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Connect Google Docs to GitHub Copilot

Give GitHub Copilot governed access to Google Docs’s 21 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Google Docs to GitHub Copilot in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in GitHub Copilot then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Approve Google Docs in Runlayer

    Add Google Docs from the catalog and choose who can use it and which of its tools are allowed.

  2. 2

    Connect GitHub Copilot to Runlayer

    GitHub Copilot gets connector tools through the Runlayer Plugin, and reaches Google Docs’s 21 tools through the plugin’s search and execute tools.

    GitHub Copilot setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Google Docs

    Sign in the way Google Docs requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Google Docs from GitHub Copilot

    Google Docs’s approved tools appear in GitHub Copilot. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

21 Google Docs tools in GitHub Copilot

Runlayer policy decides which of these GitHub Copilot users can call. 7 read data only and 5 can change or delete data.

  • Add comment

    Add a comment to a specific text range in a Google Docs document.

  • Apply doc updates

    Apply an ordered batch of raw Google Docs API Request objects to a document via documents.batchUpdate.

  • Create file

    Markdown (recommended, default path): uploaded as text/markdown and converted by Google Drive's native markdown importer (headers, bold, italic, lists, tables, blockquotes, fenced code blocks, links,…

  • Delete between text

    Delete a whole block of a document — a heading and everything beneath it, tables included — by naming the text at each end instead of computing character indices.

  • Delete text

    Delete all occurrences of specific text from a Google Docs document.

  • Edit table

    Structurally edit an existing table in a Google Doc: insert/delete rows and columns, set a column width, style a cell (background color, vertical alignment, padding), replace a cell's text, or…

  • Fetch

    Fetch the content of a Google Docs document using its document ID.

  • Fetch all tabs

    Fetch content from all tabs in a Google Docs document.

See all 21 Google Docs tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in GitHub Copilot

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what GitHub Copilot exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Google Docs call from GitHub Copilot passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, GitHub Copilot as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Native enforcement adapter (not available)

    Runlayer has no device-side adapter for GitHub Copilot yet, so control happens at the gateway.

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