this latest update. You can continue to view, create, update, and manage events, as well as set up recurring meetings or manage attendees.
Claude’s Cowork agentic tools are also now available across all mobile and web interfaces if you have a paid account. Anthropic confirmed the rollout finished on Aug. 18, allowing you to ask Cowork to start a task and then pick up the results on another logged-in device later. It means you can now run a task on your computer and access the results on your smartphone or another less powerful device.