Google Forms MCP

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A1 Google Forms MCP lets an AI app build and manage Google Forms in plain language. Create a survey, choose its questions, publish it when ready, read answers and use notifications for new submissions.

It uses the Google Forms API with your Google account. It distinguishes a draft form from a published form and makes the limits of the Forms API explicit instead of implying that every form task is possible.

• 13 tools. Inspect form structure and responses, create and edit forms and questions, manage publishing, and configure Pub/Sub watches.
• Publish deliberately. Forms made through the API start unpublished, so they cannot collect responses until you publish them.
• Responses stay intact. The API can read responses but cannot create or edit them; the server has no tool that submits answers.
• Minimal Google scopes. It uses forms.body and forms.responses.readonly, without broad Drive access.

Start with a read-only question:

Show me yesterday’s responses to the customer feedback form and summarize the free-text answers.

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See it work in a minute

You: Show me the questions and response settings of the customer feedback form.

Assistant: Shows the form, its items, whether it is published and whether it accepts responses. Nothing changes.

You: Prepare a required 1–5 rating question called “How was your experience?” after the first question.

Assistant: Shows the target form, position and proposed question, then asks for confirmation before adding it.

You: Confirm.

Assistant: Adds the question to the form. It does not publish or close the form unless you ask separately.

Contents

• Quick start
• What you can ask it to do
• How a form changes
• What can change
• Getting access
• Configuration
• Data, limits and background work
• Technical documentation
• Support

Quick start

You need Node.js 20+, a Google account and OAuth credentials from a Google Cloud project with the Google Forms API enabled.

1. Prepare Google OAuth access.
2. Add the server to your AI app.
3. Ask the read-only question above.

codex mcp add google-forms \
  --env GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id \
  --env GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret \
  --env GOOGLE_FORMS_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_refresh_token \
  -- npx -y mcp-google-forms@latest

codex mcp list

claude mcp add \
  --env GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id \
  --env GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret \
  --env GOOGLE_FORMS_REFRESH_TOKEN=your_refresh_token \
  --transport stdio --scope user google-forms \
  -- npx -y mcp-google-forms@latest

claude mcp list

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-forms": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-google-forms@latest"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret",
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your_refresh_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-forms": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-google-forms@latest"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret",
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your_refresh_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "google-forms": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-google-forms@latest"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_ID": "${input:forms_client_id}",
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_CLIENT_SECRET": "${input:forms_client_secret}",
        "GOOGLE_FORMS_REFRESH_TOKEN": "${input:forms_refresh_token}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "forms_client_id", "description": "Google OAuth client ID" },
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "forms_client_secret", "description": "Google OAuth client secret", "password": true },
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "forms_refresh_token", "description": "Google OAuth refresh token", "password": true }
  ]
}

What you can ask it to do

Inspect a survey and its answers

• Show this form’s questions, response settings and responder link.
• How many answers arrived since Monday? Summarize the free-text feedback.
• Show one response by ID.

Build and improve a form

• Create an RSVP form with name, meal preference and arrival date.
• Add a required rating, dropdown, date, time, choice or text question.
• Reorder a question or update a title, description, quiz mode or email collection.

Publish and connect notifications

• Publish a prepared form and show its responder URL.
• Stop accepting new responses without deleting the form.
• Create, renew or remove a Cloud Pub/Sub watch for new submissions.

How a form changes

1. create_form creates a form, which starts unpublished by default.
2. Questions are items, identified by their position in the form.
3. Publishing makes a form available to respondents; closing response collection leaves it published but stops new submissions.
4. Responses are a separate read-only record. The API cannot submit, edit or delete a respondent’s answer.

File-upload questions cannot be created through the Forms API, although existing file-upload items can be read. Legacy forms created before Google’s publish model may not support publishing settings.

What can change

The AI client controls confirmation prompts. The server marks reads, writes and destructive tools so the client can distinguish an inspection from a live change.

Getting access

Google Forms requires OAuth 2.0; an API key is not enough.

1. Create or select a Google Cloud project and enable Google Forms API.

2. Configure the OAuth consent screen and create a Desktop app OAuth client.

3. Authorize the Google account that owns or can edit the forms. The OAuth 2.0 Playground can obtain the refresh token when Use your own OAuth credentials is enabled.

4. Request both scopes:

   https://www.googleapis.com/auth/forms.body
   https://www.googleapis.com/auth/forms.responses.readonly
   

Testing-mode OAuth refresh tokens can expire after seven days. Publish the OAuth app, or use an Internal app in a Workspace domain, when you need long-lived access. Treat the client secret and refresh token as passwords.

Configuration

* Provide either the OAuth trio or an access token.

Data, limits and background work

• Requests go to Google Forms. The local server refreshes Google OAuth tokens and calls the Forms API. Its anonymous telemetry contains an installation ID, package version, AI client and platform versions, and tool names — never OAuth tokens, form data, tool arguments or prompts. Set ASKADS_TELEMETRY=0 to opt out.
• Google applies per-minute quotas. The documented limits are 975 reads per project, 450 list_responses calls and 375 writes. On 429, the server uses backoff; reads also retry after network and 5xx errors, while writes are not replayed after an uncertain failure.
• There is no background polling. The server runs only when called. Pub/Sub watches can notify your own infrastructure about new responses; if your AI app supports scheduled tasks, it can also check responses periodically.

Technical documentation

• MCP capability catalog — task-oriented pages for every tool.
• All tools and inputs
• Development documentation
• Publishing documentation
• Google Forms API reference

Support

Found a bug or need a scenario? Create an issue or write in Telegram.

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