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.