Claude has learned more great skills. It will send emails for you and keep Google Drive organized

Anthropic has expanded its Google Workspace connectors with a capability that was noticeably missing until now: Claude can now truly send emails, not just draft them. Along with this, it has gained more control over files on Google Drive. This new feature is part of Claude’s cross-application connectors, including the mobile one, and is available to users of all paid plans.

Claude can finally send emails on its own

The Gmail connector was already available, but it primarily allowed searching and reading mail. Anthropic has now added the sending capability, which was previously missing. You can ask Claude to reply to a specific thread, and it will write and send the reply directly. In addition to replying, it can also forward messages, work with labels and threads, or list saved drafts. What remains beyond its reach is the content of attachments – it only sees metadata for them, not the file itself.

Google Drive: from searching to full file management

A similar shift applies to Google Drive. In addition to searching and reading documents, Claude can now also share, move, and trash files, create folders, or upload its own data. It can read Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, and Office files, but it won’t extract text from images within documents (it only processes written content). Furthermore, it can save generated files directly to Drive if you have code execution and file creation enabled.

Who decides when Claude presses “send”?

By default, Claude will ask for your confirmation before every send, reply, or forward. However, it also offers the option to disable this consent – in which case it will send the message without you seeing it beforehand. Some write about the new feature saying that Claude can send emails “even without your permission,” but it’s more accurate to say that you either keep this safeguard or consciously remove it. For Team and Enterprise plans, the organization owner decides whether members are allowed to bypass approval.

Would you let Claude send emails for you without seeing them before they are sent?

Sources: Anthropic, 9to5Google