Install the Glue extension, then restart Claude Desktop. Glue keeps running in the background and answers Claude's questions from your local index.

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Connect an account under Gmail accounts below. Ingestion is read-only — glue reads your mail into the local index and never writes to it without your click.

1. Ask Claude Desktop something like “what needs a reply today?”
2. It calls glue's tools over MCP — every call is listed under Activity on Home.
3. For a send or trash, Claude stages it — review it on Home and commit. Nothing leaves without that click.

Explicit links, entity edges and semantic neighbours across the whole index. A diagnostic view — it shows that structure exists rather than answering a question, which is why People groups by organisation instead.

Everything is reachable without the mouse. These work when a list has focus and you are not typing in a field.

⌘K

Search everything

j k

Move down / up a list

↵

Open the selected item

e

Archive the open email

u

Mark the open email read or unread

esc

Close search or a dialog

Register one Desktop app OAuth client in Google Cloud (shared across accounts), paste its client ID + secret, then add accounts. Mail ingestion is read-only; sends/trashes are always staged.

Connecting an account grants Gmail, Calendar, Drive (app files only) and Sheets. New scopes need a fresh consent — re-add an existing account to update its permissions.

Connect a user-managed Zoom OAuth app (only the meeting:write:meeting scope) so glue can create a Zoom meeting for an event. The join link is added to the event and sent to guests through your connected Google account. Register the redirect http://localhost:8723/ in your Zoom app.

Markdown source of truth + downloaded attachments — accessible to Claude Desktop's filesystem.

One-off, button-triggered assists inside glue — like ✨ Make task on an email — run on the local model (—). No API key, no account, no network: they keep working offline. Bulk work stays on the Claude Desktop + MCP path, where Claude supervises.

What Claude can actually see. A chunk with no vector is invisible to semantic search.

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