Claude AI Assistant Arrives in Google Workspace as Public Beta

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Anthropic on October 6, 2026 announced that Claude for Google Workspace is in public beta on all paid Claude plans, adding Claude to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides so users can work with the assistant directly inside their open files. The company also released new Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors, also in beta, that Claude uses to create and edit Google files from the Claude chat.

With the add-on installed, Claude opens in a sidebar next to the file. Anthropic says it can read the open doc, sheet, or deck, see which text, cells, or slides the user has selected, and make changes directly in the file. One installation covers all three apps.

In Docs, Anthropic says Claude can fix a sentence or restyle a heading in place without touching the surrounding formatting, while larger rewrites appear as suggestion cards in the sidebar, each highlighting the passage it would change so the user can apply or dismiss it. In Sheets, Claude can write formulas, build pivot tables and native Sheets charts, add new tabs, and pull a range into Python for joins or data cleaning before writing the results back into the sheet.

In Slides, Claude can build new slides from the deck’s existing layouts and themes, then flag elements that overlap, run off the slide, or are hard to read.

The Google Workspace Marketplace listing for the add-on describes additional uses: redlining a contract with each proposed change shown for acceptance or rejection, building a spreadsheet model from a plain-language description, cleaning data with duplicates, mismatched formats, and stray spaces, and drafting a full deck from an outline or a few notes.

Users control how much Claude does on its own. In the default “Ask before edits” mode, each change appears as an approval card with a plain-language summary and Claude waits for approval; in “Accept all edits” mode, Claude applies ordinary content edits without stopping. Regardless of mode, Claude pauses with a “Security review” label before inserting an image from a web address, adding a link, or removing anyone’s access, with no option to always allow those actions.