Manus just expanded its Google Drive connector into a full Google Workspace integration, and the headline feature is not just broader coverage -- it is a fundamentally different level of control inside your files. The agent can now make surgical, precise edits inside Docs, Sheets, and Slides, not just create or read them.
From file viewer to document surgeon
The previous connector treated files like black boxes. It was solid for high-level tasks like creating a new report or saving a summary, but the fine-grained work -- editing review cycles, chasing comments, updating individual cells -- remained manual.
The upgrade works by integrating the Google Workspace CLI, an open-source tool published by the Google Workspace team on GitHub (though notably not an officially supported Google product), giving Manus the ability to make precise, surgical edits inside your Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Think of the difference between telling an assistant "update the deck" versus "find the slide titled Timeline, replace every [Insert Date] placeholder with the correct dates, then add a new Key Milestones slide after it with three bullet points." That second level of specificity is what is now possible.
What the connector can actually do now
Manus can now perform what the company calls "surgical edits" -- precise text replacement, paragraph insertion, cross-sheet data synthesis, and slide-by-slide presentation updates. Concretely, that breaks down into:
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