Dropbox

Search Dropbox, read file contents, organise folders and create sharing links from your AI assistant.

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What the Dropbox connector does

The Dropbox MCP server connects your Dropbox account to Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP-compatible agent. Nineteen tools search your files, read their contents, organise folders, save assistant-generated text, create sharing links and collect uploads through file requests. Sign-in is OAuth, and the connector requests eight named Dropbox scopes rather than blanket account access.

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Dropbox tools (19)

  • check_job_status
  • copy
  • create_file
  • create_file_request
  • create_folder
  • create_shared_link
  • delete
  • download_link
  • fetch
  • file_preview
  • get_file_metadata
  • get_file_request
  • get_shared_link_metadata
  • list_file_requests
  • list_folder
  • list_shared_links
  • move
  • search
  • who_am_i

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.write or files.content.write.
  • No permanent deletion, and no restore either. files.permanent_delete is 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/destructiveHint values are unverified. Tool names come from Anthropic's directory; behaviour is inferred from Dropbox's published API spec and scope declaration.
  • download_link is 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.

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