Overview
Wolph Assistant is a personal assistant application operated by Rick van Hattem that helps a user work with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and related Google Workspace resources from one interface. It is designed for a small number of invited users who intentionally connect their own Google accounts and then instruct the assistant to read, summarize, draft, organize, create, update, or send content on their behalf.
The application is available by invitation and is intended for individual productivity, workflow automation, and workspace coordination. It is not a background surveillance product and it does not silently access a user’s account. Access is only available after the user authenticates with Google and grants the requested permissions.
Who It Is For
Wolph Assistant is intended for users who want one assistant layer across email, calendars, files, and documents. Typical use cases include inbox triage, reply drafting, calendar planning, meeting coordination, document lookup, document summarization, file drafting, and cross-tool workflows such as “draft a reply based on this document and schedule a follow-up meeting”.
How Gmail Access Is Used
Wolph Assistant may read Gmail messages, threads, labels, headers, metadata, drafts, and mailbox state in order to help the user search mail, summarize conversations, understand context, draft replies, send messages, file or label conversations, insert messages into the mailbox, and support user-directed mailbox organization. Some Gmail permissions are broad because the assistant needs to determine which messages and settings are relevant to the user’s instruction in real time rather than only against a fixed preselected subset.
Examples of Gmail-related features include:
- Summarizing selected or matching messages and threads.
- Drafting replies and new messages for user review.
- Sending or updating drafts after explicit user action or instruction.
- Extracting action items, dates, people, and commitments from email.
- Applying filing, labeling, or organizational actions the user requests.
- Supporting workflows that require reading message context before drafting or sending a response.
How Google Calendar Access Is Used
Wolph Assistant may read calendar lists, calendar properties, settings, free/busy information, event details, and sharing-related information in order to coordinate schedules, compare availability, propose meeting times, create events, update events, manage calendars, and carry out user-directed scheduling tasks. Calendar permissions are broad because the assistant may need to inspect multiple calendars, their metadata, and related permissions before carrying out a scheduling instruction.
Examples of Calendar-related features include:
- Checking availability across calendars a user can access.
- Creating, editing, moving, or cancelling events.
- Managing secondary calendars used for projects or planning.
- Reading calendar properties and settings needed to interpret schedule data correctly.
- Handling user-directed sharing or access-management workflows when a user asks the assistant to manage calendar collaboration.
How Google Drive and Docs Access Is Used
Wolph Assistant may read, create, edit, organize, summarize, and retrieve Google Drive files and related metadata or activity when the user asks it to work with documents and files. This includes documents stored in Drive as well as files created or edited by related Google products such as Google Meet. The configured Drive permissions are broad because the assistant may need to discover relevant files, inspect file relationships, understand activity history, or create and update files as part of a user-requested workflow.
Examples of Drive-related features include:
- Finding files that match a user request.
- Summarizing documents and extracting key information.
- Creating new files, notes, or drafts.
- Updating existing files at the user’s direction.
- Using metadata and activity information to identify the right file or understand recent changes.
- Supporting document-based workflows tied to email, meetings, and tasks.
User Control And Consent
Users choose whether to connect a Google account. After connection, Wolph Assistant uses the granted Google permissions only to provide the user-requested assistant features. Actions with external impact, such as sending email, creating or materially changing events, editing files, or changing workspace state, are intended to happen only in response to an explicit user instruction or approval flow.
Why Broad Scopes Are Requested
Wolph Assistant is intended to act as a general-purpose assistant across Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Docs. Many user requests span multiple Google services and require the assistant to first identify the relevant messages, calendars, events, files, settings, metadata, or sharing state before it can complete the requested task. More limited scopes are not always sufficient for these cross-workspace workflows, especially where the user wants the assistant to both inspect context and then take action inside the same flow.
Data Handling Summary
Wolph Assistant is designed around transient processing. Google Workspace data is processed to answer the user’s request and complete the requested action, and is not intended to be copied into a long-lived shadow database of the user’s mailbox or workspace content. Limited operational records, brief activity history, security logs, and user-request context may be retained for reliability, abuse prevention, debugging, and user support.
Security Summary
Access to Google data is tied to authenticated user accounts and granted OAuth permissions. The service uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards intended to protect connected account data, limit unauthorized access, and support incident response. Access is limited to what is needed to operate the service and support the user.
Operator And Support
Wolph Assistant is operated by Rick van Hattem. Questions about the service or Google account access can be sent to [email protected].
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Effective date: 2026-04-19
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