One Gmail connection. More ways to get work done.
Give your AI assistants a shared way to work with your business email. Connect Google Workspace to WordPress once, then let authorised MCP-compatible assistants find messages, read conversations and send replies through that same connection. Choose the assistant that suits the task without rebuilding your Gmail integration.
Turn an email search into a useful answer
“Find the supplier’s latest message about order EX-104 and tell me what delivery date they promised.” An assistant can search the mailbox and read the exchange itself. Ask it to summarise the commitments or prepare a follow-up, without gathering the emails and pasting them into chat first.
Another authorised assistant can retrieve that same conversation and help with the next step. The shared resource is the Gmail mailbox and its operations. The plugin does not transfer private chat history or coordinate work between assistants. When you ask one to send a reply, it uses the original Gmail thread.
The conversation stays in Gmail, where each authorised assistant can retrieve its context.
From a customer question to a finished reply
Ask an assistant to collect the relevant messages, explain what the customer needs and prepare a response. Review the result, then have it send the answer and organise the handled message. The plugin supplies the mailbox tools; your assistant carries out the task.
Find what matters
“Find the latest messages from this customer and summarise the unanswered questions.” Search and thread reading give the assistant the source material. Reading preserves unread state unless marking it read is requested.
Prepare the next step
“Draft a reply that addresses each question.” Review the text and recipients in your assistant. You can use another authorised assistant for a second opinion by asking it to retrieve the same Gmail conversation.
Send and keep track
After approval, ask the assistant to send the reply, add an agreed label or archive the reviewed message. These functions act immediately when called. The plugin has no separate approval screen, draft queue or background scheduler.
One connection for the assistants you use
WordPress hosts the Gmail integration and exposes its operations through MCP. Each compatible assistant needs its own authorised access to that WordPress connection. The Google service account configuration stays in one place, and all callers work with the same configured mailbox.
Use the assistant that fits the job
Use one assistant to research a long exchange, another to help write a clear response, or the assistant already working on your website to look up a customer email. They can use the same 15 Gmail operations: search, read threads, retrieve attachments, send replies and manage labels.
Keep the connection when your tools change
Add a compatible assistant without building another Gmail integration for it. The plugin also provides one separate WordPress mail function using the site’s mail transport. Gmail attachment retrieval returns base64 data with a limit of up to 20 MB; it does not save files to WordPress.
Who gets the most from this?
Teams using several AI assistants, or already working with WordPress MCP, gain a common place to make mailbox tools available. If one assistant’s existing Gmail connection covers all your needs, this extra integration may add little. The plugin provides access to email; it is not a new chat application.
You need Google Workspace, an enabled Gmail API and a service account with domain-wide delegation authorised by a Workspace super administrator. Configure one Workspace user to impersonate. Personal Gmail accounts are not supported.
On the WordPress side, use WordPress 6.9+, PHP 8.0+ with OpenSSL, the Abilities API, MCP Adapter and MCP Expose Abilities. Every operation requires the manage_options permission. The service account credentials are stored in WordPress options.
Start with the Google delegation guide. Configure the service account’s raw JSON, grant the required Gmail scopes and check the connection before searching the mailbox. This add-on covers Gmail, not Drive, Calendar or Docs.
Make Gmail available to your AI assistants
Set up the shared connection and try a real task: find the customer’s last question, summarise the conversation and prepare the reply. Start with the assistant you already use, then give other compatible assistants access when useful.