Google Drive

Google Workspace

Search, organize, and share your files and folders in Drive

What You Can Do

Google Drive is your cloud file system — OpenClaw lets you navigate, manage, and automate it conversationally.

  • Search files — Find files by name, MIME type, owner, date modified, parent folder, or full-text content
  • List folder contents — Browse directories and shared drives
  • Download files — Retrieve file content for text-based files (Docs, Sheets, plain text)
  • Upload files — Create new files with specified content in a target folder
  • Create folders — Organize your Drive hierarchy
  • Move files — Change parent folder to reorganize
  • Rename files — Update file names without changing content
  • Copy files — Duplicate documents while preserving originals
  • Trash and delete — Move to trash or permanently delete files
  • Share and permissions — Add editors, viewers, or commenters by email; change link sharing settings
  • File metadata — Get ID, owner, size, MIME type, creation and modification dates

    • Try Asking

  • "Find the Q4 sales report in my Drive"
  • "List everything in my 'Projects/2025' folder"
  • "Upload this content as a new text file called 'meeting-notes-feb26.txt' in the Work folder"
  • "Create a folder called 'Client Deliverables' inside the Projects folder"
  • "Share the marketing deck with jane@partner.com as a viewer"
  • "Move all files matching 'draft' in my root folder into the Archives folder"
  • "Find all spreadsheets modified in the last 7 days"
  • "What's the sharing status of the Q1 roadmap file?"

    • Pro Tips

  • Use file IDs for unambiguous operations — the agent can look them up by name first
  • MIME type filtering speeds up searches: `application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet`, `application/pdf`
  • Shared drives require `supportsAllDrives=true` — the skill handles this automatically
  • Combine with Docs/Sheets: find a file in Drive, then read or edit its content
  • Permissions have three roles: reader, writer, commenter — and two types: user, anyone
  • Trash is not immediate deletion — files stay recoverable for 30 days