On 2026-10-06 Anthropic put Claude for Google Workspace into public beta on every paid plan. One Marketplace install adds a Claude sidebar to Docs, Sheets and Slides that reads the open file and selection and edits in place, with an 'Ask before edits' approval mode by default and an 'Accept all edits' mode. New Docs/Sheets/Slides connectors (beta) let Claude create and live-edit Google files from chat, scoped to existing Google sharing permissions.
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- ✓Coverage: one install spans 3 apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides) on all 4 paid tiers (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise)
- ✓Sheets: formulas, pivot tables, native charts, new tabs; joins and cleaning run through Python and write back
- ✓Limits: a single long operation stops after ~6 minutes (Google limit); no Firefox; closing the sidebar stops the task
- ✓Enterprise: Compliance API, CMEK and OpenTelemetry audit export apply; third-party inference (Bedrock, Vertex, Azure Foundry, LLM gateways) not supported in this beta
- ✓Benchmarks: Anthropic published no quantitative scores
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Anthropic launched Claude for Google Workspace in public beta on October 6, 2026 for all paid Claude plans. A single Google Workspace Marketplace install adds a Claude sidebar to Docs, Sheets and Slides. Claude reads the open file and current selection and edits in place: in Docs it fixes or restyles text without breaking formatting and proposes larger rewrites as suggestion cards; in Sheets it writes formulas, builds pivot tables, native charts and new tabs, and pulls ranges into Python for joins or cleaning; in Slides it builds slides from the deck's own layouts and themes and flags overlapping or off-slide elements. 'Ask before edits' is the default approval mode; 'Accept all edits' lets it run unattended. The sidebar carries the user's models, connectors and skills, and Enterprise controls (Compliance API, CMEK, OpenTelemetry audit export) apply. Separately, new Docs/Sheets/Slides connectors (beta) let Claude create and live-edit Google files from chat, with access matching existing Google sharing permissions. Known beta limits: long operations stop after about six minutes, Firefox is unsupported, closing the sidebar stops the task, and third-party inference (Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, LLM gateways) is not supported. Anthropic published no quantitative benchmarks.
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