Pasting material into chat works, but it means the workspace only knows what you remembered to hand it. Connecting an account closes that gap.
Open Integrations in the workspace.
Connected accounts
Google. Calendar and Drive, so it can see what meetings happened and read the documents attached to the work. Scopes are requested narrowly rather than as a blanket grant.
GitHub. Repositories, issues and pull requests. Useful when the record of a decision lives in a pull request rather than a document.
Telegram. A workspace can have its own bot, so you can talk to it from your phone. Messages land in the same history as anything you say on the web. One bot per workspace, under Settings.
Included with your workspace
Web research, X, company and people lookups. We hold the key, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing to paste.
Each one is a switch. Turning it off takes effect immediately and the agent works around it rather than failing. Every use is metered against your credits and shows in the activity log, so you can see what a piece of research actually cost.
Two things worth knowing
Credentials never reach the workspace. The connection is held on our side and brokered for each request. The agent gets the data, not your tokens, so a workspace that misbehaves cannot walk off with your Google account.
A connection is workspace wide. Everyone who can use the workspace can use what you connected to it. Connect accounts you are comfortable sharing with everyone in it, and see give a group a copy if a group needs its own boundary.
Disconnecting
Same page, disconnect the account. The workspace keeps what it already learned. It just stops being able to read new material from that source.
If you want it to forget what it learned as well, say so in chat.
Not the same as connecting an assistant
This page is about what your workspace can reach. Pointing ChatGPT or Claude at your mail and calendar is the other direction, and it has its own pages: connect an assistant.