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Q4 2025 Developer Roundup: AI Agents, Custom Chat Workflows, and the Future of Apps Script

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The final quarter of 2025 has been a transformative period for the Google Workspace ecosystem, centred on the evolution of “Agentic” workflows. With the transition of Google Workspace Flows into the newly branded Google Workspace Studio, developers now have a centralised platform for building AI-powered automations. From deep Chat customisation to enhanced Meet artifacts, here’s a roundup of the key updates from October, November, and December that you need to know about.

Google Workspace Studio & Add-ons

The most significant shift this quarter is the general availability of Google Workspace Studio (formerly Workspace Flows). This platform allows developers to build AI agents that automate everyday work across the ecosystem.

  • Studio Extensions: Developers can now build Google Workspace Add-ons that extend Studio, allowing for custom logic and integrations within AI-driven processes (this feature is in “Limited Preview” likely due to the extended rollout period for Workspace Studio).
  • Dialogflow Integration: In a new developer preview, Chat apps built as Google Workspace add-ons can now use Dialogflow CX and Dialogflow ES, enabling more sophisticated natural language conversations within the Workspace interface.

Google Chat API: Deep Personalization

The Chat API received continued substantial updates focused on helping users organise information and enhancing app interactivity.

  • Custom Sections: A major developer preview now allows the Chat API to programmatically create and manage custom sections. Developers can now create, delete, and position these sections to organise conversations in a personalised view.
  • Membership Roles: Membership management has been refined with the introduction of new role types. In the Chat UI, existing space managers are now Owners, and a new Manager role (Role Assistant Manager) has been added to help administer spaces.
  • Rich Links and Accessories: Generally available updates include support for reading rich links to Gmail threads and the ability for Chat apps to include interactive accessory widgets in private messages.

Google Meet: Working with Artifacts

Real-time data accessibility was a core focus for Meet this quarter, particularly around the Developer Preview Program.

  • Smart Notes Retrieval: You can now retrieve smart notes files in a conference record using the get and list methods on the smartNotes resource.
  • Event Subscriptions: Calendar invitees can now receive started and transcript generated events through the Google Workspace Events API.
  • Meeting Identification: New fields for phoneAccess and gatewaySipAccess have been added to the spaces resource to help identify and join meeting spaces.

Google Drive API

  • Comment and Reply Events: In a new developer preview, developers can now subscribe to comment and reply events in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This is a powerful feature for building reactive applications that monitor file collaboration in real-time.

Gmail & Calendar: Ownership and Insights

  • Postmaster Tools v2: The Gmail API v1 now offers a developer preview for Postmaster Tools v2. This includes compliance status data and the queryDomainStats method for flexible querying.
  • Secondary Calendar Ownership: As of November, secondary calendars have moved to a single data-owner model. This change restricts the ability to delete or manage secondary calendars to the designated data owner, preventing unintended actions across organisations.

The Road Ahead

This quarter has shown a clear trajectory toward more intelligent, “agentic” integrations within Google Workspace. From the rollout of Google Workspace Studio to the granular control provided by new Chat and Drive events, the platform is becoming increasingly responsive to automated workflows.

It will be exciting to see how the community uses these new capabilities in the coming months. As for the future of Apps Script, Q1 2026 I think will be very exciting, stay tuned!!!

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Q3 2025 Developer Roundup: Chat App Authentication, Granular Control and More

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The third quarter of 2025 has been a busy one, with a host of updates across various APIs. This quarter, there has been a strong focus on enhancing app authentication, improving API capabilities, and providing more granular control for Google Drive. Here’s a roundup of the key updates from July, August, and September that you need to know about.

Chat API

The Chat API has received a number of significant updates, with a strong emphasis on expanding the capabilities of Chat apps through app authentication. In a new developer preview, several methods, including those for getting and listing space events, now support app authentication with administrator approval. This allows apps to act on behalf of a user who has granted consent, opening up new possibilities for automation and integration.

In addition to the new authentication features, the Chat API now allows for the creation of carousels in card messages, providing a richer and more interactive user experience. We’ve also seen an increase in per-space quota limits for writing messages and reactions, which will be a welcome change for high-traffic apps.

Other notable updates for the Chat API include the ability to quote messages, read metadata for various chip types, and the general availability of building Chat apps as Google Workspace Add-ons.

Google Workspace Admin SDK

The Admin SDK has seen several important updates in Q3, particularly within the Reports API. Developers can now get activity events forGmail andGemini in Workspace Apps, providing greater insight into how these tools are being used within an organisation.

A key feature for Drive management is the introduction of activity events for pre-fetched content, allowing administrators to better monitor and understand data access patterns.

Gmail API

The Gmail API has introduced Deal Cards in the Promotions tab, allowing developers to create more engaging and actionable promotional content. For organisations using client-side encryption, the API now supports smart cards, enhancing security for sensitive communications.

Google Drive API

A significant change has been made to how download, print, and copy restrictions are applied, giving owners and organisers more granular control over content. Previously, these restrictions could only be applied to users with reader roles, but now, owner and organizer roles can extend these restrictions to users with writer permissions as well.

For individual files, developers should now use the itemDownloadRestriction field, with the corresponding capabilities.canChangeItemDownloadRestriction field available to check modification permissions. Similar controls have been introduced for shared drives, using the downloadRestriction field within the Restrictions object. While the previous copyRequiresWriterPermission field remains, its functionality has changed, and Google recommends using the new system to manage content restrictions.

For developers working with events, the Drive API, in conjunction with the Google Workspace Events API, now supports subscriptions to a variety of Drive events, including file additions, moves, edits, and access proposals. This is a powerful feature for building reactive and real-time applications.

Google Workspace Events API

The Events API has been a major focus this quarter, with new features for both Chat and Drive. As mentioned the ability to subscribe to Drive events is a significant step forward, enabling developers to build applications that respond in real-time to changes in a user’s Drive.

For Chat, the Events API now allows apps to subscribe to space events using app authentication with administrator approval, further expanding the capabilities of Chat apps.

Google Workspace Add-ons

The big news for add-on developers is the ability to build Google Chat apps as Google Workspace Add-ons, which is now generally available. This provides a unified framework for extending the functionality of Google Workspace applications.

Key Deprecations and Breaking Changes

As with any quarter, there have been some deprecations and breaking changes to be aware of:

It will be exciting to see what the community builds with these new tools!