Gmail MCP connector
The Gmail connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent read, draft, label, and send email from a person's own Gmail inbox, with every action logged and limited to what that person can already do.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect Gmail to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Gmail once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Gmail.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Gmail. Gmail's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect Gmail to Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect Gmail to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect Gmail to Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Gmail to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Gmail through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Sales
Catch up on a prospect thread before a call
Ask for everything a prospect has said across the whole thread, get the open questions pulled out, and have a reply drafted ready to review before you dial.
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Support
Triage the shared inbox each morning
Have the overnight messages sorted by urgency, labeled by issue type, and a first reply drafted for each, so the desk starts the day with a plan instead of a pile.
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Recruiting
Draft candidate follow-ups after interviews
Pull the interview thread, write a follow-up for each candidate in your own tone, and leave it in drafts for you to read and send.
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Finance
Find every invoice that arrived this month
Search the inbox for supplier invoices and receipts, list the attachments, and label them so nothing is missed at close.
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Operations
Clear the inbox of newsletters and notices
Label or trash the automated notices, subscriptions, and calendar noise in one pass so the messages that need a person stay visible.
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Executive assistant
Summarize a long thread and reply for review
Get a plain summary of a thirty-message thread, a proposed reply saved as a draft, and the thread labeled for follow-up, all without opening each message.
Try asking
- “Summarize unread threads in the shared support inbox today.”
- “Draft a reply to the latest message from Acme.”
- “List drafts older than a week and who owns them.”
AI tools
Gmail tools for your AI agents
57 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Gmail, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
See it in Elaichi
What connecting Gmail gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Gmail account.
The agent
Ask about threads, get answers back.
Type a question in plain language and read live Gmail messages and drafts.
- messages
- threads
- drafts
- attachments
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize unread threads in the shared support inbox today.
Draft a reply to the latest message from Acme.
List drafts older than a week and who owns them.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor read Gmail.
One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK and no shared API key.
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Tool catalog
57 Gmail tools ready to call.
Messages, threads, drafts, attachments and batches, with no custom code to write.
- List all Gmail messages
- Get single Gmail message by ID
- Create a Gmail message
- Update a Gmail message by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Support keeps threads, Sales keeps drafts, each toolbox scoped to one team.
- Support
- Sales
- Recruiting
- Finance
Shared connections
Teammates send mail without the password.
See who connected each Gmail account and which teams and members use it.
- Support EMEA
- Sales US
- Recruiting
- Billing
Audit log
Every Gmail call is on record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, in an append only log.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule fires, a digest gets sent.
Six steps fetch threads, group them, draft a digest, wait for approval, then send.
Gmail digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch messages
Gmail
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Gmail
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Gmail numbers computed, not requested.
Four metrics, 14 days of messages created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
Gmail health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the messages collection
Messages
1,284 ↓ 12%
Threads
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Messages created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support EMEA 34%
Sales US 27%
Recruiting 21%
Billing 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Gmail to Claude?
Connect Gmail in Elaichi first: pick Gmail from the catalog, click connect, and sign in with your Google account when Google's own sign-in page appears. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the address. Sign in to Elaichi when Claude asks, and Gmail is ready to use.
Does Gmail work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Gmail is connected in Elaichi, the same address, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Gmail once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Gmail data?
With Gmail connected, an agent can search and read your messages and threads, open attachments, summarize a long conversation, and write replies as drafts for you to check before sending. It can also send a draft, apply and manage labels, mark messages, and move email to the trash. Short, concrete asks such as "find the invoice from Acme last week" work better than long paragraphs of instruction.
Does connecting Gmail give the AI my whole inbox?
An agent working through Gmail sees only what the person who signed in can see in their own Google account, nothing more. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example read-only access to Gmail with no sending or trashing, but it can never widen what Google already allows. Access follows the person, not the tool.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Gmail?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading and drafting in Gmail while blocking sending, trashing messages, or deleting labels. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Gmail connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Gmail through every client at once. If they connected a shared Gmail inbox, that connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. Disconnecting Gmail once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and every other client in one step.
Put Gmail in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.