Dropbox
by Dropbox
Search Dropbox, read file contents, organise folders and create sharing links from your AI assistant. 19 tools, OAuth sign-in, eight granular scopes, works with any MCP client.
Verified connector
Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.
Connection checked by Agentman on .
Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.
Connect Dropbox via MCP
https://mcp.dropbox.com/claude_app_mcpWorks in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.
Dropbox Tools & Capabilities (19)
Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.
Limits
- Consent is all-or-nothing. The connector's OAuth descriptor names eight scopes and Dropbox does not offer per-scope selection on this resource. You cannot grant reading while withholding
sharing.writeorfiles.content.write. - No permanent deletion, and no restore either.
files.permanent_deleteis not requested, so the connector cannot purge anything. The 19 tools also contain no restore or revision-listing tool, so undoing a delete means going to dropbox.com yourself. - Generated files are text-only. Dropbox states Claude-generated content saves only as text-based types, not as images or PDFs.
- Admin approval gates the whole connector. Organisations must allow the Dropbox app or plugin in Claude before members can connect it, and an administrator can remove it afterwards.
- Team and shared-folder policy can override a link's requested visibility, per Dropbox's API spec — so the audience a link ends up with is not solely the connector's decision.
- Version history excludes web-based files such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Microsoft Office Online files, so the recovery guarantees above do not extend to them.
- No tool schemas or safety annotations were read. The endpoint returned an authentication challenge, so parameter-level detail and
readOnlyHint/destructiveHintvalues are unverified. Tool names come from Anthropic's directory; behaviour is inferred from Dropbox's published API spec and scope declaration. download_linkis unresolved. No Dropbox document states whether it returns a temporary read link or creates a shared one, so it is not counted as read-only.
Frequently asked questions
Can the Dropbox connector permanently delete a file?
No. The connector never requests the files.permanent_delete scope, which Dropbox's authorization server advertises and which its API spec requires for its permanently_delete route. The delete tool maps to an ordinary soft delete under files.content.write, so removed items land in Deleted files. Dropbox keeps them at least 30 days, longer on Professional and team plans.
Can Claude make my private Dropbox file public?
It can create a shared link, and that is the connector's most consequential action. Dropbox's help article states recipients must request access before viewing, so a link is not open publication. But sharing.write is one of eight scopes granted together, so approving the connector approves link creation for every file you can already reach.
Can the connector read the contents of my files, or only file names?
It reads contents. The connector requests files.content.read alongside files.metadata.read, and Dropbox's help article says Claude can bring supported Dropbox content into conversations. That covers whatever you store, at whatever sensitivity. Search and folder listing use the metadata scope; previewing and fetching a document use the content scope.
Does moving a file in Dropbox through Claude lose anything?
No. A move is recorded in version history rather than performed as a delete plus a re-upload, so the file keeps its revisions. Dropbox's version history documentation lists renames and moves among the changes it records. Retention runs 30 days on Basic, Plus and Family, 180 days on Professional and Business, and 365 days on Enterprise.
Can Claude save images or PDFs it generates to Dropbox?
No. Dropbox's help article states Claude-generated content can only be saved as text-based file types such as .txt, .md, .html and .py, and cannot be saved as binary types including images and PDFs. The ChatGPT plugin article lists a different text set for that product: .txt, .md, .csv, .json and .xml.
Why can't I connect Dropbox to Claude?
Three checks resolve most failures, per Dropbox's help article. Confirm you are signing in to the correct Dropbox account, since paired accounts make this easy to get wrong. Check whether an administrator has blocked the Dropbox app or plugin. Then confirm the Claude experience you are using supports connectors at all.
Sources
- Dropbox Help Center, How to connect Dropbox to Claude (updated 2026-08-07) (retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-07
- Dropbox Help Center, Connect and use the Dropbox plugin for ChatGPT (updated 2026-08-07) (retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-07
- Dropbox Help Center, Restore and recover deleted files or folders (retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Dropbox Help Center, Dropbox version history overview (retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Dropbox official API spec,
files.stoneandsharing.stone(retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-21 - Live OAuth posture check: authentication challenge at the endpoint naming its RFC 9728 descriptor, and the descriptor's eight scopes at
mcp.dropbox.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/claude_app_mcp(2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-21 - Dropbox authorization server metadata, 39 advertised scopes (retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Anthropic Connectors Directory entry (retrieved 2026-08-21) · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Dropbox support — · Privacy
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Open in Agentman StudioServer Info
- Category
- Productivity
- Developer
- Dropbox
- Tools
- 19
- Domain
- mcp.dropbox.com
Using Claude Desktop or another MCP client? Setup docs — the connection URL above works anywhere.