Use when the user wants to interact with a public Google Drive — listing, reading, creating, updating, or deleting files and folders.
Handles both read-only access (API key only) and write access (service account or OAuth2).
Covers folder navigation, file upload/download, permissions, MIME types, and error handling.
USE FOR: integrating Google Drive into scripts or applications; reading publicly shared files; CRUD on service-account-owned drives; automating Drive folder structures.
DO NOT USE FOR: Google Workspace Admin tasks; Google Docs/Sheets API-specific operations beyond Drive metadata.
2026-03-19