What can an AI agent do with
View and edit calendar events?
The agent can see, create, change and delete events on all your calendars. It can also send invites, updates and cancellations to your guests.
How to spot it
On a Google Workspace connection or settings screen, this is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.
With it, an agent can
- See every event on your calendars
- Create new events and add guests
- Move or change existing events
- Delete events
- Email invites, updates or cancellations to guests
It cannot, on its own
- Change who your calendars are shared with
- Delete whole calendars
What a bad day looks like
A confused agent could cancel or move real client appointments and email the change to every guest.
Set it up safer
- Ask whether it can keep bookings in a separate calendar it creates, using https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.app.created.
- If it only needs your free times, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.freebusy is enough.
- Ask for an approval step before it changes or cancels an existing appointment.
Ask the company selling the agent
- Will it email my guests when it creates, moves or cancels an event?
- Can I approve changes to existing appointments first?
- Which of my calendars will it touch?
Source
Checked against Google Workspace documentation on 2026-09-28. All Google Workspace permissions →
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