[ximeng]

LLMs can handle Google drive perfectly well with a service account, including the Google drive specific quirks through the API. It could be helpful to expose via a file system rather than a custom API if you wanted a different interface than Google already provides, but this wouldn’t be driven by the limitations of the LLM.

[jakobem]

In terms of ergonomics, I’d say a filesystem is more intuitive for an agent than the Google Drive API even if it can handle both. Hard to argue without building an eval set and evaluating both, though.

[ximeng]

I’ve been doing this recently and for the basics agents had no problem with the API apart from the weird behaviour of shared drives needing a special flag to handle them. This could probably be mapped to a file system in a way that wouldn’t trip up an agent, but at the expense of losing the Google drive specific functionality. A trade off, not much better or worse per se, but with the added complexity of the FUSE layer.

[outofpaper]

The less juggling of concepts thr more effective any problem solver cam be.