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Google Chat

Sends automated updates to team spaces, monitors conversations for specific triggers, and manages memberships and space organization across your organization.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Google Chat integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Google Chat calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Google Chat data, across all 36 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Google Chat access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Google Chat, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Google Chat is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Google Chat.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Google Chat action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Google Chat, and when to use it.

Create Message
Use this to send a text message to a specific Google Chat space or direct message.
Create Space
Use this to start a new named space for a project or team collaboration.
List Messages
Pull recent messages from a space to analyze conversation history or find specific info.
List Spaces
Pull a list of all spaces the user belongs to for routing messages to the right room.
Find Direct Message
Search for an existing one on one chat space with a specific user by their ID.
Update Message
Edit the text of a previously sent message to keep status updates current.
List Space Members
Pull a list of all users and bots currently in a specific space.
Delete Member from Space
Remove a user or bot from a space when they no longer need access.
Create Reaction
Add an emoji reaction to a message to signal acknowledgement or approval.
Update Member
Change a member role from member to manager within a space.
Get Message
Pull full metadata and content for a single specific message.
Setup Space
Create a new space and add multiple members in one operation.
Create Custom Emoji
Creates a custom emoji in Google Chat for use within an organization. Use this action when you need to add a custom emoji that can be used by members of your Google Workspace organization. The emoji will be available in Google Chat after cr
Create section
Creates a custom section in Google Chat for organizing conversations in the navigation panel. Use when you need to create a new custom section to organize spaces and direct messages in the user's Chat sidebar.
Delete Custom Emoji
Deletes a custom emoji from Google Chat. By default, users can only delete custom emojis they created. Emoji managers assigned by the administrator can delete any custom emoji in the organization. Use this action when you need to permanentl
Delete Message
Deletes a message from a Google Chat space. Use this action when you need to remove a message that is no longer needed, was posted in error, or is outdated. App authentication can only delete messages created by the calling Chat app. User a
Delete Reaction
Deletes a reaction to a message. Use when you need to remove a reaction that was previously added to a message. Users can only delete their own reactions. This action is irreversible, once the reaction is deleted, it cannot be recovered.
Delete section
Deletes a custom section from Google Chat by its ID. This action is irreversible, once a section is deleted, it cannot be recovered. If the section contains items (such as spaces), they are moved to Google Chat's default sections and are no
Delete space
Deletes a named space from Google Chat. Always performs a cascading delete, which means that the space's child resources like messages and memberships are also deleted. Use this action when you need to permanently remove a Google Chat space
Find Group Chats
Finds all group chat spaces that contain exactly the calling user and the specified users. This action uses the Google Chat Developer Preview API to search for GROUP_CHAT spaces whose human memberships contain exactly the calling user and t
Get Chat Space Member
Returns details about a membership in a space. Use this action when you need to retrieve information about a specific member's relationship with a Google Chat space, including their role, state, and user details.
Get Space
Returns details about a specific Google Chat space including configuration, membership count, and access settings. Use this action when you need to retrieve information about a specific space in Google Chat, such as getting the space's disp
Get Space Notification Setting
Gets the notification settings for a user in a specific space. Use when you need to retrieve the caller's space notification setting, including whether notifications are muted and what type of notifications are enabled. Requires user authen
Get space read state
Returns details about a user's read state within a space. Use this action when you need to identify which messages in a space have been read or unread by the user.
Get thread read state
Returns details about a user's read state within a thread. Use this action when you need to identify which messages in a specific thread have been read or unread by the user.
List custom emojis
Lists custom emojis visible to the authenticated user in Google Chat. Use this action when you need to retrieve all custom emojis available in Google Chat for the authenticated user. This is useful for displaying available emojis, filtering
List reactions on a message
Lists all reactions on a specific message in a Google Chat space. Use when you need to retrieve all emoji reactions (likes, thumbs up, hearts, etc.) that users have added to a message. This action is read only and does not modify any data.
List Section Items
Lists all items (such as spaces) within a specified section of a user's Google Chat. Use when you need to retrieve all items grouped under a section in Google Chat, or when implementing pagination to fetch all items across multiple pages. S
List Sections
Lists all sections available to the authenticated user in Google Chat. Use this action when you need to retrieve all sections for organizing conversations in the navigation panel. Sections include custom sections created by the user and sys
List Space Events
Lists events from a Google Chat space. Use when you need to retrieve historical events such as new messages, membership changes, or reactions from a specific Google Chat space. The filter parameter is required and must specify event type fi

