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Connect Gmail to Perplexity

Give Perplexity governed access to Gmail’s 16 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Gmail to Perplexity in four steps

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

  1. 1

    Approve Gmail in Runlayer

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

  2. 2

    Connect Perplexity to Runlayer

    Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Perplexity by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Perplexity reaches Gmail’s 16 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.

    Perplexity setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Gmail

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

  4. 4

    Use Gmail from Perplexity

    Gmail’s approved tools appear in Perplexity. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

16 Gmail tools in Perplexity

Runlayer policy decides which of these Perplexity 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

See all 16 Gmail tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Perplexity

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

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Gmail call from Perplexity passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

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

  • 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 Perplexity yet, so control happens at the gateway.

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