# Google Workspace by aaronsb MCP Server

Give AI agents access to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and more — multi-account, manifest-driven

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**57 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### [BUG] OOB Deprecated

This repo looks great!

## Bug Description
I've looked at your detailed setup guide but don't see how to configure a redirect URI for a desktop app?

4. Create OAuth 2.0 credentials:
    1. Choose "Desktop application" type
    1. Note your Client ID and Client Secret
    1. Use "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob" as the redirect URI (this enables out-of-band authentication)

## Steps To Reproduce
1. Go to [Google Clients](https://console.cloud.google.com/auth/clients)
2. Create Client
3. Select "Deskto

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/40) · 2025-04-19 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### manage_scratchpad json-mode doc import reads the first tab only

`manage_scratchpad` import with `mode: 'json'` calls `documents.get` without
`includeTabsContent`, so a multi-tab document imports as its FIRST TAB ONLY —
the same defect as #152, on a different surface. `mode: 'markdown'` is fine: it
goes through Drive's `files.export`, which returns every tab.

`src/server/scratchpad/adapters/import-doc.ts:93`

This was left out of the #152 fix deliberately, because the obvious change breaks
something. Measured live: with `includeTabsContent=true`, Google **re

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/155) · 2026-07-30 · closed · 2 comments

### Legacy streamable-http: credential refresh triggers session rebinding error for multi-account use

### Bug Description

When using Google Workspace MCP in legacy streamable-http multi-user mode, stored credentials are successfully refreshed after a server restart, but the request fails because the MCP session attempts to rebind to a different Google identity.

The server then incorrectly starts a new OAuth flow even though valid refreshed credentials already exist.

This appears to affect environments where a single MCP server is used with multiple Google accounts by supplying user_google_ema

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/134) · 2026-07-10 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Proposal: opt-in read-only OAuth scopes (access: 'read')

## Proposal

Add an **opt-in** `access: 'read' | 'readwrite'` option to account authentication. When set to `'read'`, it requests the read-only variant of each service scope (`gmail.readonly`, `drive.readonly`, `calendar.readonly`, …) instead of the current read/write scopes (`gmail.modify`, `drive`, `calendar`, …).

**The default stays `'readwrite'`** — fully backward-compatible. No behavior changes unless a user opts in.

## Motivation

In multi-account setups it's common to want least privile

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/130) · 2026-06-03 · open · external user · 2 comments

### manage_calendar.create fails: package emits --attendees, gws CLI takes --attendee (singular)

## Bug

`manage_calendar` operation `create` returns `validationError` whenever the `attendees` param is provided. The package emits `--attendees <comma-string>` to the `gws` CLI, but `gws calendar +insert` only accepts `--attendee <EMAIL>` (singular, can be repeated). The unknown plural flag is rejected at validation time.

## Reproduction

```json
{
  "operation": "create",
  "email": "user@example.com",
  "summary": "Test",
  "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+05:30",
  "end": "2026-05-01T01:00:00

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/116) · 2026-04-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Expose contact groups — list, get, and add/remove members

Google publishes seven `contactGroups` methods and `manage_contacts` exposes none of them. Contact groups are how Gmail labels people — "Family", "Team" — and they are the natural follow-on to the contact operations that shipped in v4.3.0.

## The surface

```
contactGroups.list        contactGroups.get       contactGroups.batchGet
contactGroups.create      contactGroups.update    contactGroups.delete
contactGroups.members.modify
```

`members.modify` is the interesting one: it adds and removes 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/186) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

### Service account domain-wide delegation as a second auth mode, alongside OAuth

Roadmap idea. Today every account authenticates the same way: interactive OAuth, one browser round trip per account, a refresh token on disk. That is right for a person on their own machine and wrong for two cases it currently cannot serve.

## What it would enable

**Workspace administrators acting across a domain.** With domain-wide delegation, one service account can impersonate any user in the domain without each of them consenting individually. "Search every mailbox for this invoice" is not

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/184) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

### Spotlighting only wraps Gmail HTML — Drive, Docs, Meet and Contacts text is unwrapped

Spotlighting (ADR-305) is applied to Gmail HTML bodies and nothing else. Every other source of attacker-controlled text reaches the agent unwrapped.

## Measured

`sanitizeHtmlForAgent` has exactly two callers, both Gmail:

```
src/server/formatting/markdown.ts:75   sanitizeHtmlForAgent(decoded, { source: 'gmail' })
src/server/formatting/markdown.ts:89   sanitizeHtmlForAgent(html,    { source: 'gmail' })
```

Zero references in `src/services/drive/patch.ts`, `src/services/docs/patch.ts`, `src/se

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/183) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

### manage_email reports "Email sent" with Message ID: unknown when Gmail did not confirm a send

`manage_email send` reports success on a Gmail response that never confirmed one.

## The defect

`src/services/gmail/patch.ts:309`:

```js
text: `Email sent to ${to}.\n\n**Subject:** ${subject}\n**Message ID:** ${data.id ?? 'unknown'}`
```

Same shape at `:269` (forward), `:303` (draft) and `:366` (draft reply).

If Gmail returns a body without an `id`, the agent is told **"Email sent to alice@example.com"** with an id of `unknown`. Nothing distinguishes that from a real send, so the agent repo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/182) · 2026-08-17 · closed · 0 comments

### Google Slides: expose it through the scratchpad, the way Docs and Sheets work

Roadmap idea. Related to #151, which asks for `slides.presentations.batchUpdate` specifically — this is the wider shape that would make it useful.

## The idea

Docs and Sheets aren't exposed as raw API calls. They're authored through `manage_scratchpad`: compose or edit content in a buffer, addressed by line or JSON path, then send it — and in JSON mode the buffer live-syncs back to the document. Slides could use the same machinery rather than growing its own editing surface.

That matters beca

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/181) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

### Advertise the .mcpb bundle in the MCP Registry, not just the npm package

We build `google-workspace-mcp.mcpb` and attach it to every release, but `server.json` advertises only the npm package. Other Google Workspace servers in the registry list both, so Claude Desktop users can install straight from the registry listing.

Noticed while adding repository metadata (#179).

## What the entry would gain

```json
{
  "registryType": "mcpb",
  "identifier": "https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/releases/download/v4.4.0/google-workspace-mcp.mcpb",
  "version": "4

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/180) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

### Batch many edits into one documents.batchUpdate / spreadsheets.batchUpdate call

The second bulk axis, found while building the first (ADR-308, #10).

## What's happening now

`manage_docs` and `manage_sheets` already call Google's `batchUpdate` — but each tool call sends exactly one request inside it:

- `src/services/docs/patch.ts:411`, `:439`, `:473` — `requests: [{ … }]`
- `src/services/sheets/patch.ts:334` — `requests: [request]`

Google's `batchUpdate` accepts an **array**. So five edits to one document cost five HTTP calls carrying one request each, where they could c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/175) · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for Google Workspace by aaronsb](/mcp/google-workspace-by-aaronsb/issues) — of 57 qualified upstream.

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