Anthropic’s Claude has been employed in Google Workspace for over a year, but now it’s taken on more responsibilities, with the ability to send out messages from Gmail without a person having to read them.

The latest update for paid users lets Claude draft, reply to, or forward emails, and you get to choose whether or not it needs approval before actually sending.

On a support page, Anthropic says, “By default, Claude asks for your approval before each of these actions. On Team and Enterprise plans, owners decide whether members can allow these actions to run without asking each time.”

Also included in this update is improved file management in Google Drive that operates much the way Gmail does when it comes to Claude’s independence. Claude can now share, move, and trash files in Google Drive.

Anthropic says, “By default, Claude asks for your approval before each of these actions. On Team and Enterprise plans, owners decide whether members can allow these actions to run without asking each time.”

To opt out of these features, individual users can disable them from the chat interface and for organizations, owners and primary owners can disable them in Organization settings > Connectors.

Not without limitations

Anthropic issues some caveats for this update.

In Gmail, Anthropic says that performance may vary for large mailboxes. Claude also can’t access attachments in emails. And advanced Gmail filters might not be supported.

When it comes to file management, Claude can only take text from Google Drive files; it cannot process images, comments, or suggestions embedded within.