Google Drive
Bring files in from Google Drive, once or as the folder changes.
Connect Google Drive to a and its AI can read the spreadsheets, documents, images and map files you choose, bring them into , and keep them in step as the folder changes.
Your 's AI prepares the connection; you finish it by signing in with Google.
Before you start
- A project. The connection is made in one project, and its Studio's AI does the work. See Create a project.
- A Google account that can open the files you want to bring in. If the files are shared with you, your own account is enough.
- The project's internet access must not be Off. Only allowed still reaches its connections.
Connect it
Open Google Drive
Go to Connectors, search for Google Drive and open it.
Send the request to a project's AI
Under Connect it with your Studio's AI, choose the Project that should use Google Drive. What the AI is asked starts as "Connect Google Drive to this project so it can read files from the folders you choose." Edit it to say exactly what you want, for example: "Read the CSV files in the Sales/2026 folder and load them into a table called sales". Then select Send to AI.
The AI starts at once if the Studio is open, or when it next opens. Select Open Studio to go there.
Finish the connection
The AI drafts the connection and never asks for a key in the chat. The draft shows as Waiting for you. Select Connect to open the Connect Google Drive dialog.
Choose Sign in with Google. The dialog shows the only site this sign-in is used with. Sign in with the Google account that can see the files and approve the access Google asks for. The connection then shows Signed in as your account.
Google's file picker then opens. Pick the spreadsheets and documents the AI may open (several at once is fine). The AI reaches only these and files it creates itself.
Choose what the AI may do
Under What the AI may do with it, choose Can read (nothing there changes) or Can read and change (the AI may also add, change and remove things). Then select Connect.
Test it and tell the AI
The dialog says Google Drive is connected. Select Test it, then Tell the AI so it carries on.
You can also start inside a project: in Settings, Keys, describe it in What do you want to connect? and select Ask AI to connect.
What you get
Ask the AI for what you need:
- Load once. "Load the spreadsheet into a table called
budget." The rows land in a Nexus table you can query in the DataSQL editor and use in apps. - Keep in step. "Check the folder every morning and add new files to the
salestable." The AI can build an that does this on a schedule. See What agents do. - Use in an app. An app in the project can list and open the picked files while it runs.
Tables made from Drive files are ordinary Nexus : they keep their history, and you control who sees them in Data access.
Test, pause and reconnect
A project's connections are listed in its Settings, under Keys, with their status.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Waiting for you | Drafted by the AI. Select Connect to finish it. |
| Works | Connected and usable by the project. |
| Needs reconnecting | The key or sign-in stopped working. Select Reconnect. |
| Paused | Nobody can use it until you select Resume. |
From the same row: Test, Pause, Turn off here (this project stops using it) or Remove (deletes the key, and every Studio using it stops reaching Google Drive).
A connection belongs to the project it was made in. Owners and admins see all of them under Your connections on Connectors. It stays off for other projects until an admin switches it on under Projects that may use it.
If the test fails
Test reports one of these:
- It works: the project reached the service.
- The key was rejected: select Reconnect and enter a new one.
- The service cannot be reached: check that it is up and accepts outside connections, then test again.
- Internet is off: the project's internet is Off. Turn it on in its Settings. With Only allowed, the Studio reaches only its connections and the sites you add.
- It is not connected yet: select Connect.
Specific to Google:
- Limited: permissions were not granted. Some actions will fail. Select Reconnect and approve everything the job needs.
- Was signed in as an account. Sign in again to keep using it. A password change or an expired grant ended it. Select Reconnect.
- Signed in. Picking files is not set up here yet, so the AI can only reach files it creates. The file picker is not available in this place. The connection works, but the AI cannot open your existing files. Upload them instead with Add data.
Use your own sign-in app
If your organization only allows sign-ins through its own registered app, choose Use your own app instead in the connect dialog. Register an app with the provider, add the Return address for your app Klarety shows, then paste its Client id and Client secret and select Save your app. The secret is sealed and never shown again.
Where your key goes
The key or sign-in is encrypted with a managed key service the moment you select Connect, and not even the AI can read it. The Studio never holds the key. If the one site it is sent to is not the service's own address, Klarety warns you and asks you to type the site to confirm.