First-party app
Google Drive

Google Drive

Manage files, folders and shared drives on Google Drive.

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About

Google Drive ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 18 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.google-drive
Version
0.2.2
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Storage · Productivity

Overview

Google Drive manages files, folders and shared drives from a workflow — uploading a file or creating one directly from text, downloading, copying, updating and deleting files, and organizing them into folders that can themselves be created, listed and deleted.

Sharing is a first-class action on both files and folders, so a workflow can grant access as part of the same process that creates or updates content rather than requiring a separate manual step. Shared drives are supported alongside a user’s own Drive — they can be created, listed, fetched, updated and deleted, which matters for any team that organizes its files under a shared drive rather than a personal one.

Useful for generating and distributing documents, archiving files produced elsewhere in a workflow, or keeping a folder structure and its sharing permissions in sync with an external process.

Build with Google Drive

Three routes to the same 18 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Google Drive's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Create Shared Drive

drive-create

Create a new shared drive.

Delete Shared Drive

drive-delete

Permanently delete a shared drive. The drive must be empty.

Get Shared Drive

drive-get

Retrieve a shared drive by ID.

List Shared Drives

drive-list

List shared drives visible to the caller (one page).

Update Shared Drive

drive-update

Update a shared drive's name or color.

Copy File

file-copy

Duplicate a file. If no name is given, `Copy of <original>` is used by Google Drive.

Create File from Text

file-create-from-text

Create a new file whose contents are the given text.

Delete File

file-delete

Move a file to the trash, or delete it permanently.

Download File

file-download

Fetch a file's binary contents. Google-native docs are exported when `exportMimeType` is given.

Get File

file-get

Retrieve a file's metadata by ID.

List Files

file-list

List files (one page). Use `q` for Google Drive search syntax.

Share File

file-share

Create a permission (share) on a file.

Update File

file-update

Update a file's metadata (and optionally its content).

Upload File

file-upload

Upload a new file with the given name and base64-encoded content.

Create Folder

folder-create

Create a new folder under the given parent (defaults to My Drive root).

Delete Folder

folder-delete

Move a folder to the trash, or delete it permanently.

List Folders

folder-list

List folders (one page).

Share Folder

folder-share

Create a permission (share) on a folder.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Google Drive's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "google-drive-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "drive-create",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.google-drive",
        "action": "drive-create",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "name": "<name>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Create Shared Drive

    perform
    drive-create
  • Get Shared Drive

    read
    drive-get
  • List Shared Drives

    search
    drive-list
  • Update Shared Drive

    perform
    drive-update
  • Copy File

    perform
    file-copy

+13 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Google Drive, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Google Drive. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "file-upload",
  payload: {
    contentBase64: "<value>",
    name: "<value>",
    // mimeType: "<value>",
    // parentFolderId: "<value>",
    // parentDriveId: "<value>",
    // description: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action file-upload --payload '{"contentBase64":"<value>","name":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Google Drive — without giving it Google Drive's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.google-drive#drive-create",
    "input": {
      "name": "<name>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Google Drive connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Google Drive's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Google Drive itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Google Drive declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Google Drive platform status

Open incidents for Google Drive on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard. Unauthenticated and unsigned.

quota

API quota headroom