Google Contacts MCP server

Connect Google Contacts to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the Google Contacts MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the list contact groups tool in Google Contacts
  • Use the update contact tool in Google Contacts
  • Use the search other contacts tool in Google Contacts
  • Use the copy other contact to my contacts tool in Google Contacts
  • Use the create contact tool in Google Contacts
  • Use the list other contacts tool in Google Contacts

How teams use Google Contacts with agents

Google Contacts holds the people your team emails and calls. An agent can look someone up, keep details current and organise contacts into groups, and in Workspace it can search the company directory too.

Look someone up

Find a contact by name, email or phone before drafting an email or scheduling a call.

Keep details current

Update a job title, company or phone number after a call or an email signature change.

Directory search

Search the Workspace directory for a colleague’s email or department.

Contact groups

Group contacts for an event or a customer account and manage membership.

Tools to start with

  • Search Contacts: Prefix search over names, emails and phones.
  • Search Directory: Workspace directory lookups.
  • Batch Modify Contacts: Updates many contacts at once.

Sign-in and permissions

Contacts offers Google OAuth and an API key. Reading or editing a person's contacts needs OAuth on that person's account; an API key only reaches public data.

Sign-in options on Metorial: API Key, Google OAuth.

Supported Tools

list_contact_groups

List Contact Groups

Lists all contact groups (labels) owned by the authenticated user, including both user-defined and system groups (like "My Contacts" and "Starred").

update_contact

Update Contact

Updates an existing contact's data. You must provide the contact's resource name and etag (obtained from a previous get/list/search). Only the fields you include will be updated; omitted fields remain unchanged.

search_other_contacts

Search Other Contacts

Searches "Other contacts" by name, email, or phone number using prefix matching. Other contacts are automatically saved by Google from interactions and are read-only. Sends a cache warmup request before querying; very recent interactions may take a moment to appear. Returns at most 30 results with no pagination. Requires the `contacts.other.readonly` scope.

copy_other_contact

Copy Other Contact to My Contacts

Copies an "Other contact" to the user's "My Contacts" group, making it a regular editable contact. Requires both the `contacts.other.readonly` and `contacts` scopes.

create_contact

Create Contact

Creates a new contact in the authenticated user's Google Contacts. Provide any combination of names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, organizations, and other contact fields.

list_other_contacts

List Other Contacts

Lists contacts automatically saved in "Other contacts" by Google from interactions. These are read-only and only include names, email addresses, and phone numbers. Requires the `contacts.other.readonly` scope.

get_contact

Get Contact

Retrieves detailed information about a specific contact by their resource name. Use `people/me` to get the authenticated user's profile. Returns all available contact fields.

modify_group_members

Modify Group Members

Add or remove contacts from a contact group. You can add contacts to `contactGroups/myContacts` and `contactGroups/starred`, and to any user-defined group. Provide contact resource names to add and/or remove in a single operation.

get_contact_group

Get Contact Group

Retrieves details about a specific contact group including its name, type, member count, and member resource names. Use this to inspect group membership.

create_contact_group

Create Contact Group

Creates a new contact group (label) for the authenticated user. Group names must be unique among the user's contact groups. Optionally attach client-specific key-value data.

search_directory

Search Directory

Searches the Google Workspace domain directory for profiles and contacts matching a query. Only available for Google Workspace users with the `directory.readonly` scope. The domain admin must have enabled external contact and profile sharing.

list_contacts

List Contacts

Lists the authenticated user's contacts with pagination support. Returns contacts sorted by the specified order. Use the `pageToken` from a previous response to fetch the next page.

update_contact_group

Update Contact Group

Updates the name or client data of an existing user-defined contact group. System contact groups cannot be renamed.

delete_contact_group

Delete Contact Group

Deletes a user-defined contact group. Optionally also deletes the contacts that are members of the group. System contact groups cannot be deleted.

delete_contact

Delete Contact

Permanently deletes a contact from the authenticated user's Google Contacts. This action cannot be undone.

search_contacts

Search Contacts

Searches the authenticated user's contacts by name, email address, phone number, or other fields. Returns matching contacts ranked by relevance.

batch_modify_contacts

Batch Modify Contacts

Creates, updates, deletes, or gets multiple Google contacts in one People API request. Create, update, and get accept up to 200 contacts; delete accepts up to 500.

manage_contact_photo

Manage Contact Photo

Updates or deletes the photo for a contact in the authenticated user's Google Contacts.

get_my_profile

Get My Profile

Retrieves the authenticated Google user's People profile. Available names, email addresses, photos, organizations, phone numbers, and biographies depend on the granted scopes.

