Each entry answers one question: what can you ask for now that you could not
ask for before.
v0.9.0
Mail that comes from the right address
A work mailbox rarely has one address. You answer support as one, sign
contracts as another, and the domain you bought sits over the top of a Gmail
account that still thinks of itself by its original name. Claude could write
any of those messages, but every one of them left under the same address, so
anything that had to come from contracts@ or support@ was a message you
finished by hand.
Now you say which one, in the same sentence as the rest of the request. Ask
Claude to reply as your support address and it does, under that address’s own
name, in the thread it belongs to.
Claude is told which addresses your accounts own, so you can name one and it
will use it, or leave it out and get the address you normally send from.
Accounts with a single address are unaffected.
Each message goes out under the name Gmail has for that address, which is often
the same name on all of them until you change it. If two addresses arrive
looking identical, that is why.
Turning on every service at once
Adding an account meant ticking Gmail, then Calendar, then Drive, then the
rest, one at a time, and doing it again for the next account. Select all
does the lot, and turns them all back off again if you would rather start from
nothing.
v0.8.0
Sending without the round trip
Sending used to mean writing a draft, then asking for it to be sent. Reasonable
when you want to read it first, tedious when you already know what you want
said and just want it gone.
You can now ask for both at once. The two-step way is still there for anything
you would rather look at before it leaves.
Check what your Claude connector is allowed to do without asking you.Sending is now labelled the way it should be: something that changes the world
and cannot be taken back. Claude sorts tools by those labels, so the send
tools now sit with the rest of your write access rather than by themselves. If
you have told Claude it may use write tools without checking, that now
includes sending mail.In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then this hub. You can set each
tool on its own.
v0.7.0
Claude could not send mail at all
Google’s Gmail tools stop at the drafts folder. Claude could read, search,
label and compose, and then the message sat there waiting for you to open Gmail
and press send. For anything routine, that last step was most of the work.
The hub closes that gap itself, so Claude can finish the job.
Sending stays off until you turn it on, per account. Open the account in
the hub’s admin screen and allow it under Sending. It takes effect
immediately.Nothing is granted behind your back: Google already trusted the hub with this
when you connected the account, and the switch is about whether Claude may
act on it. There is a way to keep that decision away from anyone who can log
into the admin screen. Ask us if you want it.
Before this
Earlier versions were about connecting accounts and keeping them connected.
Nothing in them changed what you could ask for.