Claude Code How to use Google Contacts with Claude Code
You want Google Contacts inside Claude Code so it can find the right person before reaching out, create contacts from meeting notes, look up coworkers in the company directory, and recover people Google saved automatically — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.
Create your Google Contacts gateway
The gateway is the thing Claude Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Google Contacts tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.
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Create an Arcade account
Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
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Create an MCP Gateway and select your Google Contacts tools
In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Google Contacts tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
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Copy your gateway URL
Every client below needs it.
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
Connect the gateway to Claude Code
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Add the gateway as a remote HTTP MCP server
claude mcp add arcade --transport http "<YOUR_ARCADE_GATEWAY_URL>"
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Verify it was added
claude mcp get arcade claude mcp list
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Try it out
Open Claude Code in your project and ask it to use one of your Google Contacts tools.
Full Claude Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13
Try these Google Contacts prompts
Claude Code can now act on your Google Contacts account. Click a prompt to copy it.
Use per-user OAuth and limit the agent to searching contacts or the organization directory; require approval before it creates a contact. Pair it with Contextual Access policies to control which actions each agent can take.
