Google Docs AI Agent Integration

Overview

The Google Docs integration connects your Claws to your organization’s documents through Google’s OAuth flow. Claws can read existing documents, create new ones with full rich text formatting, and edit content, all from within their isolated ClawCage containers. Whether you need automated report generation, living documentation that stays current, or document processing workflows, your Claw handles the writing.

You choose the access level during setup. Read-only mode lets your Claw read document content for analysis and extraction. Full access enables document creation and editing. Only the scopes you select are requested from Google.

What Your Claw Can Do

Read document content. Your Claw can read the full content of Google Docs including text, headings, lists, tables, links, and formatting. It can extract structured information from documents for processing in other tools.

Create new documents. With full access, your Claw can generate complete Google Docs with proper formatting: headings, bullet lists, numbered lists, tables, bold/italic text, and links. Documents are created in Drive and can be placed in specific folders.

Edit existing documents. Claws can append to, update, or restructure existing documents. This enables living documentation that evolves as your project progresses: meeting notes that accumulate over time, changelogs that grow with each release, and runbooks that update based on incident data.

Template-based generation. Configure your Claw with document templates and it can generate standardized documents (project proposals, status reports, meeting agendas, technical specs) populated with data from your other connected tools.

Batch processing. Your Claw can process multiple documents in sequence: reading a set of documents for analysis, updating a batch of templates, or generating a series of reports from structured data.

Who Can Reach Your Claw

Docs whitelisting controls which documents your Claw can access:

• By shared document. Whitelist specific Google Docs. The Claw only accesses explicitly shared documents.
• By shared folder. Whitelist Drive folders. The Claw can access Docs within those folders.
• By shared drive. Whitelist shared drives for broader access.

This works alongside three Claw scoping levels:

Private Claw. Only the creator interacts. Your Claw drafts documents for your review, maintains your personal notes, and generates reports from your data. Example: a personal writing assistant that drafts weekly status reports using data from your Jira tickets, Slack conversations, and GitHub activity.

Team Claw. Whitelisted team members share the Claw. It maintains team documentation, generates meeting notes, and keeps shared docs current. Example: an engineering team Claw that updates the architecture doc after each sprint, generates retrospective templates, and maintains the team runbook.

Organization-wide Claw. Any org member can request document creation or search. The Claw maintains company-wide documentation and helps anyone generate standardized documents.

Security

• OAuth scope minimization. Read-only requests documents.readonly. Full access requests documents. No extra scopes.
• Tokens encrypted at rest. Docs OAuth tokens are stored with AES-256 encryption and decrypted only inside the ClawCage.
• ClawCage isolation. Each Claw runs in its own Docker container with Docs credentials injected securely at runtime.
• No content stored. Document content is processed in-memory within the ClawCage. ClawStaff does not store document text outside the container.
• Audit logging. Every Docs API call is logged in the ClawStaff dashboard.
• Revoke anytime. Disconnect from ClawStaff or Google account settings to invalidate tokens.

How It Works

1. Connect Google Docs. Start a Google Workspace connection and enable Docs. Choose read-only or full access.
2. Authorize with Google. Review the Docs-specific OAuth scopes and click Allow.
3. Configure your Claw. Define document templates, creation rules, and automation triggers.
4. Claw manages your documents. Your Claw reads, creates, and edits Docs from within its ClawCage container.

Cross-Integration Workflows

Google Docs combined with other tools turns documents into active workflow artifacts:

• Slack discussion to Google Doc. A long Slack thread reaches a decision. Your Claw summarizes the conversation and creates a Google Doc with decisions, action items, owners, and deadlines, posted back to the thread as a link.
• Jira sprint to Google Doc. At sprint start, your Claw generates a sprint planning doc in Google Docs with the sprint goals, backlog items from Jira, and a discussion agenda.
• GitHub PR to Google Doc. When a significant PR is merged, your Claw updates the relevant technical documentation in Google Docs with the new behavior, API changes, or configuration details.
• Google Forms to Google Doc. Survey results are compiled into a formatted analysis document with charts described in text, key findings highlighted, and recommendations drafted.