Grok Bot Gmail connector (user-Gmail) rewrites every link into google.com/url redirects on create_draft and send_message

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Grok Bot

Describe the Bug

Every link I put in an email through the Gmail connector is saved and sent as a Google redirect instead of the real address. For example, Support – Pet Tutor by Smart Animal Training Systems becomes Redirect Notice. The rewritten link appears both as the visible text and as the actual link target, so customers receive the redirect, can hit Google’s “you’re leaving” warning, and save the wrong link. Links that contain placeholders like come out broken. Emails I write myself in Gmail on the same account are not affected. We use this mailbox for customer support, so every Welcome letter and support reply with a link goes out this way.
example:
Link: https://cursor.com
Link: Redirect Notice

Steps to Reproduce

On Sep 29, 2026, I had my Grok Bot create five test drafts to myself, then read each one back with get_draft in RAW format:

Plain-text body with a full https:// URL: wrapped.
htmlBody with : the href was wrapped.
htmlBody link with different visible text, plus a plain-text alternative: both parts wrapped.
A bare domain with no https://: Gmail turned it into a link and wrapped it (as http://).
htmlBody with an HTML-entity-encoded href: still wrapped. Sending through send_message also wraps links. A message sent on Sep 28 arrived with both of its links rewritten and broken.

Expected Behavior

Links are stored and sent exactly as written, the same as when composing in Gmail.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Gok Bot 0.62.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Not model-related. The rewriting happens in the connector.

Additional Information

Several public GitHub reports describe the same behavior with other AI assistants’ Gmail connectors, starting around June 5, 2026 and still open, for example anthropics/claude-code#66010 and #94247. A commenter there reported that a community Gmail tool that calls the Gmail API directly produced clean links.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey @Wes_Anderson, thanks for the report and for the test drafts you ran.

You’re right that this happens in the Gmail connection itself, not in how Grok Bot writes the email: links sent through the connector are saved with Google’s redirect wrapper, whether they come in as plain text or as HTML. This is a known issue we’re already tracking, and I’ve added your report to it.

In the meantime, for any email that contains links, the safest option is to have Grok Bot write the text in chat (or save the draft without the links) and then paste the message or add the links yourself in Gmail before sending. As you noticed, emails composed directly in Gmail keep their links exactly as written. I’d also avoid having the bot send link-containing emails directly with send_message until this is sorted out.

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I have the same problem in cursor Agents window when writing gmail draft. I am also on Windows. Is this problem just with windows, or any platform?

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Same problem here as well! Hopefully this will get fixed soon.