Claude in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides: the add-on where you approve every change

Claude in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides is an add-on Anthropic announced on October 6, 2026, in public beta for every paid Claude plan. It works inside your file, edits with your approval and installs from the Google Workspace Marketplace. Here is what it does in each tool and who decides the changes.

What Claude does in each Google file

According to Anthropic, the idea is that useful AI doesn't live in another tab, but in your file:

• Docs: it edits in place and proposes changes as suggestion cards you accept or dismiss.
• Sheets: it writes formulas, builds pivot tables and native charts, and can pass a range to Python and write the result back into the sheet.
• Slides: it builds slides in your deck's design and flags elements that overlap, run off the slide, or have hard-to-read text.

Who decides: you, not the AI

By default, the add-on asks for your approval before every edit (the "Ask before edits" mode). An "Accept all edits" mode also exists, which approves everything without asking. Claude's access matches your existing Google sharing permissions: it can only touch what you can already see and edit.

How to install it and who can use it

You install it from the Google Workspace Marketplace, and a Workspace admin can deploy it across the whole domain. It is in public beta for every paid Claude plan; terms can change, so check Anthropic's sources before relying on it in an important process.

How to apply it in your business?

Start with a sheet you build by hand every week: a sales report, a project tracker or a summary for your boss. Try the add-on in "Ask before edits" mode, review each change and compare how much time it saves you. If you handle sensitive information, ask your Workspace admin to decide who can install it. For more ways Claude helps with business tasks, read the full breakdown of Claude for accounting, sales and marketing.

Frequently asked questions

What is Claude in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides?

It is an Anthropic add-on that works inside your Google documents, spreadsheets and presentations, in public beta.

Who can use it?

Every paid Claude plan. It installs from the Google Workspace Marketplace.

Can it edit without my permission?

By default it asks for approval before every edit. An "Accept all edits" mode exists, but you decide whether to turn it on.

What does it do in Google Sheets?

It writes formulas, builds pivot tables and native charts, and can pass a range to Python and write the result into the sheet.

Conclusion

Claude in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides brings AI into the file where you already work, with approval by default on every edit. Tell me in the comments which sheet you build by hand each week and I'll say if Claude covers it.