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Add a Google Drive MCP tab alongside Google Drive API on the Google Drive setup page#422

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Add a Google Drive MCP tab alongside Google Drive API on the Google Drive setup page#422
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Summary

Google publishes its own hosted Drive MCP server (drivemcp.googleapis.com) in addition to the REST API C1 already wraps as an MCP server. This adds a second tab to the Google Drive setup page so admins can tell the two apart and set up either one:

  • Google Drive MCP (default tab) — connects to Google's own hosted Drive MCP server. Authentication is per-user OAuth via a Google Cloud OAuth client you create — Google doesn't support dynamic client registration for this server, so there's no bearer token or API key fallback. Setup additionally requires enabling the Drive MCP API in the same Google Cloud project. Listed as plain Google Drive in the MCP server catalog.
  • Google Drive API (existing content, lightly reorganized) — C1's own MCP server that translates the Google Drive REST API into tools, supporting per-user OAuth or a service account with domain-wide delegation. Listed as Google Drive API in the catalog.

A comparison table above the tabs explains the difference up front (who hosts the server, authentication, access scoping, tool surface, setup effort), and the intro/recommendation prose is explicit about which catalog entry ("Google Drive" vs "Google Drive API") each option maps to. The existing REST/API tab content is otherwise unchanged — its UI labels already matched the current product wording.

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  • Verified all external reference links (developers.google.com/workspace/drive pages, support.google.com pages, docs.cloud.google.com, knowledge.workspace.google.com) resolve live
  • Verified internal doc links/anchors (/product/admin/mcp-servers#..., /product/admin/mcp-server/google-cloud-project-setup, /product/admin/enable-ai-access-management#..., etc.) exist on main
  • Checked MDX component tags (Tabs/Tab/Steps/Step/Note) are balanced
  • Confirmed the current product UI label set (Client credentials, JWT Bearer (RFC 7523), OAuth2 — per-user passthrough, OAuth2 — service mode) and confirmed this page already used the corrected labels

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Documents the native, Google-hosted Drive MCP server (drivemcp.googleapis.com)
as a second tab, matching the Notion two-way pattern: per-user OAuth via a
Google Cloud OAuth client (no dynamic client registration), the Drive MCP
API enablement step, and Google's fixed MCP tool set.

Co-authored-by: c1-squire-dev[bot] <c1-squire-dev[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Superseded by #427 — combining all the native-MCP-tab PRs into a single PR per request.

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