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How to integrate Google Docs MCP with Hermes

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Google Docs account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,500+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Google Docs with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Google Docs

Ask your agent to connect to Google Docs, or simply request any Google Docs-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Google Docs connection.

Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Google Docs or request any Google Docs-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Google Docs MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Google Docs MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Google Docs account. It provides structured and secure access to your documents and their content, so your agent can create, read, edit, format, and export documents on your behalf.

  • Document creation and copying: Have your agent create documents from Markdown, add initial content, or make copies of existing documents.
  • Content reading and editing: Let the agent retrieve plain text, insert new text, replace matching text, update sections with Markdown, or delete selected content.
  • Document structure and formatting: Direct your agent to add headers, footers, footnotes, page breaks, bullets, named ranges, tabs, and page styling.
  • Tables and images: Instruct your agent to create and populate tables, edit their rows and columns, add text or images to cells, and insert or replace inline images.
  • PDF exports: Have your agent export a Google Doc as a PDF when you need a shareable final copy.

Way Forward

With Google Docs connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS & TRIGGERS

Supported Tools and Triggers

Every Google Docs action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Copy Google Document

Tool to create a copy of an existing Google Document.

Create and Populate Table in Google Doc

Creates a table in a Google Document and attempts to populate its cells with the provided text.

Create a document

Creates a new Google Docs document using the provided title as filename and inserts the initial text at the beginning if non-empty, returning the document's ID and metadata (excluding body content).

Create Document Markdown

Creates a new Google Docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as Markdown text.

Create Drive File

Create a metadata-only Google Drive file, folder, or shortcut.

Create Footer

Creates a footer in a Google document for the specified type and optional section.

Create Footnote

Tool to create a new footnote in a Google Document.

Create Header

Creates a header in a Google Document, optionally for a specified section, and can add text.

Create Named Range

Tool to create a new named range in a Google Document.

Create Paragraph Bullets

Tool to add bullets to paragraphs within a specified range in a Google Document.

Create Document Tab

Creates a new tab in a Google Docs document.

Delete Content Range in Document

Tool to delete a range of content from a Google Document.

Delete Footer

Tool to delete a footer from a Google Document.

Delete Header

Deletes a specified header by ID from a Google Document, optionally targeting a document tab.

Delete Named Range

Tool to delete a named range from a Google Document.

Delete Paragraph Bullets

Tool to remove bullets from paragraphs within a specified range in a Google Document.

Delete Tab

Deletes a tab from a Google Document.

Delete Table Column

Tool to delete a column from a table in a Google Document.

Delete Table Row

Tool to delete a row from a table in a Google Document.

Export Google Doc as PDF

Tool to export a Google Docs file as PDF using the Google Drive API.

Get Drive File Metadata

Get selected metadata fields for one Google Drive file by ID.

Get Spreadsheet Values

Read cell values from one range in a Google Sheets spreadsheet.

Get document by id

Retrieves an existing Google Document by its ID; will error if the document is not found.

Get Document End Index

Retrieves the end index and paragraph structure of a Google Document or specific segment.

Get document plain text

Retrieve a Google Doc by ID and return a best-effort plain-text rendering.

Insert Image in Table Cell

Inserts an image from a URI at a position in a Google Document table cell identified by table start index, row and column.

Insert Inline Image

Tool to insert an image from a given URI at a specified location in a Google Document as an inline image.

Insert Page Break

Tool to insert a page break into a Google Document.

Insert Table in Google Doc

Tool to insert a table into a Google Document.

Insert Table Column

Tool to insert a new column into a table in a Google Document.

Insert Table Row

Inserts a new row into a table in a Google Document at a specified location.

Insert Text into Document

Tool to insert a string of text at a specified location within a Google Document.

Insert Text in Table Cell

Insert text into a Google Docs table using the table's start index and zero-based row and column positions.

List Drive Item Permissions

List permissions for a Google Drive file, folder, or shared drive.

Get Charts from Spreadsheet

Tool to retrieve a list of all charts from a specified Google Sheets spreadsheet.

Replace All Text in Document

Replaces occurrences of text in a Google Document, either across the document or in selected tabs.

Replace Image in Document

Tool to replace a specific image in a document with a new image from a URI.

Search Documents

Search for Google Documents using various filters including name, content, date ranges, and more.

Unmerge Table Cells

Tool to unmerge previously merged cells in a table.

Update Document Markdown

Replaces the body content of a Google Docs tab with rendered Markdown; requires edit permissions.

Update Document Section Markdown

Insert or replace a section of a Google Docs document with rendered Markdown, using start and optional end indices, or append when no start index is provided.

Update Document Style

Tool to update the overall document style, such as page size, margins, and default text direction.

Update existing document

Applies a batch of edits to a specified Google Doc, such as inserting, deleting, or formatting text.

Update Table Row Style

Updates the style of selected rows in a Google Document table, including minimum row height and overflow prevention.

Update Tab Properties

Updates properties of a document tab such as title, parent tab, index, and icon emoji.

Upload Drive File

Upload a file of 5 MiB or less to Google Drive using multipart upload.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Google Docs MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Google Docs tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Google Docs and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Google Docs tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Google Docs scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Google Docs data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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