Connect Google Contacts to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable Google Contacts in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the Google Contacts MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load Google Contacts tools.

Run Google Contacts through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give Google Contacts and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use Google Contacts tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

More integrations teams use with Google Contacts

Slack

Slack: connect with bot OAuth or user OAuth to work with messages, conversations, search, files, Canvases, Lists, profiles, reactions, reminders, and workspace productivity settings.

Salesforce

Manage CRM data including Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and custom objects. Create, read, update, and delete records. Query data using SOQL and search across objects using SOSL. Perform bulk data operations for large-scale imports, exports, and migrations. Execute composite requests to batch multiple operations in a single API call. Access analytics, reports, and dashboards. Manage files and attachments associated with records. Interact with Chatter feeds, posts, and groups for social collaboration. Manage org metadata including custom objects, fields, layouts, and workflows. Query data using GraphQL for precise data retrieval across related objects.

Apolloio

Search and prospect B2B contacts and companies from a database of over 275 million people and 70 million organizations. Enrich people and company data with emails, phone numbers, and firmographic details. Create and manage contacts, accounts, deals, and tasks. Add contacts to email sequences and manage sequence statuses. Log and search call records. Perform bulk operations for contact creation, account creation, task creation, and data enrichment.

Sharepoint

Manage SharePoint sites, document libraries, lists, and files. Create, read, update, and delete lists and list items with custom columns. Resolve site users to numeric Person/Group LookupId values. Upload, download, move, copy, and version files in document libraries. Search across sites, files, folders, lists, and list items using Microsoft Search. Manage permissions at site, list, and item levels with granular access control. Define and manage content types and site columns. Retrieve site properties and search for sites across Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Outlook

Send, read, reply to, forward, and manage email messages in user mailboxes. Organize messages into folders, apply categories, flags, and importance levels. Manage file and item attachments. Create, update, delete, and respond to calendar events and meetings. Find available meeting times, manage attendees, handle recurrence, and work with shared or delegated calendars. Create, read, update, and delete contacts, organize them into contact folders, and manage contact photos. Manage tasks and task lists via Microsoft To Do, including due dates, reminders, recurrence, and checklist items. Support for Focused Inbox, @-mentions, mail tips, send-on-behalf, and send-as capabilities.

Hubspot

Create, read, update, and delete CRM objects including contacts, companies, deals, tickets, and custom objects. Manage associations between CRM records. Track engagements such as calls, emails, meetings, notes, and tasks. Send transactional and marketing emails, manage campaigns, and handle subscription preferences. Build and manage marketing workflows, sequences, and automation actions. Manage CMS content including blog posts, landing pages, and HubDB tables. Handle commerce data including products, orders, invoices, quotes, and payments. Create and manage contact lists for segmentation. Configure deal, ticket, and order pipelines with custom stages. Search and filter CRM records. Bulk import and export CRM data. Manage users, teams, and account settings.

Technical notes for Google Contacts

Create, read, update, and delete contacts with rich data fields including names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, organizations, birthdays, and notes. Search contacts by name, email, or phone number. Manage contact groups (labels) by creating, updating, and listing groups and their members. Access "Other contacts" automatically saved by Google. Browse Google Workspace directory profiles. Retrieve authenticated user profile information and public Google profile data. Manage contact photos.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting Google Contacts to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. How many tools does the Google Contacts MCP server have?
    The Google Contacts MCP server exposes 19 tools, including List Contact Groups, Update Contact, Search Other Contacts. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. Yes. Google Contacts has 1 triggers you can use to start workflows from Google Contacts events.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the Google Contacts MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use Google Contacts and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the Google Contacts MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

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