Claude can now draft, reply to and send Gmail messages, bringing AI assistants closer to handling everyday email tasks.

Claude is becoming more than an AI chatbot, with Anthropic expanding its ability to take actions across connected apps. The latest update brings a more useful Gmail integration, allowing Claude to draft replies and, with user approval, send emails on their behalf.

Claude gets more control over Gmail

The Gmail integration is part of Claude’s Google Workspace connector. Once connected, users can ask Claude to search their inbox, find specific conversations, summarise long email threads and pull information from multiple messages.

The bigger change is that Claude can now go beyond preparing a response. It can reply to emails and send messages from a connected Gmail account. This could make the AI particularly useful for people dealing with a large number of routine emails every day.

For example, users can ask Claude to identify unanswered messages, understand the context from an existing conversation and prepare a suitable response. Instead of manually opening Gmail and composing the message, Claude can handle much of the process through a simple prompt.