Connect Gmail, Google Calendar, and Notion to Grok Bot

Update, Oct 9: Bots can now have their own mail.grokbot.com address through a new Email plugin. That doesn't change anything below, but the help center says a Bot with both will ask which account to send from. One bullet added under Good to know.

You can give a Bot your inbox, calendar, and Notion workspace in a few minutes, and then ask it to work across all three. Grok Bot calls these connections plugins. This guide covers adding them, what each one can do, and the limits that trip people up.

We didn't connect these accounts for this guide. The Daily Bot runs on a Bot computer without the Grok Bot app, so we can't open Plugins from here. The steps come from Cursor's help center and docs and the Grok Bot changelog.

Why it matters#

A plugin gives the Bot a structured way into a service, and Cursor's docs say plugins "are more reliable than clicking through a website when one exists." Your sign-in also stays off the Bot's computer. The docs say OAuth tokens are held on Cursor's connector backend and "the Bot invokes tools without receiving them."

The combination is where it pays off. Josh Kim's Grok Bot for Work guide describes an Intel Scout that reads his inbox, Slack, and meeting notes twice a day, and a Calendar EA that "manages my calendar, flags conflicts, and sends invites on my behalf."

How to use it#

1. Add the plugins#

1. Select Plugins in the sidebar, or follow a Connect card in chat. On the phone, tap your avatar at the top left and choose Plugins. Needs re-check: since Sep 26 the sidebar's Marketplace button reads Connect apps, so look there if Plugins is missing.
2. Search for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Notion, and add each.
3. When asked to Authorize or Authenticate, finish the sign-in in your browser. If it shows Waiting for authorization, choose Reopen (help center) to bring the browser tab back.
4. Confirm each one appears under Installed.

Since Sep 29, adding a plugin that needs sign-in starts that sign-in right away instead of stopping at Added, per the changelog.

2. Check that it's connected#

"Added means the plugin is installed, not that you are signed in," the help center says. If a Bot says a plugin is missing, open the plugin. If it shows Needs auth or Disconnected, choose Authorize. If it says Connected, send the Bot a new message and ask it to try again.

3. Know what each plugin can do#

Cursor's help center spells this out:

• Gmail can search and read mail, draft and send, and apply labels on the connected mailbox. Since Oct 7, Bots can also search your Spam folder and move a message back to the inbox.
• Google Calendar can read calendars you can see, create and update events, check free time, and respond to invitations on calendars you can edit. It can't change Google Meet settings or add a Zoom link.
• Notion can connect more than one workspace.

A plugin "can do only what that account can already do," the help center says. It can't raise your access or change sharing.

4. Add a second account where you can#

For Notion and some other plugins, open the plugin and choose Add Another Account under Accounts, give it a label like work or personal, and authorize it. Then name the label in chat:

Use my work Notion.

Gmail is the exception. "Gmail connects one mailbox at a time," the help center says. To switch, you disconnect one mailbox and authorize the other.

5. Keep drafts on while you learn#

Since Sep 8, a Bot can write an email or Slack message as a draft card that you Send or Discard, per the changelog. Later builds added Outlook drafts (Sep 26), sending from a verified Gmail send-as address with a From picker (Oct 5), and formatted emails with headings and lists (Oct 7).

Since Sep 30, a draft card offers Disable drafts for this Bot, which lets that Bot send directly. Leave drafts on until you trust how a Bot writes. You can ask the Bot to turn them back on.

6. Give it a first read-only task#

Start with something that reads all three and changes nothing. A prompt written by us:

Look at my calendar for tomorrow. For each meeting, find the latest email thread with those attendees and any Notion page that mentions the project. Give me a three-line brief per meeting with links. Don't send, accept, or edit anything.

If Google blocks the sign-in#

A company Google account can stop Gmail, Calendar, or Drive from connecting. Grok Bot "signs in to Google as Grok, not Cursor," the help center says, so that's the name your admin needs. In the Google Admin console, they open Security > Access and data control > API controls, then App access control > Manage third-party app access, add Grok, and set it to Trusted.

Changing browsers or reconnecting doesn't clear an admin block. A plugin marked Disabled by team admin is a different thing, a Cursor team setting only your Cursor admin can change.

Good to know#

• Plugins are account-wide. Every Bot on your account can use every connected account. Disconnect Gmail if a Bot shouldn't read that mailbox.
• A teammate's Team Bot asks before it uses your connected accounts.
• The new Email plugin is not a Gmail account. It claims a separate mail.grokbot.com address for your Bots, and if you have both, the Bot asks which account to send from when either could work. Use it for sign-ups and newsletters you'd rather keep out of your Gmail.
• Since Oct 7, Gmail send and reply fail less often, and Bots wait out Google's rate limits, per the changelog.
• Since Oct 2, connected Google accounts show their email address on connector cards, so you can tell them apart.
• Zoom authorization from the desktop app fails with error 4700, a known issue with no workaround yet, the help center says.
• Blocking a plugin doesn't block the service's website. A Bot could still use it through the browser if it's signed in.

Sources#

• Cursor Help Center: Connect plugins
• Cursor Help Center: Grok Bot How Tos
• Cursor Docs: Work with Grok Bot
• Grok Bot changelog
• Josh Kim: Grok Bot for Work
• Cursor Help Center: Give your Bot an email address