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Google Drive

Cloud storage and file sharing

Overview Context types Tools Use cases Connection Security

Overview

Specs, memos, and the spreadsheet that is quietly a system of record. Modus mines the shared drives you select and, with domain-wide delegation, mines each file as its owner so sharing rules carry through.

What Modus reads

1Shared drive / Personal drive
2Folder
3File

You select the level Modus is allowed to mine. Everything below it is discovered automatically; everything outside it is never touched.

3context types mined

9agent tool groups

2connection methods

6security controls

Context types

Each object Modus mines produces typed context items, addressed by their position in the hierarchy. This is what an agent actually receives.

Drive metadata
The shared drives you select and their structure.
Folder metadata
How the drive is organised and what each folder is for.
File metadata
Documents with their titles, owners, and content signals.

Example context item

google_drive_file_metadata

FinancePoliciesRevenue Recognition v4

Type: Google Doc
Owner: finance-ops@acme.com
Updated: 2026-05-02
Shared with: Finance (group) · Analytics (group)

Tools

Tools are granted per skill, never globally. Anything that changes state in Google Drive is marked as a write and stops for human approval.

Search files / Search folders
Permission mirroringJust-in-time
Search files and folders visible to the account, using Google Drive search syntax.
Browse files
Permission mirroringJust-in-time
List files or folders inside a folder, one page at a time.
Get file details
Permission mirroringJust-in-time
Retrieve metadata for one file or folder by ID.
List shared drives / Get shared drive
Permission mirroringJust-in-time
Enumerate and inspect shared drives.
Create folder
Approval requiredPermission mirroringJust-in-time
Create a folder after explicit confirmation.
Upload document
Approval requiredPermission mirroringJust-in-time
Upload document content after explicit confirmation.
Copy / Move / Update file
Approval requiredPermission mirroringJust-in-time
Copy, move, rename, or update file metadata after explicit confirmation.
Comments
Approval requiredPermission mirroringJust-in-time
Create, update, or delete file comments after explicit confirmation.
Materialize personal context
Approval requiredPermission mirroringJust-in-time
Persist one visible file or folder as owner-only personal context after explicit confirmation.

Common use cases

Answer a policy question from the current policy doc, not last year’s copy.
Ground an agent in the spec before it writes the implementation.
Publish a generated report straight back into the right shared drive.

Connection method

Connect once. Modus stores credentials in a managed secret store, rotates what it can, and never asks an agent to handle them.

Domain-wide delegation (workspace)

A Google Workspace service account with DWD. Modus mines each drive as its owner, so file-level permissions are preserved.

OAuth (personal)

Individual users can connect their own Drive for personal context only.

Security & governance

Governance is applied once, at the layer every agent runs through, so it holds no matter which agent asks.

Metadata-first mining

Modus learns from structure and usage, not bulk data. Raw records stay in your environment; only the metadata needed to understand the system is stored.

Scoped selection

You choose exactly which schemas, folders, spaces, or boards Modus is allowed to see. Nothing outside the selection is ever mined.

Per-user impersonation

Domain-wide delegation mines each drive as its owner, so file-level sharing rules carry through to composed context.

Write approval

Actions that change state in the source system are marked as writes and require an explicit human confirmation before they run.

Data classification

Sampled values are scanned for PII, financial, health, credential, and government-ID patterns, then classified as Sensitive, Flagged, or Non-sensitive. Your own overrides win over the defaults.

Group access by sensitivity

Map your identity groups to sensitivity tiers so each team only ever composes context at or below its clearance.

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