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The Google Drive integration lets you share files from your Drive with Lane in any chat. Use it when the context you need lives in a Doc or PDF rather than in Lane — sales call transcripts, customer research, strategy memos, competitive notes, anything one-off. Files stay in Drive. Lane reads them on demand and never copies, modifies, or stores them.

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Overview

Common use cases:
  • “Summarize the three sales calls from last week and pull out product requests.”
  • “What are the recurring objections in these transcripts?”
  • “Compare the two research reports — where do they disagree?”
  • “Pull the key claims from this strategy doc into a Plan.”
Lane reads the shared files for that conversation and can quote, summarize, and cross-reference them like any other context.

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Connect

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations → Google Drive.
  2. Click Connect — Lane redirects you to Google’s OAuth consent screen.
  3. Authorize Lane and return to the integration page.
The page shows “Connected as [your-email]” once linked.

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Permissions requested

Lane asks for two Google scopes:
  • drive.file — access is granted per file, only at the moment you pick that file via Google’s picker. Lane never has blanket Drive access.
  • userinfo.email — to identify the connected Google account.
Google’s consent screen says “See, edit, create, and delete the Google Drive files that you use with this app” because Google standardizes that scope text. Lane only reads — it never writes, edits, or deletes Drive content.

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Using the integration

To share files with Lane:
  1. Open any chat.
  2. Attach files via the Google Drive picker.
  3. Pick up to 3 files per message.
  4. Ask your question — Lane reads them as context.
You can change which files are attached on each turn — Lane uses the files attached to the current message.

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Supported file types

Microsoft Office formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx), images, audio, and video aren’t supported. They’re filtered out at the picker stage.

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Limits

  • 3 files per message — Lane reads at most three Drive files in a single turn.
  • Per-file cap: ~50K tokens (about 200,000 characters). Larger files are truncated to fit.
  • Total budget: ~200K tokens across the three files combined. If the total is exceeded, later files return as [content omitted — reference budget exceeded].
For longer documents, split into smaller files or paste the relevant section directly into the chat.

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Disconnecting

Two ways:
  • From Lane — Settings → Integrations → Google Drive → Disconnect.
  • From Google — Google Account → Security → Third-party apps with account access → remove Lane.
Disconnecting removes the stored token. No content was ever copied into Lane, so there’s nothing else to clean up.

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FAQs

Q: Does Lane store my Drive files?
A: No. Files are fetched on demand, cached briefly during a chat for performance, and discarded. Q: Can Lane edit or delete files in Drive?
A: No. The integration is read-only despite Google’s standard scope wording. Q: What happens if I delete a file after sharing it?
A: Lane reports it couldn’t fetch the file. Nothing in Lane breaks. Q: Can I share more than 3 files in a conversation?
A: Not in a single turn. You can swap files between turns — share one set for the first question, a different set for the next. Q: Why doesn’t my .docx file work?
A: Lane supports Google’s native formats plus PDF, plain text, and CSV. Convert Office files to PDF or Google Docs first. Q: Who can see the files I share with Lane?
A: Only people in the same chat or Plan. Lane doesn’t expose Drive files more broadly than they already are in your workspace.