Useful requests

Use these requests once your chosen folders are imported. Each produces something you can check: source links, saved local context or a preview before a remote change.

Prepare for a project meetingCopy Anchor Link

Use drive CLI to find the latest budget and launch decisions in my imported documents.
Prepare a short meeting brief with open questions and source links.
Check sync status and tell me about skipped sources. Do not change Google files.

Your agent searches the available copy and reads matching documents. Open the links to check the decisions; a brief cannot account for unsupported or unimported files.

Link a document to a person or projectCopy Anchor Link

Use drive CLI to show the people observed on this document and its existing links.
Link it to the stored project and person I select, then show the saved context.
Do not merge people merely because their names match.

Manual links use a reference returned by the same store, not an invented ID:

drive people list DOC_ID --json
drive links add DOC_ID project:PROJECT_ID --kind related-to
drive links add DOC_ID person:PERSON_ID --kind about
drive documents context DOC_ID --json

Drive can link existing records; it does not create projects or tasks. To combine messenger and document records, configure an explicit shared store first. Separate databases do not share IDs. See configuration and organize sources.

Remember a source-backed decisionCopy Anchor Link

Use drive CLI to propose a few reusable facts from this imported document.
Show exact supporting quotes. Let me review them before saving or confirming anything.

With a configured AI provider:

drive memories extract DOC_ID --scope work
drive memories extract DOC_ID --scope work --save

The first command previews; --save stores proposed memories, not confirmed facts. Extraction sends selected cached text to the configured provider. Word/embedding search does not require this external text-generation step. See settings before enabling it.

Use a local MCP clientCopy Anchor Link

For an agent without terminal access, configure a stdio MCP server with executable drive and arguments --read-only mcp. The tool and connected account must be on the computer running it.

drive --read-only mcp --tools --json
drive --read-only mcp

This exposes permitted read tools from the same command tree. It is not a hosted HTTP endpoint for browser connectors. Use the command reference for exact operations.