Connect Gmail to ChatGPT
Give ChatGPT governed access to Gmail’s 16 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Gmail to ChatGPT in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in ChatGPT then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Approve Gmail in Runlayer
Add Gmail from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.
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Connect ChatGPT to Runlayer
Admins publish the Runlayer Plugin and its skill to the whole ChatGPT organization. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Gmail’s 16 tools show up in ChatGPT’s own tool list.
ChatGPT setup guide - 3
Sign in to Gmail
Sign in the way Gmail requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Gmail from ChatGPT
Gmail’s approved tools appear in ChatGPT. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
16 Gmail tools in ChatGPT
Runlayer policy decides which of these ChatGPT users can call. 6 read data only.
Add labels
Add one or more labels to a message or multiple messages
Archive messages
Archive one or more messages (remove from inbox)
Create draft
Create a draft email that can be edited later or sent
Create label
Create a new label in the user's Gmail account
Fetch attachment
Fetch a Gmail message attachment.
Fetch message
Fetch the full content of a Gmail message using its message ID (don't use external tools to read messages)
List drafts
List all draft messages with pagination support
List labels
List all available labels in the Gmail account
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in ChatGPT
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what ChatGPT exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Gmail call from ChatGPT passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, ChatGPT as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Compliance API import (available)
OpenAI Compliance Logs Platform imports ChatGPT web chats for review.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for ChatGPT yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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