{"slug": "claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf", "title": "Claude Can Now Send Gmail Messages, Sometimes on Your Behalf", "summary": "Anthropic's Claude AI can now send Gmail messages on behalf of users, a first for its Google Workspace connector, with default approval required for all messages and Team/Enterprise plan owners able to decide if members can run actions without asking. The update, available to all paid Claude plans, also improves Google Drive file management by enabling prompts to share, move, or delete files with approval by default, while limitations remain such as no direct attachment access and potential struggles with large inboxes or complex filters. Claude's Cowork agentic tools are now available across all mobile and web interfaces for paid accounts, with the rollout completed on Aug. 18, allowing users to start tasks on one device and access results on another.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nBy default, you'll be asked to approve all messages, with Anthropic [saying](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors) 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nAnthropic 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nClaude’s Cowork agentic tools are also now available across all mobile and web interfaces if you have a paid account. Anthropic [confirmed](https://x.com/claudeai/status/2089756371570900999?s=20) 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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf", "canonical_source": "https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/166796/claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf", "published_at": "2026-08-19 11:53:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 12:40:58.397159+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Google Workspace", "Gmail", "Google Drive", "Google Calendar", "Cowork"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-can-now-send-gmail-messages-sometimes-on-your-behalf.jsonld"}}