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Google Workspace MCP Server

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

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

Known issues

26 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 12.

Most discussed

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 · 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 · 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

{
  "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

### Windows: OAuth flow hangs, browser not opening (spawn start ENOENT)

## 🐛 Bug: OAuth authentication hangs on Windows (browser fails to open)

### Summary
When running the `google-workspace-mcp` server via Claude Code on Windows, the OAuth authentication flow hangs. The server attempts to open the browser but fails with:

[gws-mcp] OAuth: opening browser for consent [gws-mcp] Failed to open browser: spawn start ENOENT


As a result, authentication never completes.

---

### Environment
- OS: Windows 11  
- Claude Code: v2.1.87 (native install)  
- Node: Ins

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/85) · 2026-03-31 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### # Bug Report: Unauthorized Email Sent Without Approval

# GitHub Issue for google-workspace-mcp

**File at:** https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/new

**Title:** draft_gmail_message sends email instead of creating draft

**Labels:** bug

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## Summary

The `draft_gmail_message` function appears to be sending emails immediately instead of creating drafts in the Gmail drafts folder.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Call `draft_gmail_message` with valid parameters:

```json
{
  "user_google_email": "user@example.com",
  "to": "recipient@e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/52) · 2026-01-20 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### [BUG] manage_docs get only returns the first tab of a multi-tab Google Doc

`manage_docs` with operation `get` returns the content of the first tab only. There's no error and nothing in the response to indicate the document has other tabs, so the partial content reads like the whole file.

**Steps To Reproduce**

1. Create a Google Doc with several tabs and put different text in each one.
2. Call `manage_docs` with `operation: get`, the document ID, and an authenticated account email.
3. Compare what comes back against the document. Only the first tab is there.

**Expec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/152) · 2026-07-27 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Expose slides.presentations.batchUpdate

**Method:** `slides.presentations.batchUpdate` (`POST`)

**Google's description:** Applies one or more updates to the presentation. Each request is validated before being applied. If any request is not valid, then the entire request will fail and nothing will be applied. Some requests have replies to give you some information about how they are applied. Other requests do not need to return information; these each return an empty reply. The order of replies matches that of the requests. For examp

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/151) · 2026-07-27 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Bug: Server fails to start on Windows due to hardcoded PATH delimiter (using : instead of ;)

Description: Hi! I love the concept of this MCP server, but I ran into a hard crash when trying to run it on a Windows machine.

It looks like the server assumes the PATH environment variable is separated by colons (:), which is true for macOS and Linux. However, on Windows, the PATH is separated by semicolons (;).

Because of this, when the server boots up and tries to locate the gws executable, it fails to parse the Windows path correctly and the server crashes immediately.

To Reproduce:

Try

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/150) · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Server outlives its MCP client, then spins at 100% CPU — uncaughtException handler loops forever on a dead stderr

## Environment

- `@aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp` 4.0.1, launched via `npx -y @aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp` (stdio transport)
- Client: Claude Code 2.1.x on macOS (Darwin 25.5.0)
- Node v24.8.0

## Symptom

After a Claude Code session ends uncleanly (crash, force-quit, killed terminal), the server process does not exit. Worse, it doesn't just idle — it pegs one CPU core at 100% indefinitely. Today I found two orphaned instances that had each burned 31 minutes of CPU time in 31 minutes of wall t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/149) · 2026-07-16 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### reply silently ignores attachments/draft params — always sends live, attachment never attaches

## Summary

`reply` silently ignores both the `attachments` and `draft` parameters — despite the tool's own JSON schema documenting `draft` as "forced true when attachments present," implying this applies across operations. In practice, only `send` implements that behavior; `reply` sends live every time, with no attachment, no matter what's passed.

## Root cause (exact location)

In `services/gmail/patch.js`, the `customHandlers.send` handler (lines 190–232) correctly implements both parameters

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/132) · 2026-07-01 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### [FEATURE] Generic api_call operation for arbitrary Workspace API endpoints

## Problem Statement
Operations are limited to what's surfaced in the YAML manifest. Anything in the underlying `@googleworkspace/cli` / Google API surface that isn't in the manifest is unreachable without a manifest edit + release. For "agent can do anything" use cases, that long tail matters.

## Proposed Solution
A generic `api_call` operation: authenticated request to an arbitrary `*.googleapis.com` endpoint using the active account's credentials. Inputs: `method`, `path`/`url`, `query`, `bo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/131) · 2026-06-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [FEATURE]  manage_email send operation lacks from parameter for Send As aliases

## Problem Statement
The `manage_email` send operation has no `from` parameter. The sender is controlled entirely by the account credentials, so Gmail always falls back to the account's default Send As address. There is no way to specify a verified Send As alias as the sender through the MCP.

## Proposed Solution
Add an optional `from` parameter to the `manage_email` send operation that accepts either a plain address (`user+alias@gmail.com`) or an RFC 2822 formatted string (`Agent Name <user+al

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aaronsb/google-workspace-mcp/issues/127) · 2026-05-12 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for Google Workspace](/mcp/google-workspace/issues) — of 26 qualified upstream.

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