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven operates using the permissions granted via the Google Workspace OAuth flow. When you connect your account, you specify the scopes the agent can access. If you authorize it to manage spaces, the agent can create and delete them. If you only grant message access, it can only read and write messages. It is important to note that the agent can only perform actions that the authenticated user has the right to do. For example, if a user is not a space manager, the agent cannot use the Update Member action to change roles for other people in that space because the underlying Google API will reject the request.
Ceven can only read messages in spaces where it has been explicitly granted access or where the authenticated user has member permissions. In the case of app authentication, the app must be added to the space before it can see any messages or events. For user authenticated workflows, the agent sees what the user sees. It does not have a global backdoor into your entire organization. You can restrict the agent to specific spaces by managing the membership of those spaces, ensuring that sensitive conversations remain private and are not pulled into any automated workflow context unless you intentionally add the agent.
Yes, Google Chat imposes strict rate limits to prevent spam and API abuse. If a workflow attempts to send hundreds of messages in a few seconds, Google will return a 429 Too Many Requests error. Ceven handles this by implementing an exponential backoff strategy, which means the agent will wait a short period before retrying the request. To avoid these limits, we recommend using the Update Message action to keep a single status post current rather than sending a new message for every small update. This approach is cleaner for the users and stays well within the API quotas.
Yes, Ceven can create and manage custom emojis via the API. This is useful for creating automated signals, such as a specific icon that appears when a build fails or a project is approved. The agent can upload the emoji and make it available to the organization. However, keep in mind that deleting custom emojis is often restricted to the original creator or an organization administrator. If the agent created the emoji, it can generally delete it, but it cannot remove emojis created by other users unless the account connected to Ceven has the necessary administrator privileges.
Ceven can interact with threads by referencing the thread ID of a message. When the agent creates a message, it can specify the parent message to ensure the reply stays within a thread rather than starting a new conversation in the main space. This is critical for keeping incident logs or project discussions organized. If a workflow is monitoring a space, it can track the state of a specific thread and only trigger actions when a reply is posted to that specific conversation, preventing the agent from reacting to unrelated chatter happening elsewhere in the same space.
The agent can manage custom sections in your sidebar to keep your workspace tidy. It can create new sections, move spaces between them, and rename them. For example, a workflow could automatically move all spaces tagged as completed into an archive section at the end of the month. This is handled through a series of manage actions that interact with the user's personal navigation panel. Because these sections are user specific, the organization the agent creates will only be visible to the account that authorized the connection, not to every member of the space.
If a space is deleted, all associated messages, memberships, and metadata are permanently removed by Google. Ceven does not maintain a separate backup of your chat history. If a workflow was relying on a specific space ID, that workflow will begin to fail with a not found error. The agent can be configured to notify you when a resource it is tracking disappears, allowing you to update your workflow logic or recreate the space. Because this is a cascading delete on the Google side, there is no way for the agent to recover the lost data.
Ceven can read and update notification settings for the authenticated user within specific spaces. This means you can build a workflow that mutes noisy channels during your focus hours and unmutes them during your on call rotation. The agent calls the Update Space Notification Setting action to change the notification level from all messages to only mentions or completely muted. This allows for a dynamic environment where your communication settings shift based on your current calendar status or the urgency of ongoing system alerts without you having to click through settings menus.

Alternatives to Google Chat

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