Grok Connectors: Every Integration and What It Does
A Grok connector links one of your accounts to Grok so it can search, read, and in most cases write in that app during a conversation. xAI (now branded SpaceXAI, though the legal entity is still X.AI LLC) shipped them on May 6, 2026, and they now come in three kinds: seven built-in connectors maintained in-house, a catalog of pre-configured OAuth apps, and bring-your-own MCP for anything else.
This page is the running list, with the permission scopes each one actually requests, because that’s the part that determines what Grok can do to your data rather than what the marketing page says it can do.
The seven built-in connectors
These are maintained by xAI, authenticate over OAuth, and need no configuration past the initial sign-in. You add them at grok.com/connectors → New Connector.
| Connector | What it reaches | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Gmail & Google Calendar | Gmail messages and Google Calendar events | All |
| Google Drive | Drive files, Docs, Sheets, and Slides | All |
| Outlook Mail & Calendar | Outlook email and calendar events | All |
| OneDrive | Your own OneDrive, browse and upload | Business and Enterprise only |
| SharePoint | SharePoint sites and document libraries | Business and Enterprise only |
| Microsoft Teams | Teams messages, channels, and chats | All |
| Salesforce | CRM objects, query records, create and update | All |
Gmail and Google Calendar are two separate connectors with separate sign-ins, and so are Outlook Mail and Outlook Calendar. Connecting mail does not connect the calendar.
Two of those rows carry a plan gate rather than just a provisioning step, and xAI’s own pages disagree about it. The connector index says connectors are available to all Grok users, while the OneDrive and SharePoint pages each open by stating they are available on Grok Business and Enterprise plans only. No other connector page carries that banner. Treat the per-connector page as the operative one, and expect a personal account to find both missing. OneDrive also needs an Azure AD tenant ID and a one-time Microsoft 365 admin consent at setup, so “personal” there means your own drive rather than a consumer Microsoft account.
The permission gap nobody mentions
The two mail connectors are not equivalent, and the difference is in the scopes.
Outlook Mail requests Mail.ReadWrite and Mail.Send at sign-in. Both. That means the moment you click Accept, Grok can compose, reply-all, forward, and send from your mailbox, plus move messages between folders, create folders, and run batch operations. Its calendar counterpart takes Calendars.ReadWrite, so it creates and updates events with attendees and recurrence, and RSVPs on your behalf.
Gmail uses a tiered model instead. The base connection is gmail.readonly: search and read, nothing else. gmail.modify (drafts, labels, trash) and gmail.send are requested only when those tool groups are enabled, which on a workspace account means an administrator turns them on. Google Calendar works the same way: calendar.readonly is the floor, and calendar.events arrives only when write tools are switched on.
So the honest summary is that Grok’s Outlook connector is full read-write-send from day one, and its Gmail connector starts read-only. If you evaluated Grok on a Google account and concluded it couldn’t act on mail, you tested the conservative half.
One more Outlook caveat: the documented flow says sign in with a Microsoft work or school account, and some tenants require an Azure AD admin to consent to the xAI Grok application under Enterprise applications before anyone can connect at all.
The connector catalog
Beyond the built-in seven, Grok ships a catalog of pre-configured OAuth connectors that need no setup past signing in. The ones xAI calls out:
- Box: files, folders, and content
- GitHub: repositories, issues, pull requests, code
- Linear: issues, projects, roadmaps
- Notion: pages, databases, workspaces
- Canva: designs, presentations, visual assets
- Gamma: presentations and documents
- Vercel: projects, deployments, logs
- S&P Global: financial data and company intelligence
- Meltwater: news, social posts, live metrics and sentiment (requires an active Meltwater subscription)
The full catalog lives at grok.com/connectors and it’s larger than this list — these are the ones documented by name.
Custom MCP: everything else
For anything not in the catalog, Grok accepts your own Model Context Protocol server. Grok discovers whatever tools the server exposes and treats them like any built-in connector.
The fastest way to see this working is to point it at a server someone else already hosts. Carly runs one:
- Go to grok.com/connectors
- Click New Connector, then select Custom
- Enter the MCP server URL:
https://carlyassistant.com/mcp/
Authenticate once and Grok can check your calendar, search mail across Gmail and Outlook in the same question, draft and send replies, create booking pages, and run your Carly workflows without leaving the chat window.
Some everyday work apps have neither a Grok connector nor an official server of their own to paste in, and for those this is the only way in. Setup guides: Google Tasks · Google Contacts · Microsoft To Do · Microsoft Planner · Keap · Capsule CRM · Follow Up Boss · JobNimbus · FreshBooks · BambooHR.
This is the consumer side of MCP. If you’re building rather than connecting, the Grok API has its own remote-MCP support alongside function calling and server-side tools, a different surface with different rules.
