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Drives and files

Última atualização 27 de maio de 2026

A Drive is a container for related Chats and the files that go with them. Every user has a default Drive called My Drive; you can create additional Project Drives to organize work by project, deal, or research area, and share them with teammates.

My Drive vs Project Drives

  • My Drive is private to you and cannot be shared. Chats started by email or New Chat land here unless you specify another Drive. It’s the right home for one-off questions and personal work that doesn’t belong to a project.
  • Project Drives are the only Drives that can be shared. You create them deliberately, give them a name, and invite the people who need access. They’re the right home for any work involving more than one person — and for any work you might ever want to share.

The sidebar shows My Drive at the top and Project Drives below.

Note

If you start work in My Drive and later realize a teammate needs to see it, you’ll need to create a Project Drive and move the relevant Chats and files there. To avoid that, start a Project Drive at the beginning whenever there’s any chance of collaboration.

Drives isolate context

Project Drives don’t just organize files — they narrow the agent’s context to the work inside that Drive. A chat in your “Acme due diligence” Drive only sees the files in Acme, not the files in your other deals. This makes Project Drives the right unit for any work that needs to stay separate:

  • Per-deal isolation — create one Drive per deal so analysis on Acme can’t accidentally pull in numbers from Beta Corp.
  • Per-client or per-fund separation — keep work for different counterparties or strategies from cross-contaminating.
  • Sensitive work — isolate confidential material from your day-to-day Drive.

If you want the agent to draw on something from another Drive, upload it (or import it) into the current Drive. Public sources like SEC Filings and Web aren’t scoped to a Drive — they’re available everywhere you toggle them on.

Create a Drive

Click New Drive in the sidebar. Give it a name (e.g. “Q3 earnings review” or “Acme due diligence”). The Drive opens immediately and is private until you share it.

Share a Drive

Only Project Drives can be shared — My Drive is personal and the Share button isn’t available on it. To share work that’s currently in your My Drive, create a Project Drive and move the Chats and files there first.

Open the Project Drive and click Share to open the Share Drive dialog. There are two things to configure:

Per-person access. Add teammates by email and pick a role:

  • Viewer — can read chats and files. Cannot edit or start new chats in the Drive.
  • Editor — can do everything a Viewer can, plus start new chats and edit files.

General access. Choose one of:

  • Restricted Access — only people you’ve added by email can see the Drive.
  • Anyone with the link — anyone with the URL can view (read-only).
  • Anyone in your enterprise with the link — anyone on your team can view (shown only when you’re on a team).
Note

General access controls who can find the Drive via a link. Per-person access controls who can edit. Adding an Editor on a Restricted Drive is the most common pattern for team collaboration.

Filter your Drive list

From the Drives page, the All / Private / Public / Shared filters narrow the list:

  • Private — Drives only you can see.
  • Public — Drives set to Anyone with the link.
  • Shared — Drives shared with at least one other person.

Upload files

You can drag files straight onto a Drive’s Files tab or onto a Chat’s composer. Compound copies them into the Drive, makes them available as context for any Chat in that Drive, and starts versioning from the upload.

Supported file types include:

  • Spreadsheets — Excel (.xlsx, .xlsm) and tabular (.csv, .tsv)
  • Documents — Word (.docx, .doc)
  • Presentations — PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt)
  • PDFs
  • Plain text — .txt, .md, .html
  • Images — .png, .jpg, .webp
  • Audio and video — common formats
Note

Files live in the Drive, not in a single Chat. Once uploaded, they’re available to every Chat in that Drive — you don’t have to re-upload for each new conversation.

For files you don’t want to upload by hand (or that live in Google Drive already), see Connectors and data sources.

Browse files

Inside a Drive, switch between the Files and Chats tabs:

  • Files lists every file in the Drive — the ones you uploaded and the ones the agent created or edited.
  • Chats lists every conversation in the Drive.

The Files tab includes search across filenames, and you can open any file in Canvas View or download it in its native format.

Versions

Every file in a Drive has a full version history. Open a file in Canvas View and click Versions to see every saved state. From the version list you can:

  • Click any prior version to preview it.
  • Click Save this version as the latest (“Version Up”) to restore an older state as the current version.
  • Click Exit review to return to the latest version without changing anything.

Versions are created automatically every time the agent makes an edit, and every time you manually save.

What to read next

  • Collaboration — the model behind sharing: when to share a Drive vs a Chat snapshot, and how access levels work.
  • Chats and the AI agent — how conversations and agent edits work inside a Drive.
  • Enterprise — team-level controls for members, roles, and audit.