# Google Workspace MCP Server MCP Server

Google Workspace as 39 curated MCP tools: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Docs, and Tasks.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Google Workspace MCP Server yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `gws-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.

### Most discussed

### Link to our build seperate full mcp

This scoped mcp is designed for my current work

We should link to options for folks who want ALL of the tools (or provide different scopes for analytics such as the GSC/GA options)

Seems like a clear product suite

[Read the thread](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/gws-mcp-server/issues/36) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 2 comments

### Two workflow-comment fixes blocked on a token scope, and the scope picker still unverified

Tail end of conorbronsdon/personal-context#147, which is now closed. Seven of its nine items merged as #26–#29. These two need a person, so they're recorded here rather than left in a closed tracker.

## 1. Two workflow-file comment corrections — blocked on a token scope

Both fixes are written and rebased onto current `main`, but they cannot be pushed: the local `gh` token carries `gist, read:org, repo` and not `workflow`, so GitHub rejects any push touching `.github/workflows/`.

**To ship:**

[Read the thread](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/gws-mcp-server/issues/30) · 2026-08-02 · closed · 2 comments

### Gate the tools/list payload figure with a computed test, or keep it hedged

Follow-up to #43. The README's context-cost figure has now gone stale twice in two consecutive PRs, so the general case is established rather than hypothetical.

- #34 replaced a hedge ("roughly 27 KB") with an exact `29,550 B` — already wrong at merge time, because a review suggestion had lengthened `slides_batchUpdate`'s description after the measurement was taken.
- #35 then added `attendees` and `sendUpdates` with long descriptions, moving it a further ~950 B.
- Measured on `d734eb5`: **44 t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/gws-mcp-server/issues/45) · 2026-08-08 · closed · 1 comment

### Repo description says 41 tools; the server reports 39

The GitHub repo description reads:

> Curated MCP server for Google Workspace: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Docs, and Tasks via the official gws CLI. 41 focused tools instead of 400.

The number is 39, confirmed three separate ways today:

1. The server's own startup banner: `[gws-mcp] Starting with 39 tools from services: drive, sheets, calendar, docs, gmail, tasks`
2. A live `tools/list` against the container returns 39 entries.
3. `task create` in `docker/mcp-registry` reported `39 tools f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/gws-mcp-server/issues/32) · 2026-08-03 · closed · 1 comment

### drive_files_download fails on macOS: tmpdir() path rejected by gws CLI path validation

## Problem

`drive_files_download` fails on macOS with:

```
Error downloading file: error[validation]: --output '/var/folders/rm/.../T/gws-dl-...' resolves to '/private/var/folders/rm/.../T/gws-dl-...' which is outside the current directory
```

## Root Cause

Line 173 of `build/index.js` creates a temp file using an absolute path:

```javascript
const tmpFile = join(tmpdir(), `gws-dl-${randomBytes(8).toString("hex")}`);
```

The `gws` CLI enforces that `--output` paths must resolve within the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/gws-mcp-server/issues/3) · 2026-04-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Add readOnlyHint/destructiveHint annotations to tool definitions

Tools are currently registered without MCP [tool annotations](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/tools#tool-annotations). Adding `annotations` would let clients reason about side effects and surface clearer consent UI:

- **`readOnlyHint: true`** for the read tools: `drive_files_list`, `drive_files_get`, `drive_files_export`, `drive_files_download`, `sheets_get`, `sheets_values_get`, `calendar_events_list`, `calendar_events_get`, `docs_get`, all `gmail_*_list`/`*_get` tools.
- **`dest

[Read the thread](https://github.com/conorbronsdon/gws-mcp-server/issues/5) · 2026-06-10 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for Google Workspace MCP Server](/mcp/google-workspace-mcp-server/issues).

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