The constraint on a server you run yourself is network reachability: it has to be on the public internet. Running it locally means putting a tunnel in front of it, which is fine for a personal setup and a real operational commitment for anything you depend on. A hosted server skips that problem entirely.
This is the same architectural bet ChatGPT made and Claude made before it. All three converged on MCP rather than inventing a proprietary integration format, which is genuinely good news: an MCP server you build once works across all of them.
What connectors do and don’t do on their own
Grok’s docs are precise about the model: connectors let Grok reach your data within a conversation, “in real time when you ask a question.” Once connected, Grok pulls from a connector automatically whenever your question relates to that service. Nothing is stored on xAI servers afterward, and none of it trains models.
What that phrasing means in practice is that a connector never initiates anything. Your Salesforce connector does not notice that a deal moved. Your Teams connector does not notice that someone tagged you. They answer when asked.
The one exception arrived on July 16, 2026 with Automations.
Grok's Automations run on a schedule for everyone, and on SuperGrok they also fire when an incoming email matches a sender, recipient, or subject filter. That is the whole trigger vocabulary: a clock, or an email. Nothing starts because a deal moved, a form came in, or a file landed. Carly watches all three, across the thousands of apps it connects to.
That’s the shape to hold in your head: Grok reaches a lot of apps, and watches exactly one.
Grok Bot, the separate desktop and iOS app launched on August 11, 2026, handles this differently again. Its connectors show up as Plugins rather than on grok.com/connectors, they are account-wide across every Bot you create, and its routines can start on an event coming from a Cursor account integration, with a Slack message and a GitHub notification as the documented examples.
Plans and admin control
Most built-in and catalog connectors are available to all Grok users, with OneDrive and SharePoint the two exceptions: their documentation pages state they are available on Grok Business and Enterprise plans only. On Grok Business and Enterprise, a team admin also has to provision a connector in the cloud console before anyone in the organization can use it, which needs Team Read-Write permission. So if a connector you expect isn’t listed, the gap is usually provisioning, unless it is OneDrive or SharePoint, where it may be the plan.
Automations split differently: scheduled runs are open to everyone, and email triggers are a SuperGrok feature.
Where event-driven work lives instead
If what you actually want is “when this happens in one of my apps, do that” across more than a mailbox, the connector model is not the tool, on any of these assistants. That’s a different product shape: something that watches many systems and acts without being asked.
Carly is built around that trigger. You give an agent its own name and email address and talk to it like a colleague, and it fires on events across 200+ integrations (a new CRM record, an inbound form, a calendar change, a file landing in Drive), not just on a schedule or an inbox match. Anything with a public API that isn’t native connects with your own key. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month.
The two aren’t really competing for the same slot. Grok’s connectors make a chat window smarter about your data. Trigger-driven agents do work while the chat window is closed.
FAQ
Are Grok connectors free?
Most of them are, on every consumer tier. Two are not: the OneDrive and SharePoint pages both state they are available on Grok Business and Enterprise plans only. Beyond that the paid line falls elsewhere: email-triggered automations require SuperGrok, and Business and Enterprise seats need an admin to provision each connector first.
Can Grok send email?
Through the Outlook connector, yes: Mail.Send is part of the base permission set. Through Gmail, only if send tools have been enabled on the connection, since the base Gmail scope is read-only.
Does Grok store my email and files?
xAI states that conversations using the mail, calendar, and storage connectors do not result in that data being stored on its servers, and that your data is not used for model training. Access is delegated to the signed-in user, so Grok reaches your mailbox and no one else’s.
What’s the difference between a connector and an add-in?
A connector links an account to Grok on grok.com. An add-in puts Grok inside a desktop app: Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and Outlook. The add-ins can call your connectors, so a Word document can draft from a SharePoint file.
How do I disconnect?
At grok.com/connectors, find the connector and click Disconnect and access is revoked immediately. For Microsoft accounts you can also revoke from myapps.microsoft.com.
Ready to automate your busywork?
Carly schedules, researches, and briefs you—so you can focus on what matters.
See what people say
"Before Carly, I relied on a Calendly link, but the whole process felt impersonal and not very professional. Carly changed that by handling all the back-and-forth, so I'm no longer stuck in endless email threads trying to line up schedules.
Now Carly reaches out to candidates, shares my real-time availability, lets them pick a slot, then sends a Zoom link and drops it straight into my calendar. She sends reminders to both of us before each call, which has significantly reduced no-shows and last-minute confusion.
On top of scheduling, Carly acts like a full executive assistant, sending me my schedule the night before so I can prepare for each call. It reminds me of the old x.ai assistant, but Carly is noticeably smarter, faster, and better suited to my healthcare recruitment business."
