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How to use Google Drive with Cursor

You want Google Drive inside Cursor so it can organize a scattered project folder, audit who can access sensitive files, prepare and share a project handoff, and retrieve Drive files for analysis — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Google Drive gateway

The gateway is the thing Cursor connects to, and it is where you decide which Google Drive tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

Create an Arcade account

Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.
Create an MCP Gateway and select your Google Drive tools

In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Google Drive tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.
Copy your gateway URL

Every client below needs it.
```
https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>
```

Create a Google Drive gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Heads up

Cursor does not refresh MCP OAuth tokens automatically. For a persistent connection, set Authorization to “Arcade Headers” on the gateway in the dashboard.

Open MCP settings

Command Palette (⌘⇧P / Ctrl+Shift+P) → Open MCP Settings, then click “New MCP Server”.

Add the gateway to mcpServers

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-arcade": {
      "url": "https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>"
    }
  }
}

Try it out

Ask Cursor to use one of your Google Drive tools.

Full Cursor guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Try these Drive prompts

Cursor can now act on your Google Drive account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Use scoped permissions and approvals to control file uploads, sharing, link access, and collaborator removal. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can organize files without changing who can access them.

How to use Google Drive with Cursor

Create your Google Drive gateway

Create an Arcade account

Create an MCP Gateway and select your Google Drive tools

Copy your gateway URL

Connect the gateway to Cursor

Open MCP settings

Add the gateway to mcpServers

Try it out

Try these Drive prompts

Ready to actually ship your agent?