MCP connector: Google Calendar

The Google Calendar MCP connector is a pre-built integration that lets Claude read and interact with your Google Calendar data directly inside a conversation on claude.ai. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard Anthropic uses to connect AI assistants to external services; the Google Calendar connector is one of several pre-built 'Connectors' built on this standard. Once you authenticate with your Google account, Claude can search for events, retrieve meeting details, check for scheduling conflicts, and pull calendar context into multi-step workflows — all without you leaving the chat window. Claude only queries your calendar when you explicitly ask something that requires it, and it retrieves the minimum data needed to answer. The connector is read-focused: it gives Claude visibility into your calendar so it can reason about your schedule, surface meeting details, and combine that context with information from other connected tools such as Gmail or Google Drive. Any actions that would change your calendar (creating or editing events) depend on what permissions are granted through the OAuth flow; the official Anthropic help documentation does not describe write access as a confirmed, stable capability, so users should verify current permissions at setup time.